Web 2.0 101 BLOG post for Week 1

In week 1 of the MLA Web 2.0 101 CE online Course I learned about BLOGs and RSS feeds. I created my first BLOG on www.blogger.com. For the RSS feeds I used Google Reader as my reader for the RSS feeds I selected. The RSS feeds I choose were table of contents (TOCs) from an EBSCOhost database for the journal Computers in Libraries, a PubMed search on Library Technical Services, Wright State University Fordham Health Sciences Blog, both of the CE course RSS feeds and then I choose to do an RSS feed from Clark Howard's website.

Blogging will take some getting use to. I do think this technology is beneficial for work environments.

I find that the TOCs RSS feed can be intimidating because the new TOCs just came out and list 91 feeds to read. I like the RSS feed concept I will need to get use to viewing them on a daily bases to keep up with them.

Here are my answers to the questions posted for week 1:
How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library? I think we could use RSS feeds in our library for our Table of Contents (TOCs) that we provide our patrons. I have in the past set them up with e-mail notifications for the Table of Contents so moving to RSS feeds for the TOCs would be the next step. How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds? Once the patrons get use to looking at another place for information they may get use to using RSS feeds. Some of our patrons like to get notification of when new articles come out on a topic and I think the RSS feed would be a great way to do this from PubMed.