I have used rss feeds in a limited way for my own current awareness and I think it is a very useful way of getting news. I subscribe to a few medical librarianship blogs and for this assignment I've added some others that are more general, but still library-oriented. I find the reader (google reader is what I've used) to be less time consuming than keeping up with listservs, etc., although I use both. I think the key is to be very selective and monitor your subscriptions. I have deleted a few that I didn't think were that useful to me, after all.
I can see applications for RSS in providing sdi to patrons. I still need to set up my journal toc feeds since I want to do it from my work computer and I am at home today. But I would think we might be able to use this technology to replace our old paper-based tables-of-contents service. We discontinued that service because of the amount of photocopying involved, but we do have some patrons who have said they miss having it. I look forward to experimenting and will see if we might want to re-institute that service using rss. I'm enjoying this course, though I've waited until the end of the week to do my exercises and add this post. I will continue tomorrow! Thanks
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