- Tables of contents for journals we subscribe to
- News about library classes and events
- Pulling in news feeds for certain subject areas
- New books in our collection
- Current awareness internally (esp. library tech blogs) for our staff
In the future I think we could add to this:
- Canned PubMed or other searches for subject areas in portal/subject guide pages
- Feeds for local resources of interest like new videos captured in our building (the IME Video Library - http://videos.med.wisc.edu)
- Mashups of feeds using tools like Yahoo Pipes
- Selected posts from other feeds using something like Google Reader's favorites function
Our patrons could use feeds in some similar ways and some different ways:
- The table of contents would be the same, for example, and a no-brainer
- Canned searches of specific interest to them would be very valuable (and not of much use on a shared library web page most likely)
- Feeds from health sciences blogs (esp. clinical) could be useful and efficient - current awareness for them and for us would have some overlap but would largely be different (same technique, different content)
- Feed Mashups could be mixed and matched in any number of idiosyncratic ways, so patrons could in theory get whatever they wanted
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