Case studies week 4

The Kansas City Public Library provides an RSS feed for all of its subject guides while the Hennepin County Library allows users to choose to subscribe to feeds for any of a number of different subject guides or all of them. I prefer the latter approach because I want to mimimize the amount of information that I receive through RSS feeds.

The NHMCCD - RSS feeds provides a very detailed explanation of RSS including a tutorial which would really assist those who are new to RSS. I thought it was a great idea to include a sample of what is being subscribed to so that people now exactly what they are signing up for.

The Tacoma Public Library and the University of Oklahoma Libraries use RSS to advise library users of new content in their collection by subject area. This makes a lot of sense to me because this type of information doesn't easily get conveyed to library users and could really assist in promoting circulation of new acquisitions including electronic resources.

The Western Kentucky University Libraries provide RSS feeds for the different parts of their website, but you have to know what these pages contain by visiting them before subscribing to the feeds. The category "stuff" is not very informative. They've also provided a feed for "past events" which isn't likely to be updated except when material is archived and probably isn't the kind of information that anyone is interested in when it isn't current.