RSS Feeds

I have always found it very useful when I log on to the internet at home and the internet provider has a wide variety of current information available for me to access. Anything from current news nationally or internationally, weather updates, latest gossip, great travel deals etc. All this at your finger tips without the need to search. Really this is the quintessential internet for the average person who is always busy and also for those who are not comfortable finding their way around the net and need access to information quickly and easily.

RSS Feeds would enable library and council websites to promote services and events and to obtain a captive audience, so to speak, with an 'active' site that is constantly changing with the latest and greatest information. They would facilitate information access for the public in a much more user friendly manner, and perhaps gain more regular interest. It could also be a way to bring services to the fore that are somewhat lower profile. I am involved with aged services within our library and would be very keen to find ways to encourage more seniors in the community to become actively involved in the library and more aware of what is available to them. We have seniors activities all the time that can be listed along with multicultural activities and functions, childrens activities, author talks, book clubs, internet training sessions. Enough library events to be archived as an interesting blog attached to our council site one that could be accessed by the public quickly and easily. The RSS feeds are already set up to provide this access now we just need to set up the blogs. The feeds also allow our site to be an easy reference for patrons who want to access the library system quickly and easily to renew or reserve items.