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Current awareness on a shoe string: RSS at the HQC

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2008

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Neilson, Christine J.

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Haworth Press

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There is no shortage of articles describing the nature of blogs and RSS feeds and their potential use in libraries. However, articles describing the implementation and evaluation of RSS for library current awareness services and the lessons learned along the way are harder to find. This case study relates the experience of implementing an RSS feed-based current awareness service in a small special library in Canada, and the preliminary uptake and feedback of the staff it serves.

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Christine Neilson (christine.neilson@usask.ca) served as the Librarian for the Health Quality Council from September 2004 to December 2006. She is currently the Outreach Services Librarian for the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP), Health Sciences Library, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon SK, S7N 5E5. The author would like to thank Maureen Bingham, the Health Quality Council's former Director of Linkage and Exchange, for offering her insight and supporting the HQC current awareness project

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current awareness services; RSS feeds; blogs; special libraries

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Internet Reference Services Quarterly. 13(1): 57-67. DOI:10.1300/J136v.13n01_03

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Internet Reference Services Quarterly. 13(1): 57-67. DOI:10.1300/J136v.13n01_03

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