Current awareness on a shoe string: RSS at the HQC
Date
2008
Authors
Neilson, Christine J.
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Haworth Press
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Abstract
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.
Description
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
Keywords
current awareness services; RSS feeds; blogs; special libraries
Citation
Internet Reference Services Quarterly. 13(1): 57-67. DOI:10.1300/J136v.13n01_03