This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services

March 10th, 2005

Gerry McKiernan links to an article [PDF] he wrote for Knowledge Quest titled, “This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services”. It has very extensive resources and “further reading” section, which I would expect from Mr. Bibliography. From the penultimate parapgraph:

“Other library functions and services could also be enhanced through a broader application and implementation of web feeds. The review of newly published and forthcoming titles by selectors and bibliographers could be significantly expedited if publishers and book vendors provided feeds for individual titles and disciplines. If electronic journals syndicated their content, users could choose to receive desktop notification for all potentially relevant articles by journal title or discipline. Ideally, such services would also allow subscribers to receive personalized feeds based on a saved search strategy. Likewise, the assessment, use, and integration of search results could be significantly improved if database and OPAC vendors offered a web feed option.”

Amen!

One Comment on “This Just In: Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services”

1. Library Views 圖書館觀點 :: 圖書館進一步的RSS應用 :: March :: 2005 Says:
   March 31st, 2007 at 8:50 am

   [...] 現在已有很多的大學圖書館將RSS應用在新書通知、最新消息及網路資源上。從Library Stuff 得知Gerry McKiernan提供了 This Just In – Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services這篇文章，內容除了提到RSS及Library Blog一些較基本的資訊外，他還認為RSS可以應用在電子期刊的TOC或者是文章的review等相關訊息上，若電子資料庫廠商可以提供這些RSS Feed的話，對讀者將是一大福音。….. 註：文中有提到香港科技大學已經有提供RSS Feed了，令我迫不及待得想趕快去看看 [...]