Strange But True

October 14th, 2005

I’m not sure if this is a marketing issue for librarians or the need more education as to what librarians do for a living (or just an ignoramus - I’m not casting judgement, I’m just curious), but the following was posted to a blog hosted at Ohio University at Zanesville:

“This is kind of strange, but our campus library director asked me to set up a blog for her and her staff so that they could dump the RSS feed into the library’s home page. I set up a WordPress blog and now they can go and post announcements to the home page via the blog. The primary advantage here is that they don’t need to know how to be web publishers, though perhaps some sort of content management feature at the site itself would be a more direct way of handling the need.”

Bolding is on my end. Whatever the issue, it looks like the Zanesville librarians have seens a need on their site and used RSS and weblogs to fix the issue. Congrats!

Strange but true: librarians get weblogs and RSS. Don’t be scared. We don’t bite!

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