Librarians Internet Index

When I checked this feed today, the first few links I clicked took me to the website for Librarians Internet Index instead of the website they described in the feed. I thought if that was all the feed was, it wasn't really worth watching for. But further down the list the links actually went to the advertised website. And that makes the feed interesting and worthwhile in my opinion. There's so much on the internet now it can be overwhelming trying to find info. And it can also be hard to tell if the information you're getting is reliable. The LII (I'm assuming) has done the work for you of finding good, authoritative websites from among the millions (billions? more?) sites that are out there. The feed is cool just to see what is new and different, and the website lii.org is a great tool for librarians.

RSS feeds

There was an article on the front page of my local paper today about three books being banned in a school. I thought I could go to my mom and dad's to read it, but I found out they don't get the paper anymore (they're trying to cut costs wherever they can.) So I went to bloglines to see if I could get an RSS feed of the Journal and Courier. I can! And I passed that on to my mother, who misses reading her paper every morning. I also looked around at other feeds, SLIS-related and not. The NYT book review feed is great. There's also a feed from Publisher's Weekly that looks promising. I just heard of RSS this semester in Reference class, and I've seen it all over the internet since then. I think it's a feature I'll get a lot of use out of.

Shifted Librarian

The Shifted Librarian feed seems to be updated pretty frequently, the last post was today I think, and it contains some useful information for librarians about technology. Some of the posts read like ads, like the one for Palm Pre. There are a couple of posts about Summon, but just from reading those, I have no idea what Summon is all about. I guess this feed would be most helpful for a more experienced librarian. There's a lot of jargon in the posts that I don't get. There was an interesting post about using Twitter in museums (and libraries), it makes me want to find out what Twitter is all about now. All in all, I didn't find this feed especially useful as a SLIS student.