I had every intention of whipping right through this exercise because (as we all know) RSS truly is reeeeeally simple. Instead, I found myself reading through pages and pages of news, blogs, library design success tips … and fun stuff too, for the last several hours of my Saturday morning.
One of our first steps toward creating a more dynamic and relevant public library website will be to feed our web pages from our electronic resources (online catalog and databases, digital media, etc). We can then provide subscriptions (RSS feeds) to our patrons when new or updated information of these resources is made available. This way they can be conveniently kept up-to-date.
Currently, there is an RSS Feed on our KRL Homepage only. It allows the subscriber to receive our latest featured events without having to go to the website to find out. But like I said, the plan is to implement this functionality throughout our new website.
