It wasn't as difficult as I anticipated to set up a few RSS feeds. The difficulty will be in finding time to check them daily! In theory, I think the feeds could be useful to someone who needs to check numerous blogs or websites on a regular basis. For me, I would likely be checking only a couple of sites routinely, so it would be just as quick to go directly to those sites as to log on to Bloglines.
One of my feeds is for a great site called LibraryThing. What is LibraryThing?
"LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth."
How can it be useful to libraries?
"Fully integrate LibraryThing's social data into your catalog using LibraryThing for Libraries. LTFL lets you add tag-based browsing, book recommendations, ratings, reviews and more to your OPAC, by integrating with LibraryThing and its high-quality book data.
Use a LibraryThing widget to display new books or featured books on your library's website. You'll have to create a LibraryThing account, and add the books to it. Then use one of our widgets to generate code that you can just copy and paste into your website."
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