Thing 3: RSS Feeds

I have already started subscribing to RSS feeds using Outlook at work but I did also start an account at Google Reader just to see what it is like. I think I prefer Outlook's setup because it looks far less cluttered and is easy to access, but that may just be me.

On Outlook, I have subscribed to RSS feeds for Lord Fairfax Community College's New Jobs postings and for VIVA General Announcements. The new jobs postings are always interesting, esp. since I do not always realize someone is leaving his/her post or a new position has been created. Since I work with interlibrary loans, I subscribed to the VIVA RSS feed for that agency.

But for Reader I added

1) the general LFCC news feed, just to keep up with what is being posted to the public abt. LFCC

2) This Day in Virginia History because second to English, History (esp. Virginia History) is my second love.

3) Virginiana for the same reason above

4) the VCCS Online Library on Twitter (for obvious reasons, plus it does have very good information that I am interested in as a reader and lover of libraries)

5) the Library of Congress RSS feed (again for obvious reasons).

It was not exactly hard to find feeds for things in which I am interested - in fact, there are almost too many and it was hard to choose! I have seen more and more sites making RSS updates available and it is tempting to subscribe to them all. But then I will run into the same problem I run into with my listservs - I have no time to look at all of them, so I have to pick and choose.

I may go back at some point, look at what I have chosen, and either delete some and add others or just start over again. But for the purposes of this project, I have learned how to set up Google Reader and have seen its plus and minuses. So this has been a good lesson all around!