During this first week long session of our Medical Library Association Web 2.0: Second Generation Web Tools course http://sns.mlanet.org/snsce/, participants learned the benefits of blogging and RSS feeds. The Discovery exercises/assignments for week one are listed on our class web page: http://sns.mlanet.org/snsce/?p=4 .
Each of us created a blog and set up subscriptions of RSS feeds from web sites of our own choice.
I created a blog called Unconventional MLibrarian and here's the link: http://unconventionalmlibrarian.blogspot.com/ . I enjoy watching my blog evolve each day, and now I realize how addictive the act of blogging can become.
I also set up some subscriptions to RSS feeds, which I thought would be interesting to health sciences librarians. Here are a few RSS Feeds I subscribe to:
- BLACKWELL SYNERGY: Obesity Reviews: Table of Contentshttp://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=m0vym&ai=ym&jc=obr&type=etoc&feed=rss
- CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response: News & Announcements http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/createrss.asp?c=135
- CDC En Espanol http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/createrss.asp?c=151
- CDC HIV/AIDS Preventionhttp://www.cdc.gov/hiv/rss/hiv.xml
- PUBMED Search for 'autism" http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/erss.cgi?rss_guid=0pl7xcKL0j7cYwBuwG_vNl60kE6oW00xYp63PxIfsRt
After this week of intense hands-on learning about Web 2.0 technologies, I feel very comfortable and confident that I can embrace any blogging challenge and create blogs for all types of libraries as one main responsibility of my reference librarian role.
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