RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are good for keeping up to date with areas of interest - information comes to you in the one place saving you time. I selected the following sites for my Feed:- OPAL Training Blog, Photo of the day (for something light), ABS 4 Libraries, John Oxley Library Blog and Hi Tech by Gadget Girl (Jennifer Dudley who is The Courier-Mail's technology editor).

I can see how we could use RSS Feeds at work in our staff team blog for professional development to keep up to date with library issues and new technologies.

Yarra Plenty Library has a few blogs including a Local History blog and a genealogy blog. Their genealogy blog is very good and it incorporates many useful links on the side. National Library of New Zealand has a great blog called Create Readers Blog. It is a children's and YA literature blog with an empasis on motivating and engaging young readers.

Social Networking in Libraries

I can see how libraries can use social networking to promote library activities and collections. The following are some good examples:
National Library of New Zealand uses Twitter as does Hennepin County Library .
Many libraries use Facebook for this purpose too e.g. Charlotte & Mecklenburg County .

Mashable is a great website that allows you to keep up with the latest social media developments.