Searching through blogs for RSS feeds, I liked the format of the Google blog search engine. However, searching for "school library" didn't lead to many new results besides ALA's website. At least in the first few pages of results. So, next I went to Edublog for a good librarian blog. There, I encountered Heyjude, a blog by Judy O'Connell (a librarian in Australia). She won an award from Edublog for the best librarian/ library blog in 2008 and blogs about technology and other important issues in the media specialist's world. Not only has she been a school librarian, but she is now the director of all librarian programs at Charles Stuart University! Talk about accomplished...
The best news, though, is I figured out how to click on the RSS button on a blog and add it to my iGoogle account! Yay for the new and upgraded librarian-to-be. Ms. Ferguson 2.0, if you will. Technology really is about experimentation in a librarian's world. In the top righthand corner, after clicking on the RSS button, I choose View Feed XML. This then allows me to add it to my iGoogle account.
For a librarian, utilizing RSS feeds (by generating a school library feed from a blog) would allow students and teachers to know about library policies- returns and check-outs, days of special programs, when any special events are occurring, dates of celebrations, or other information. This particular post about using RSS feeds in a library was extremely helpful, as well! As a librarian, using a RSS reader would allow me to quickly skim interesting new concepts and ideas in the blogosphere to use in my school library. I like the one tip before of how to use a RSS reader; steal a few minutes here, a few minutes there.
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