Nancy Crossfield's article in MLA News, Keep Up To Date, Aggregate (available to MLA members only) talks about how to use RSS as a method to not only to keep up to date on information but also to draw library users to their websites. Many of us already have SDIs or saved cubby searches that are emailed to our patrons with each database update. The concept of RSS is not that much different.

In addition to a list of various pay and free RSS Aggregators, Crossfield also directs us to Karen Schneider's Getting Started with RSS: the fifteen-minute tutorial which is a great way for librarians to learn how to quickly build a blog containing RSS feeds.

Librarians interested in starting a blog featuring medical news feeds displayed on library web site also need to work with their IT people. Perhaps they have a program they prefer you to use because your library's site is their intranet. You may also have to do some negotiating and some begging, not all IT departments are exactly thrilled with hospital employees getting into "their" system.