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Well done CILIP for starting an RSS feed. But if I may be allowed a Friday afternoon pedant's moment, whether RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or not depends on which side you take in the RSS wars: see the opening chapter of Ben Hammersley's Developing feeds with RSS and Atom O'Reilly 2005 0-596-00881-3 which landed here today. (BH is sole proprietor of the magnificent Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent at http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/index.html <http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/index.html> and writes for Guardian Online) Or there's a good explanation in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29 Tom Tom Roper, Information Resources Development Coordinator Brighton & Sussex Medical School E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44(0)1273 644501 Fax: +44(0)1273 644440 Mob: +44(0)7799 671321 I ran the London Marathon in 4:32:11. There's still time to sponsor me at http://www.justgiving.com/tomroperflm2005/ -----Original Message----- From: Chartered Library and Information Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Buckley Owen Sent: 25 April 2005 17:33 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CILIP makes it easier to keep up with new services, news and developments CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 7 Ridgmount St, London WC1E 7AE. Tel: 020 7255 0500 Textphone: 020 7255 0505 Fax: 020 7255 0501 Email: [log in to unmask] News from CILIP Tuesday 26 April 2005 For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists) CILIP makes it easier to keep up with new services, news and developments RSS feed means users receive automatic notification of new pages on CILIP web site CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is making it easier to keep up with new developments at the UK's leading membership organisation for library and information workers. Instead of having to make regular visits to CILIP's web site, you can now find out what's new automatically, using the new RSS service. Launched on the CILIP stand at last week's Library + information Show, RSS enables users to keep track of new pages as they are added to a web site without having to go and check the web site itself. You can use it to check our press releases for news of latest developments and issues, find out about new CILIP services or newly published documents and reports, or keep track of developments in key initiatives such as the Framework of Qualifications. To take advantage of any site providing RSS (which stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'), users first need to install an RSS reader on their computer. CILIP's RSS page provides links to several readers offered by competing providers. The reader will then list all the sites to which you have subscribed for feeds and then the newest postings on those sites. You then see a summary description, and click through to the actual page to read its content in full. "Our new RSS service makes it much easier for people to keep in touch with the latest developments at CILIP," comments Jill Martin, CILIP's Director Knowledge & Information. "The big benefit of RSS is that the individual opts in to content of interest, such as the CILIP news feed, so that they are able to choose the information that they want to receive. We will be launching new online services and information throughout the year and, if our members and customers use our RSS service, they can ensure that they don't miss out." "RSS readers are a growing market and a very handy way to pull in information you are interested in from sites," adds Sarah Woodbridge of CILIP's web site developer cScape. "Both My MSN and My Yahoo! have recently added web based access to RSS feeds to their personalized homepage services which will no doubt lead to even wider adoption." To find out more about how an RSS feed can help you keep up to date with developments at CILIP and in the library and information world generally, please go to www.cilip.org.uk/aboutRSS for full details and links to RSS readers that you can download. Contact: Tim Buckley Owen, Head of Membership, Marketing & Media. Tel: 020 7255 0652 Email: [log in to unmask] <Mailto:[log in to unmask]> Notes to Editors About CILIP CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 35,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 23,000 are CILIP Members and around 12,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises. CILIP members work in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk. About cScape Ltd cScape Strategic Internet Services Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of NetB2B2 plc, is a leading UK IT consultancy and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. As content management system expert's cScape was one of the first companies in the UK to deploy Microsoft CMS 2001 and CMS 2002. cScape chairs the UK Microsoft Portal Technologies User Group and specialises in web solutions for local government, NHS, membership organisations and commercial online communities. For further information visit www.cscape.com - Ends -