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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
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
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Subject: CILIP makes it easier to keep up with new services, news and
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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
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:
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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
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