Welcome!

Welcome to the FLA Internet Member Group!

I’m Corinne Bishop, acting group moderator. A little about my background... I am the Information Literacy Librarian at the University of Central Florida. As a member of the Information Literacy and Outreach Dept., I work with other ILO librarians to develop online
information literacy tutorials. My duties also include staffing the library's online reference, providing reference desk services, and teaching library instruction classes.

Before getting my library degree from Florida State University, I worked as a technical writer and software course developer. I have a strong interest in technology... and all things related to the Internet.

I'll be posting discussion topics to the Internet Member Group section of the blog on a regularly basis. The first discussion relates to RSS. Since discussions about the Internet can cover a wide range of topics, please feel free to make suggestions about other topics of interest or branch out into other areas when you comment.

To get us started... Do you use RSS? What is an RSS feed?

RSS -- Really Simple Syndication is XML code (similar to HTML) that is used to "feed" updated content from online sources to a feed reader. RSS is available on blogs, wikis, podcasts, journals, and news sites. The idea is -- you can subscribe to content from your favorites sites and the content is sent to you instead of you going to the content. This can be a time-saver if you try to keep up to date on several sources.

To learn more about subscribing to RSS feeds and setting up a feed reader, here's a nice online tutorial from the National Library for Health
http://www.library.nhs.uk/rss/Directory/RssTutorials.aspx . Once you have your feed reader set up, you might want to subscribe to the FLA Blog to receive updates when new information is posted to the site.

-Corinne