Attendance: Jeremy Donald, Amory Irby, Ben Longoria, Tina Petimezas, Azucena Rodriguez-Guerra, Ruth Swan, Ruby Wehmeyer, Rita Wilson, and Kathy Amen.

Before Jeremy began his presentation on RSS feeds, we had a couple of announcements:

• Congratulations to Tina Mesa, who's been named Dean of the Palo Alto Library
• Kathy's panel has been accepted by GPO for inclusion in the April meeting: "Running the Rapids: The Challenges and Opportunities of Changing Workflows in Documents Departments." She will report on the conference at our next meeting.
• SAC and St. Mary's have both started library blogs.

Now for Jeremy's presentation. Thanks, Jeremy, for correcting and explanding my notes. If you have questions using about these fascinating new tools, please direct them to Jeremy.

Newsreaders

Bloglines. Just go to the site, sign up, and start searching for and adding posts. Google's reader is
similar, and has a neat 'share' feature that lets you select posts to add to a webpage Google provides. You'll need to
create a Google account to use this service--very easy, just follow the steps they provide.

Good RSS feeds for docs

Docuticker. Free, with lots of posts daily.
Government Info. Free, run by energetic documents librarians.
You can use the Search feature in Bloglines to find interesting feeds, and you can also create
feeds from Google News and Bloglines searches.

Sharing posts

Use the "clippings" feature in your Bloglines account to save articles you plan to use and/or share. You can 'feed' clipped content back out to
the world by posting the clippings in LiveJournal. Livejournal is itself a blogging tool, and each Livejournal account provides a feed.

LiveJournal feeds can be read as an RSS feed by Bloglines and Google Reader, so others can access your "clippings" just by adding your feed to their newsreader. They can also be automatically added to your webpage(s) by using Feed to Javascript. This website builds the javascript necessary to display RSS feeds on webpages. It will give you code to make an RSS feed for your webpage. You can manually select items for your dynamic webpage by using LiveJournal as described above, or simply send an existing RSS feed to it (provided you trust the content and want it on a webpage) and it will populate automatically.

Google co-op can be used to create your own search engine, effectively a searchable, specialized list of items. This can be an effective way to provide an "archive" of pages you no longer link to directly from a given page, or to create a specialized search tool for web content, rather than a list of links. Once you have created your search engine, you can use the html code (which Google coop provides) to embed the search box on your own webpages, and continue adding sites to the engine using your Google account. I use this tool to create a searchable archive of articles that I clip from bloglines--I put the search box on library webpages that provide a relevant context for the theme of the search engine.

Google Groups.

Jeremy will set up a Google Group for us. This will allow us to email announcements, have online discussions, etc., more easily.

Our next meeting will be at SAPL Downtown on April 20 at 9:30 a.m. Don't forget to bring your parking ticket in to the meeting for it to be stamped (don't have it stamped at the Circulation Desk).

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Amen, Secretary/Treasurer

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