Melissa L. Rethlefsen Education Technology Librarian, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN: mlrethlefsen Melissa Rethlefsen is the education technology librarian at the Learning Resource Center, the library of the Mayo Medical School. She received her bachelor's degree in English and History from the University of Minnesota and Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of North Texas. She is an active member of the Public Health/Health Administration section of the Medical Library Association; she serves as a member of the Web Committee and on the editorial board of the Core Public Health Journals Project Version 2.0, which was awarded the 2006 Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences. She has written extensively on social software, including articles in Library Journal[1][2] and forthcoming articles in Journal of Hospital Librarianship (abstract only) and Medical Reference Services Quarterly, and freely admits addiction to del.icio.us. Her most recent project is implementing the social networking tool LiveJournal at the Mayo Medical School (abstract only). Title: Using RSS to Add Currency to the Library Web Site Screencast Keeping library web sites fresh and interesting for library patrons is always a challenge. Bring patrons back to your library web page for more by using RSS and morphing a static page into a dynamic one. RSS is a versatile and flexible language that provides the backbone for much of today's web content: blogs, news feeds, and much more. Because RSS and RSS-enabled tools allow for easy syndication of web content, RSS can be used to add continually updated materials to your web site without hand-coding and with little or no effort, depending on the source for your RSS feeds. Generally, adding RSS feeds to web sites is as easy as cutting and pasting one line of code into your web site. Multiple tools exist for helping users put RSS feeds into their own sites, including Feed2JS, RSS-to-Javascript, FeedSweep, Feedsplitter, Feedroll, Grazr, and more. These tools work with any RSS feed, whether from a blog, a search, a social bookmarking tool, or any custom blend of RSS. It's a great way to promote the library blog, local news, upcoming events, faculty publications, new books, web sites of interest, and nearly anything else. In this screencast tutorial, three examples of adding RSS syndicated content to a web site will be demonstrated: new books added to the library collection, new journal articles published by an institution's faculty, and syndicating a blog. Though these are the only two examples that will be fully demonstrated, with free RSS tools and the limitless possibilities for RSS feeds, options for improving library web sites' functionality and dynamism are endless. RSS Syndication Resources and Tools: http://mlrethlefsen.googlepages.com/rsssyndication Less