Downtown Library/LRC

For those of you new to blogging, a blog is a webpage in which content is added in a daily journal-like fashion. Each new entry includes a date and time which the entry was added. This blog was created as a communication tool for LRC patrons to access information resources both here at the Downtown LRC/Library as well as off-campus, even on the Internet.

You can view this blog's news on a daily basis using an RSS Feeder (some RSS examples include Bloglines, GoogleReader, Newsgator, Feedburner). Because spam has become so prevalent in email, RSS Feeds were designed to offer privacy so you can reduce spam cluttering your email inbox. Here's a simple step-by-step format of how to set up an RSS Feeder using Bloglines.com as an example:

1) Create an account at Bloglines.com. Select "Sign up now it's free!" in the middle of the the circle on the landing page to get to the easy form. Complete the necessary screen information.
2) You will then be asked to go to your email to validate the new account.
3) Subscribe to feeds- When you click on the validation, you will be taken to Bloglines. Click on My Feeds tab in the upper left corner. Bloglines will subscribed you to their news blog.
4) Now you'll want to subscribe to this blog-

• Select the Feeds tabs in the upper left hand corner.
• Select Add button.
• In the middle frame, type in the blog's URL: http://jctcdtlib.blogspot.com/
• Click on Subscribe.
• You have some options for how you want to display this blog on Bloglines. When you're complete making your choices, select Subscribe.

5) Make a bookmark or Add to Your Favorites on your computer of your new RSS Feeder so you can easily check this and other blogs, wikis, etc. on a daily basis.

Labels: RSS Aggregates, RSS Feeds