Using RSS

   
  1 Create an RSS reader account -- Try Google Reader or Bloglines. Readers are also embedded in popular applications, like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Internet Explorer 7.    
  2 Go to your favorite websites and look for a button or the words RSS, XML or Subscribe to this Feed.
   
   
  3 Click the RSS link, copy and paste the URL (web address) into your RSS reader and click Add or Subscribe.*    
  4 The name of the site with the number of new items in parentheses should apprear in your reader.    
  5 Check the reader for new content on your subscribed sites, and save, tag, share, or email items of note.    
         
    *You can also search for RSS feeds to subscribe to, but this is a less
foolproof method.
   
         
    some feeds to consider:

Ramsey Library News
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/mt/atom.xml

Mountain Xpress
http://www.mountainx.com/rss/

Asheville Citizen-Times
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=999960728010

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=210

Project Muse
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=feeds.muse.jhu.edu/

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/

Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2154868/
   
         

Updated 15 July 2007.
Comments to the Library Web Team.