We’re getting closer and closer to the start of another academic year and a new intake of LIS students. A question that arises is how to follow LISNews. Recognizing that people have different interests and also different habits in consuming Internet content, it is necessary to perhaps list some of those tools.
You can subscribe to LISNews via e-mail. A page with an example of an e-mail and the sign-up form can be seen at https://lisnews.org/node/28182. E-mails normally come out once per weekday.
LISNews has a multitude of RSS feeds. The main stories RSS feed is https://lisnews.org/rss.xml and you can get wind of new comments by following https://lisnews.org/crss in your RSS reader. RSS feeds off the blogs do not necessarily function at the moment. A partial list of feeds by topic tag is available at https://lisnews.org/syndication.
LISNews posts to Twitter when most new posts are put up. You can find such at http://twitter.com/LISNews.
While there is a tweeter on Twitter for LISNews, there is an automatic posting account on Identica. You can find that at http://identi.ca/lisnews. Identica provides a variety of data export formats so that you can consume posts in your feed reader.
The feed for the LISNews Netcast Network, presently helmed by Interim Coordinator Daniel Messer, is http://feeds.feedburner.com/LISNewsNetcasts. You can also subscribe to LISNews Netcast Network posts via e-mail. You can find the network’s early vodcast efforts at http://listen-from-lisnews.blip.tv/ although it should be noted that that effort may be revived, equipment permitting.
As for other specialty content within the LISHost constellation, you can read press releases related to the library realm at LISWire. LISWire can be found at http://www.liswire.com while the feed for your reader is http://www.liswire.com/aggregator/rss/1. If you have a press release to post, it should go to LISWire first before LISNews.
Also as part of the LISHost constellation for those wanting to get their feet wet with podcasts before investing themselves too much is LISFeeds. LISFeeds is a planet aggregator that brings in show posts into one web page. Click on an episode title to reach the program’s own site for playback. You can find that online at http://www.lisfeeds.com/. In case you are worried that the planet back-end might be stuck and not have updated, this account on Identica is updated when an update cycle concludes: http://identi.ca/lisfeeds.
LISHost can be found at http://www.lishost.org.
I follow the print edition…
each month, a service called, http://www.webtoprint.com takes all the posts from my subscription sites and prints them out then mails the bundle of pages to me. I can’t stand reading the Internet online, so I pay to have everything I want to read printed out, including LISNews.
it’s a lot to read, and I find it hard to keep up, but right now, I’m reading all the Internet from Feb. 23, 2003, so I’m sure I’ll get caught up eventually.