ConFigures

Unclear on the Concept?

I renewed a couple of library books online today, and discovered that my county library system is starting to get into social software more: an anonymous (not just pseudonymous) no-comments  librarian blog (sigh), and RSS. I think it’s nifty that one can subscribe to feeds of library events by event type or location. However, not all the branches have made the most of this opportunity yet. I’m not going to bother subscribing to the feeds as long as I still would have to “Call the Library” to find out this month’s selection, as one branch suggests.

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Voting with my feet, I unsubscribed from that branch’s feed and subscribed to the feed of another nearby branch (I’m sort of in between three different library branches) which provides more useful info (i.e., the title/author of the next work being discussed at its next book club meeting).