RSS Feeds and other related technologies provide users a way to syndicate and republish content on the Web. Libraries are creating RSS Feeds for users to subscribe to including updates on new items in a collection, new services and new content in subscription databases. This could gives the update to users and always uptodate in providing information. This is a great impact for the libraries where it gives the updated for the traditional library invironment where the update took more time and the information will less valid to the users. This could see the clear cut in the University of Washington website with information on all the news, events and even users could join their facebook and flickr.
"A new product from a company called BlogBrigge, BlogBridge: Library (BBL), is a piece of software that you can install on your own server, inside your firewall. it;s not the content of the library (the books) but the software to organize the library (the building). BBL potential for libraries to determine due to its being brand new, it is conceivable that this syndication will replace browsing and searching through library websites for content BBL and similar RSS aggregator applications installed in a library's system and coupled with the social network of the library,will enable users to have single, customized, personal library page that syndicates all the library content of interest to them and their research, eliminating irrelevant information. The users will control the page and the content"(Maness, J.M, 2006).
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