RSS feeds and podcasts

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OCLC offers RSS feeds and podcasts featuring news, events, product updates, system alerts, research, with more topics on the way. You can get the latest headlines delivered to your news reader to make staying informed easier than ever.

Podcasts (English)

OCLC now offers podcasts of OCLC events significant to the library and information science community. Learn more about podcasts at Yahoo!, Apple or Wikipedia.

Please note that many of these individual audio programs are an hour or more in length and can exceed 30MB in size.

Name	Feed	Description	Validate
OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series podcast		Each year OCLC Research invites distinguished professionals to Dublin to make presentations on topics of current interest.
OCLC Events podcast		OCLC presentations to and meetings with the library and information science community, including OCLC Symposium presentations and discussions.

OCLC News Feeds

Name	Feed	Description	Validate
OCLC News		The latest OCLC news headlines.
OCLC Products and Services		12 most recent updates to OCLC products and services
OCLC Research (English)		12 most recent announcements from OCLC's Office of Research

OCLC Support (English)

Name	Feed	Description	Validate
System Alerts		Conditions that might be affecting an OCLC service.
Closed Dates in Authority Records		Lists of authority headings that have been changed to add a death date.

OCLC Research (English)

Name	Feed	Description	Validate
OCLC Research		12 most recent announcements from OCLC's Office of Research
Terminology Services project		Latest news and announcements on the progress of the project.
OCLC Research publications		Items posted to the "OCLC Research Publications" OAI Repository since 2005-03-24.

OCLC-related feeds (English)

An offering of feeds available from other sources that OCLC visitors may find of interest.

Name	Feed	Description
Lorcan Dempsey's weblog		Lorcan Dempsy, Vice President (Research) and Chief Strategist, OCLC, on libraries, services and networking.
Outgoing		Thom Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC Research, on library metadata techniques and trends.
It's all good		A blog from five OCLC staff about all things present and future that impact libraries and library users.
Weibel Lines		Ruminations on Libraries and Internet standards from Stu Weibel, Senior Reseach Scientist at OCLC.
BlogJunction		WebJunction's niche in the blogosphere.
Dublin Core		Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
HangingTogether		Four OCLC RLG Programs staff discuss libraries, archives and museums.

RSS resources

What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format for distributing information from websites to desktops. A newsreader application accesses selected RSS feeds to bring your favorite information sources to your newsreader. Numerous newsreaders are available, including freeware, shareware and browser-based options. If you are new to RSS, a helpful RSS Quickstart guide is available at the Lockergnome Web site.

OCLC uses RSS 2.0

There are several versions of RSS currently in use. OCLC feeds follow the RSS 2.0 format and are registered with Syndic8.com, which has a large directory of available feeds.

How do I add a feed?

If you already have an RSS reader set up, choose a feed by right-clicking on the "XML" icon, and select "Copy Shortcut" (Internet Explorer) or "Copy Link Location" (Firefox), then paste the feed location into the RSS address/URL field of your reader. An alternate method is to click and drag the XML icon, and drop it into the RSS address/URL field. You may also need to click a "subscribe" link to finish the subscription process.

If you experience any problems reading our feed, check out the "Valid RSS" link to see if the feed conforms to specifications. (If it doesn't, please let us know!)

For more information

Read this useful RSS FAQ or the RSS 2.0 specification.