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24/02/2005
Library Literature
Unlike every other library I've worked in we have no subscriptions to library journals. I find myself starving for library information. I'm doing RSS at home for a few different things, just personal interests, science news, science fiction, literature, and it occurred to me that I could at least get library news with RSS at work. Not so easy it turns out with a 'standard operating environment' that no one built RSS into. No separate reader and the wrong browser. Can't download anything. I email the service desk to find out if there is an RSS reader approved for use and they actually write back asking if I'd like to be part of a trial for Firefox!! Yes thank you! They haven't got back to me yet.
I thought then I could get Google news alerts. The spam filter blocked the confirmation email. I send another email to the service desk to ask if it was just the filter or if it was policy and could anything be done. They unblocked my confirmation email so that's ok, but afterwards I figured that the filter would probably catch my newsalerts.... I wonder if they will think me a great nuisance if I ask to have my alerts put on a white list?
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