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The Special Libraries Association Western Canada Chapter
is pleased to present

Always Fresh - Fast Content for Your Web Site and Users (Replay)

Speaker: Darlene Fichter
Monday, May 29, 2006: 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Brown Bag)

Location: University of Saskatchewan Library
Room 12 Murray Building
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Library Data Coordinator, is the featured speaker of the virtual seminar Always Fresh - Fast Content for Your Web Site and Users. Darlene suggests a no. of ways that libraries can offer a "fresh web site environment. RSS (rich site summary/RDF site summary/really simple syndication) feeds can help you keep your site current. Learn how to publish, merge, and convert RSS feeds into instant Web content. Discover how libraries have made specialized pages featuring article titles of current journal issues, new library acquisitions, book and movie reviews, and much more. Take away a list of sites that allow anyone to simply cut, paste and publish RSS content to their site in seconds. For the technologically daring in the audience, find out where to download free scripts that allow you to ‹shake and bakeŠ your own combos. Dive in now and offer new services that auto-magically refresh and keep your audience coming back for more.

Registration: FREE - Members
$10.00 - Non-members.
Complimentary Desktop access also available to members upon request

Contact: Susan McConkey
SLA WCC SK Regional Director
tel.: (306) 966-7260
email: susan.mcconkey@usask.ca

Thanks to our program sponsor Micromedia ProQuest