About RSS Feeds:

What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a use of technology that allows you to receive news from the Bloomfield Public Libraries automatically, as we update our website. Updates are sent to a news reader instead of your email. All you need to do is sign up for a free news reader and you can start collecting information from any website that offers RSS feeds. It's a great way to keep current with information posted to the websites that you care about.

First, you need to sign up with a news reader. The news reader does the work of collecting the news updates that you want from your favorite websites. After you sign up with a news reader, all you need to do is subscribe to the RSS feeds that you want from your favorite websites, and then check your news reader, the latest news updates will be waiting for you.

If you already have a yahoo email address, Bloglines is a good reader to use. All you need to do is register with your yahoo email. If you do not have a yahoo email, there are other very good news readers out there. Google has several Top Picks that are listed below our RSS feed list.

To subscribe to any of our RSS feeds, click on the orange RSS icons preceding the feed you want. You will be taken to the page for that feed. Copy the URL (the text in the address bar) of the new page that opens and paste the URL into the ADD FEED function in your news reader program. That's all there is to it. Now you can sit back and let the updates come to you!

RSS feed for Adult Programs at the Bloomfield Public Libraries

RSS for News from the Children's Room

RSS for the library's newsletter Footnotes
 

News Reader Top Picks from Google:

Web: Bloglines
Simple two-pane interface, like email.
 

Mac OS X: NetNewsWire
This elegant Mac-like aggregator is easy to use and powerful.
 

Windows: SharpReader
Simple, but gets the job done.
 

Linux: Liferea
A simple Gtk newsreader.