Here’s a quick and easy way to augment your Government Documents collection: FirstGov, the U.S. Government’s web portal, now offers RSS feeds in a range of subjects. Each of these broad topics has a number of entries underneath — and they’re obviously planning for a lot more:
- Agriculture RSS Feeds
- Consumer RSS Feeds
- Cyber Security RSS Feeds
- Data and Statistics RSS Feeds
- Education RSS Feeds
- Federal Personnel RSS Feeds
- Health RSS Feeds
- International Relations RSS Feeds
- Military RSS Feeds
- Forest RSS Feeds
- Science RSS Feeds
So if you’re interested in Product Safety Recalls (XML) or National Agricultural Statistics Service News (XML) — or lots of other stuff — here’s your place to go.
What a simple way to keep your patrons up to date on whatever part of the bureaucracy is of interest to them…
[Updated 19 May 2005 to correct URLs which I’d butchered by mistake.]
This is great Ken! I’m an LIS freak with a deep weakness for public policy. This is like a dream come true. Thanks!
P.S. I’ve been really enjoying your blogging. Keep up the good work.