Blogs and RSS Feeds

Delivery channels of choice

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Queensland Special Library

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DPC Library – Departments

• Dept of Premier and Cabinet

• Queensland Treasury

• Dept of Infrastructure and Planning

• Trade Queensland

• Dept of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry

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Why Blogs?

the ease of setup and use

the ease of delivery to clients

the increasing availability of electronic resources

the technical difficulties with serving multiple departments with different communications protocols

the limitations with existing technology

the ability to provide increasingly tailored services directly to the desktops of clients

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The Library Blogs

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New Reports Posts

• 2005 - 140 (May – December)

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Sources

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Australian Policy Online Resource Shelf’s Docuticker – allocated subjects

Hillwatch Resource Shelf’s Docuticker – allocated subjects

Queensland Parliament Tabled Papers

Eidos Institute Productivity Commission

Alternative Energy Stocks

Australian Institute of Family Studies

Queensland Parliamentary Research Briefs

Australian Institute for Commercialisation

Democratic Audit of Australia

Australia and NZ health policy

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Abare

Policy Hub (UK) Creative Economy Online

Reserve Bank of Australia Discussion Papers

Business Council of Australia

Centre for Independent Studies

Egov Monitor Social Policy Research Centre Discussion Papers

Federal Parliamentary Library

Australian Policy Online

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

Migration Information Source

Australia Institute Discussion Papers

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Monash University, Department of Management Working Papers

ACOSS

Westpac Market Insight Centre for Policy Development

Asian Development Bank

Policy Library UK Access Economics

EMJA Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research publications

NAFSA: Association of International Educators

ANU Economics Program papers

Centre for International Economics

ABC Fora CEDA publications

Australian Business Foundation

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• Linking subject labels to RSS feeds

• Statistical collection

• Methods of client access

DPC Blogs and RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

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Statistics

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• Direct link to online articles

• Linked to a scanned document

• Mailto link for books and articles

Methods of Client Access

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Alison Howse

Cathy Kohn

Anna Landy

Debbie Griffith

Sue Haigh

Erin Bryant

Sue Edmiston Jovena Ling

Cassie Pummel

Thank you…