British Library

I would never refer to the British Library as simple but the implementation of the RSS.  The three core feeds are for the press releases, podcasts, and blog updates. From the landing page of the British Library it isn’t immediately obvious that there are any options for subscribing to the website for updates, either by email or RSS feeds.

It is obvious that there are three different sections of News (Press Releases, Podcasts, Blog) but in order to subscribe to the RSS feeds the user has to actually visit the News section.  Although I’m not a fan of having RSS icons plastered already over the landing page of a website I do think there needs to be some way to indicate quickly to the user that there are additional options available, which is what I appreciated about the Library of Congress website.

The trouble with the simplistic approach to the RSS feed implementation is that they aren’t taking full advantage of what could be done with RSS technology.  Sure, some people probably want to know what the latest press releases are from the British Library, but as Juned points out in afeedisborn, wouldn’t it be great if we could get more?

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