July 28, 2005

Changes to HSL-News and HealthLinks

HSL-News is now managed in a blog (?). This means changes for both HealthLinks and the news you have been receiving. Read more about the changes.

HSL-News has been a read-only mailing list to which individuals subscribed. The messages, written by an editor, announced new information resources, services and items of interest to UW faculty, staff and students. On average, you received 2 messages per month. By creating a blog, we can pull HSL-News content into HealthLinks using RSS to create the news you see on the HealthLinks front page. As a result, we will discontinue the "What's New" button on HealthLinks because the full story becomes available in the HSL News blog, with a simple click on the headline. We can also send this news out in email format as well as offer an RSS feed for the news.

You now have 2 choices for HSL-News:

  1. Leave your name on the email subscription list and receive the news announcements as email. You may receive 2-5 short messages per week instead of 2 longer ones monthly.

  2. Remove your name from the email subscription list and select from one of the two options below. You will not receive email mailings from HSL on a regular basis, instead your liaison may occasionally send out announcements of interest to you directly.
    • Download a news reader (such as SharpReader), subscribe to the HSL News RSS feed, and receive the HSL postings as they occur OR

    • Visit the HealthLinks front page at your convenience to view announcements (archives will continue to be available).

For more information about news readers, and to select one, visit Google's Directory of news readers. To unsubscribe from the email list.

Terry Jankowski, editor, HSL-News

p.s. This email was brought to you by the "notify" feature of the software (MovableType) we use to create the HSL-News blog.

Posted by terryj at July 28, 2005 11:33 AM to Library Services