I have set up journal alerts for teachers and principals so that they get an email with details of articles in tables of contents in professional journals. I have set up a journal alert of School Library Journal and other journals that I am not likely to purchase through a print subscription.
We have set these up as emails - seems to be more reliable than the RSS feeds, but we will get that figured out.
The multimedia files in InfoTrac Student Edition were new to me. Great to know that these are available if students and teachers ask about these. Appeared to be only from NPR, but I guess that is the main producer of audio of this type.
A teacher recently told me that she had discovered the searches that can be set up in Google to search specific sites and topics. I told her about the ability that we have with our subscription databases and she is interested in that, but somewhat difficult to sell a concept when it is put up against Google.
It would be great if teachers would require students to use journal alerts to set up a search of a topic over time and do an analysis of the perspective of a news event as it changes over time.
I think the adult patrons of libraries would be very interested in the latest articles related to a personal interest. I have some personal alerts set up for myself.
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