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As an professional association medical librarian the application of web technology creates a challenge. The library itself is for the headquarter staff only and is not open to the public nor is it a member service, especially since there is one of the me and 160,000 plus members. What I do for members of the association I do through the web. A new feature in the members only section of the association web site ( www.nursingworld.org ) that I am working on is to provide a current contents of nursing literature around specific topics. My previous plan was to run monthly searched and have the results e-mailed to me. Then I would organize the results and post them to the web. Now I believe the RSS can pretty much automate all of this process, I just need to check with content management system provider to learn how to set up RSS feeds. My plan is to use the previous searches I set up as RSS rather than e-mail, and have the updates automatically. Also inhouse I provide a monthly search of new articles on PubMed that is focused around eleven selected topics of interest to staff. Now that I know about RSS I plan to created a RSS for each of the topics so that staff can have the information as soon as it is posted in PubMed rather than waiting for my automated monthly searches. It will make the information much more timely.