This document discusses how librarians at the National Emergency Training Center Library use Yahoo Pipes to create current awareness services and RSS feeds that aggregate fire and emergency information from various online sources. Yahoo Pipes allows them to combine multiple information streams into a single feed. They demonstrate how to set up a pipe to filter and sort information from news sites, journals, and databases. These pipes and RSS feeds help disseminate timely information to over 1.3 million fire service professionals.

1. InFire 2010 ConferenceCurrent Awareness Services for our Fire Service Stakeholders Using Yahoo Pipes Edward Metz (MLIS, MA) Head Librarian National Emergency Training Center Library Tel: 301-447-1046 email – edward.metz@dhs.gov

2. NETC LibraryYour All-Hazards Information Portal Connecting first responder leaders to first responder knowledge since 1978. Comprehensive all-hazards collections Online catalog available to researchers 24/7 Subject bibliographies & pathfinders Special online resource pages Fire Prevention, Public Education Exchange Executive Fire Officer Resource Page First Responder Dissertations/Theses Search Over18,000 downloadable reports, articles, books and papers

3. NETC LibraryAll-Hazards Information – USFA Social Media USFA on Twitter Focus on FEMA – USFA Blog USFA on Google Books 3

4. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Where is the value in providing a current awareness service? Adds value to our web presence Who better than information professionals should identify, organize and disseminate timely information of value to the fire service community? There are some 1.3 million or more members of the fire service community in the United States. What better way to reach them than over the web with info they can trust and potentially use?

5. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Fire prevention community Sprinklers smoke alarms Fire codes/inspections Fire-safe cigarettes CO detectors Novelty/toy lighters Campaigns/Fire prevention efforts Wildfire Safety Campus fire safety More fire safety news International fire safety news

6. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Yahoo Pipes: Free web tool for mashing up RSS feeds using a visual editor Just need a Yahoo account Don’t have to necessarily create from scratch. You can clone any publicly available Pipe and adapt it to your needs. But its easy and fun to do on your own as well

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10. Library pane

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13. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Information sources – Fire and emergency service RSS feeds Here’s one place to start

14. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Information sources – Fire and emergency service RSS feeds Copy the RSS feed url from the browser bar

15. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Information sources – News feeds - Google News, Yahoo News 1 2 3

16. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Copy the Google RSS feed url from the browser bar

17. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Fetch Feed Module As you identify or generate RSS feeds you’ll want to bring them into your new Pipe

18. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Add RSS feeds

19. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Filtering for best results – Permit Block

20. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Sort by date in reverse chronological order

21. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Start connecting the functions to create your pipe

22. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Connect the sort function to output and click on the output module To then see the results click on save and run pipe

23. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Now everything is connected, we’ve selected source output and the Run this Pipe link

24. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Now you can view your results or export them.

26. E-parade

27. FMDIGEST

28. National Fire and Life Safety Education

31. More you can do with PipesMap Mashups– RSS/Yahoo Pipes You can export the KML file from Yahoo and import it into Google Maps Here are the civilian fire casualties September 2009

32. LRC UpdatesLatest from the LRC and Around the Web LRC News and Information RSS feed Twitter: http://twitter.com/usfire Weekly GovDelivery emails

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