David King at Dave’s blog asks some valid questions about Sirsi’s new RSS offering: But for me, there are some questions I’ll need to answer to become completely satisfied with the product. Mainly, because the way I’m reading SIRSI’s PDF, to use the RSS feed part, you have to purchase SIRSI Rooms (a separate product …
Feedster has come out with a job search tool where users can search for a job and then subscribe to the feed for that search. I put in a search for “librarian” and there weren’t too many good, current, or relevant results. Perhaps it would be a better tool in searching under other fields (business …
Exciting news from the world of ILS’s [as reported by Jenny at The Shifted Librarian]! I’ve been crawling out of my skin with anticipation, waiting to be able to announce this, and now it’s finally official! Sirsi will be the first ILS vendor to offer native RSS feeds out of the catalog, and they’ve gone …
For those who have an RSS feed for their blog, you can now easily submit your feed to 15 aggregators using Feed Submitter by Thomas Korte. If you find that your submission fails on some of the aggregator sites, it may be because you’re already listed on there. [via Research Buzz]
Wow! This has got to be one of the most useful sites I’ve seen in a long time. Susan Herzog, a librarian at Eastern Connecticut State University, has created BlogBib, an annotated bibliography of all things bloggy, with a special focus on library/librarian blogs. It’s quite a resource — a one-stop shop for articles, studies, …