RSS for the AADL library in summer 2005; P.S. We love your blog
Just got this nice letter from Eli Neiburger at the AADL. This is the first I've heard of these plans, which sound great - and at the end he says
> P.S. We love your blog.
so I figure I should be OK in sharing it here. To wit:
From: Eli Neiburger <eli@aadl.org>
Thanks for taking the time to contact us with your suggestion about
RSS at the library. We are currently in the process of moving to a new
library automation system (Innovative Millennium), and it will launch with a
completely new aadl.org website (based on Drupal) that will deliver all
kinds of new features, including RSS. We're still in the development phase,
so I can't yet guarantee this specific functionality at launch, but we hope
to provide RSS feeds of not only newly-arrived items, but also newly-ordered
items, so that you can get on the request list before it even arrives. We
also hope to eventually offer custom RSS feeds of new items, by genre,
author, or keyword, but we'll have to get to know our new system better
before we'll know if we can pull that off.
Rest assured that useful, flexible, and broad RSS support is a major
design goal of our new website, and we hope our feeds will find good homes in aggregators throughout the district... and beyond! Watch for the new aadl.org coming in early July [2005].
Thanks again for your feedback, and thanks for using the Library!
Eli Neiburger
IT Manager
Ann Arbor District Library
eli@aadl.org
P.S. We love your blog.
Cool. I had sent a similar request into the library last week. In particular, I think it would be handy to know when the library gets new books on CD. Ain't life grand?
Posted by: John Hritz | March 22, 2005 at 09:27 AM
Hey, the library I work for uses Innovative Millenium! Maybe RSS feeds for us aren't far behind!
Posted by: Sophie Brookover | March 23, 2005 at 12:08 PM
Not as far as I know. We're doing this by exporting reports into a separate database and running RSS from that. Millennium has no built-in RSS, at least not yet.
Posted by: Eli | March 23, 2005 at 06:38 PM
Very nice. Almost makes me think it would be fun to be a systems librarian -- almost.
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | March 25, 2005 at 05:51 PM
Just read this post... this is awesome! I have to ask the Library if they need a tech intern this summer.
Drupal will be the perfect system for them to use. It could also let them quickly set up Civicspace sites for the huge amount of impromptu community projects in this city.
Posted by: Matt Hampel | April 10, 2005 at 08:48 PM