A few Library-related RSS feeds
Not long ago I started using my RSS reader again. As expected, my back-to-the-future fling with RSS found that many of my go-to feeds had shuttered in the intervening years, but… Read more »
Category: RSS
PHP + DOM + Joel = SMS from OPAC
Mentioned the other day that I was working on adding a “send this call number to your cell phone” capability to our Voyager OPAC (mitigating the “find a scrap of… Read more »
Proxy content from an RSS feed
About six months ago we signed a contract with Springshare beginning a relationship as a customer for their LibGuides service. LibGuides is vendor-hosted system for building and presenting subject guides,… Read more »
Research Portal update, LibGuides and more
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »
Research Portal Update
Brought the component software of our portal up to current versions over the past few days (WordPress 2.3.1 and SPT/CWIS 1.4.2 beta) and we’re about ready to begin the real… Read more »
uMac – a great OS X resource
Earlier today we (well, mostly Shane, really) upgraded our MARS installation—moving from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2. Admittedly a small version jump but when upgrading DSpace a simple(?) dot-point release is something… Read more »
Internet Scout Portal and RSS
About three weeks ago I began doing a test install of the Internet Scout Portal Toolkit (in the coming months we need to begin building a research portal and this… Read more »
Video content via RSS
Friday the Yahoo! Search Blog had an entry which gives yet another cool use for RSS. Since I too am awaiting delivery of my new video iPod, I found it… Read more »
RSS feed from Voyager
Had a request so here is the perl code for creating the ‘on-the-fly’ RSS feed, based on a call number prefix. This script uses the intermediate newbooks.txt file that Michael… Read more »
Integrate RSS feeds into your HTML page
Was asked the other day by a librarian if it was possible to pull an RSS newsfeed in from some other site for a web page she was working on…. Read more »