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RSS for Collection Development?

Submitted by shireendeboo on Fri, 2007-03-02 04:29.

I know we're focusing on wikis right now, but i'm furiously trying to max out my collection development requests and realizing how useful it would be to get "pushed" new titles in my subject areas via RSS feeds.  This is the group to ask: does anyone know of sites that have feeds where i can "customize" my feed requests by subject? or even not customize but just see new titles as they are coming out? Happy for any suggestions...or places to look. Thanks. I'm still new to collection development, and haven't had the time to explore the best tools, which I know are out there...

 

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Hi Shireen-- I don't know a

Submitted by suzannemangrum on Fri, 2007-03-02 14:26.

Hi Shireen--

I don't know a place to customize new books by subject and push them out, but I will be watching this post in case anyone knows how to do that.  Have you used the new CHOICE online?  You can set up a profile to get a good list of reveiws to download/email but no rss on the site.  There is a small subscribtion fee.  Does that change the rss availability? It would be really cool if they could add rss feeds, though.  There is an article in the Oct. 2006 edition of Computers in Libraries about using rss feeds to push the library's new book list onto the subject pages of the campus course management system.  We want to try to push our new books list to the subject guide pages.

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I've looked into Choice like

Submitted by shireendeboo on Fri, 2007-03-02 19:54.

I've looked into Choice like you suggested but I need to find fee-free options...I love the idea of pushing new titles onto a subject guide through RSS....that would need to be linked to the catalog system in some way, wouldn't it?

 

 

Shireen Deboo, Librarian

South Seattle Community College

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Here are a few collection

Submitted by ritaennen on Fri, 2007-03-02 19:56.

Here are a few collection development tools you might want to check out.

There are several feeds availble from Library Journal including one for bookblog http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/ 

Did you check out Library Success: a Best Practices Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page?  This was one of the wikis in our examples this week.  There is a section here for Materials Selection and Collection Maintenance.  I have just stared looking at the material here, but it looks like it has some good possibilities.

No feeds are available yet from Academia online reviews http://www.ybp.com/acad/index.html  but this is a great source and I hope a feed will be coming.

 

 

I will also be watching this thread for other peoples ideas.  BTW, I have tagged all of these.  :)

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thanks Rita i'll check these

Submitted by shireendeboo on Fri, 2007-03-02 21:35.

thanks Rita i'll check these out...

 

Shireen Deboo, Librarian

South Seattle Community College

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I know individual publishers

Submitted by meredithfarkas on Fri, 2007-03-02 22:16.

I know individual publishers have new books feeds that you can subscribe to, but I don't know of something that has feeds for all new books by subject (other than libraries that pull a new books feed from their catalog). It would be a terrific thing though and is probably something someone could create a hack to do. I haven't used Yahoo! Pipes, but I wonder if something like that could make it happen. Might be a little advanced though.

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