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* Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Patron Choice

Glenn Peterson sends word of another patron displaying on his blog a feed of what he has checked out from his home library. How awesome is that? A possibility only because the staff of the Hennepin County Library provides RSS feeds for their patrons. Nice job, HCL!

In case you're keeping score, that makes two known instances of patrons displaying feeds on their own sites (the other one being Edward Vielmetti), one patron who rolled his own feed because his library doesn't provide them, and one person who created a LiveJournal feed of AADL's Book Blog.

I wish I had more examples to show in my presentations, but I don't think that will happen until we start seeing native RSS feeds out of our catalogs. I'm still waiting to see some real-world implementations of feeds that haven't been programmed by library staff in a live, working OPAC. Hopefully in 2006....

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