Steven reminds me that he posted a workaround way to get ALA news via RSS while I was away.
wireless whatfor at ALA
Andrea has a wireless fyi about how to get wifi at or near ALA if you’re not one of the Councilors who will [hopefully] have wifi at the conference.
booklist RSS feed updated
Until we exist in a future world where auto-discovery of changed RSS feeds is the norm, dorky posts like this will have to do. If you’re subscribed to my booklist feed, the new URL for it is at this link. I’ll try to add some metadata to my pages so that I’ll be ready for that future world.
Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005
List maniac Michael Stephens has a good list of tech things good for librarians to know about. It’s a great big hyperlinked list of tech terms and descriptions and worthwhile no matter what your tech level of knowledge is.
RSS, darnitall!
I think this is Jenny quoting Steven quoting Fiona, but in any case, Dynix is going to have RSS feed options from their catalog and Seattle Public Library is going to be using their new OPAC real soon now. As a small-library web developer, I just drool thinking of how easy it would be to pull OPAC content in to an otherwise static “new titles” page, as Jenny says.