Hey Sirsi. You’re So Fine. You’re So Fine You Blow My Mind. Hey Sirsi.

January 20th, 2005

January seems to the month for RSS in libraries. Today, a few of us were sent an e-mail from Sirsi stating that they have released RSS capabilities in their new enterprise software. Fatures include:

+ The ability to take any OPAC search strategy and convert it into an RSS feed. Because text search engine for our ILS system enables a user to embed MARC and other field codes in the search string, a user could construct a search that searches against title, author, subject, ISBN {020} and any other indexed field within the ILS.
+ The ability to create an RSS feed based on a search of any sources within SingleSearch, Sirsi’s MuseGlobal (Gary’s sponsor) based federated search product (EBSCO, LoCZ, etc.).
+ The ability to create an RSS feed of Google results.
+ The ability to create an RSS feed of our ‘Best of the Web’.
+ The ability to sort the results by date, author, title, or relevance, where applicable.

The last three are impressive, but nothing compared to the first two. More big announcements to come. I can feel it in my gut…

(link via The Shifted Librarian and my e-mail client)

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