Edward Vielmetti Hears From His Library…and he Blogs It
March 22nd, 2005He gets a letter from IT manager from the Ann Arbor District Library:
“Thanks for taking the time to contact us with your suggestion about RSS at the library. We are currently in the process of moving to a new library automation system (Innovative Millennium), and it will launch with a completely new aadl.org website (based on Drupal) that will deliver all kinds of new features, including RSS. We’re still in the development phase, so I can’t yet guarantee this specific functionality at launch, but we hope to provide RSS feeds of not only newly-arrived items, but also newly-ordered items, so that you can get on the request list before it even arrives.
We also hope to eventually offer custom RSS feeds of new items, by genre, author, or keyword, but we’ll have to get to know our new system better before we’ll know if we can pull that off.”
“Rest assured that useful, flexible, and broad RSS support is a major
design goal of our new website, and we hope our feeds will find good homes in aggregators throughout the district… and beyond! Watch for the new aadl.org coming in early July [2005].”
Wow! I’m sure Edward was a big library user before he got this e-mail, but now he will probably be a bigger one now. Plus, he’ll tell his friends about what his library is doing with RSS. Can you say free PR? Also, big props to Eli Neiburger at AADL.