Library Stuff

The Lipstick Librarian loves Blake Carver. I mean she really loves Blake. Alot.

I can’t blame her. Blake is one heck of a librarian, techie, and all around nice guy. He is well deserved of all accolades sent his way. We love ya Blake.

After looking at David’s post about a feed being available for new DDC mappings to LCSH, I clicked the link that says, “Learn about our feeds”, a smiled when I saw all of the neat DDC feeds that they offer. If you’re a DDC fan (c’mon, I know you’re out there), these are a must to add to your aggretator.

Update – Electric Velocipede lists a few more OCLC RSS Feeds. Here’s a few more. Why don’t they have all of these on one RSS page?

Yesterday, I received a call on my cell from Ken Dobruskin (he called from Switzerland!) who created Zmed.org. He noticed that I linked to his service but had a few issues with it, so he fixed it. Wow! Great customer service.

Now, if you run a search it will display PubMed citations that match your search query, with a link to the full-text of the article. You’ll also notice that there are shiny happy xml buttons displayed for any search performed, so it’s totally customizable for your aggregator reading pleasure. Suweeeet! And thanks Ken.

The Charlotte Observer has introduced alot of RSS Feeds. I mean alot. Including OPML. Neat. (link via Don’t Back Down)

I was playing with Sage today (for reasons that now escape me), and came across a shiny happy orange xml button when I landed at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin page. The RSS Feed link leads to a blank page that says:

“This directory has no index file.”

Experimenting perhaps? One could only hope. I then looked at 20 or so random online journals from Sage and couldn’t find another shiny happy orange xml buttons. C’mon Sage…the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is going to have a complex if it’s the only one with a broken RSS feed.