Ann Arbor District Library Will Unleash New RSS/Bloggy Web Site
June 8th, 2005Edward Vielmetti is on the technology advisory board and gives us the scoop:
“The old library catalog is a DRA product running on OpenVMS on DEC Alpha hardware, with a Frontier front end for doing events and notices and reading lists and locations and hours and other library information stuff. The new catalog system will be Innovative Interfaces, and a Drupal events and notices system. That’s approximately a 5-10 year leap into the future right there.”
“There’s a plan to integrate library staff and patron book recommendations and discussion right into the catalog interface. The idea is that you’ll be reading along in a library blog about books recommended in a certain area (patchwork knitting, Middle Eastern cookery, or travel books about Vermont) and be able to click straight through to put a recommended book on reserve. Blogs will have RSS feeds, and there’s plans to have RSS feeds out of the catalog.”
I feel a suweeeeeet coming in the near future. Edward, keep us updated!