Monday, November 27, 2006

LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness

LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness. I guess this is what we've been waiting for! This is a project by David Rothman and Frankie Dolan.

3 comments:

Genevieve Gore said...

This is great for keyword searches! I'm trying to subscribe to "information architecture" as a subject feed and the results look pretty icky in Bloglines for some reason: each post is one gigantic paragraph which includes comments, like a long stream of consciousness gone completely crazy. I can't read that! It scares me. Wonder if it has something to do with Bloglines? Seems to be dropping the HTML info so the resulting text has no structure.

Genevieve Gore said...

I subscribed to the "Academic Libraries" feed category and found it pretty underwhelming. It's much too broad a search, for starters. That's a (canned) category feed. I'm also trying the (canned) subject feed "information architecture". Too bad they don't outline the search strategies for the subject searches. Difficult to read on my laptop too: horizontal scrolling required, in addition to lack of structure in the posts.

Anonymous said...

Hi Gen.

"Academic Libraries" is, as you wrote, a Feed Category, not a search. The posts there are from every feed indexed by LibWorm that originates from an academic library.

To see the detail of the Subject searches, just look at the URL.

Best,

-David Rothman
Co-creator, LibWorm.com