Granted, only a hand­ful of the world’s library users have Super­pa­tron to advise them, but I still think it’s pretty cool that Kate is dis­play­ing a list of knit­ting books recently added to the Ann Arbor Dis­trict Library’s cat­a­log. It’s not just a text list, though — it’s a series of book cov­ers with the title as a link into the cat­a­log record.

It’s a great exam­ple of how RSS lets libraries, and more impor­tantly library users, inter­act with library con­tent in places other than on the library’s website.

A Return to Fiber

“And I fig­ure I really should get going on it since there are a bevy of new knit­ting books at the library that I’ve requested and will be receiv­ing in the near future. Thanks to Ed, who taught me how to cre­ate an RSS feed for any new knit­ting book that my library enters into its cat­a­log, I get first notice on acqui­si­tions and can get my request in at the front of the line. I usu­ally get the books within a month or two of them being added to the col­lec­tion.” [Four Obses­sions: Read­ing, Writ­ing, Cook­ing and Craft­ing]