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Subject RSS Feeds Now Available

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Submitted by jason on Tue, 09/12/2006 - 1:36pm.

In addition to the recently released new titles RSS feed, individual RSS feeds are also available for new titles in individual subject areas. The subject areas for the RSS feeds are same as on the new titles website:
  • General, Reference, and Misc.
  • Philosophy, Religion & Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Literature and Language
  • Natural Science & Mathematics
  • Technology & Applied Sciences
  • Fine Arts
  • History & Geography
Subject RSS feeds are already in place for all schools that have requested RSS feeds and are available for immediate use. Any school interested in receiving the nine feeds can request them by submitting a helpdesk ticket.

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New Titles RSS Feeds Now Available

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Submitted by jason on Mon, 08/28/2006 - 11:28am.

The beta test period has been completed for the RSS feeds for new titles. The feeds are now available for general release. New feeds will be created as requested by schools. If you would like a feed created, please log a helpdesk incident and someone from PALNI will contact you.

What is RSS? Very simply, RSS feeds allow users to subscribe to content so that it can be delivered to their desktop. For our example, this means that a list of new titles will be delivered to the patron instead of the patron having to visit the library website to find the information. If you want to find out more about RSS, there is a detailed explanation in this Wikipedia article.

If you would like to see an example of an RSS feed for a PALNI school, you can view the raw XML feed for Marian college here:

http://hickory.palni.edu:8080/rss/mcp.xml

If you have other ideas regarding how we might be able to implement RSS in PALNI, please let us know.


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PALNI New Titles List Working Again

Submitted by palniadmin on Wed, 11/09/2005 - 9:53pm.

The PALNI New Titles List is once again working. It can be used to display a 'new titles list' of newly cataloged records for any PALNI library, and also to search those new titles by keyword. The application, which was originally developed by PALNI staff for our old DRA system, was "ported" to Aleph V. 15 last year. However, the system stopped running automatically following our upgrade to Aleph V. 17 in August. Staff have updated the software for V. 17, and new titles lists are being updated again each night

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