New non-fiction at the Ann Arbor District Library, 30 December 2005

I reserved this one right away.

This one caught my eye too.

This one had five holds on it already when I checked it.

New non-fiction at the Ann Arbor District Library, 30 December 2005 by Edward Vielmetti.

I wrote a tiny bit of code to turn the RSS feed that the Ann Arbor District Library puts out for new non-fiction books and turned it into an images-only new books display.

For more, see vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron , my new blog, or www.monkey.org/~emv/superpatron/aadlnewnonfiction.html . I make no guarantees that this will continue to be up to date.

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Matt Hampel says:

All you need now is that wood background pattern.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

djwhelan says:

Cool! As community suggests, this is like a constantly updated public version of Delicious Library.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Matt Hampel says:

Ed sent a message about Delicious earlier, so I had find a pattern ;-)

Would be nifty to have limiters -- 10, 20, items, call # (well, probably dewey-correlated subject). And there are RSS feeds for searches already, so all it needs is an interface.

Request URLs are formed by bib #, which I'm pretty sure is in the feed, so you could do them from the page via AJAX too. Hmm.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Edward Vielmetti says:

I got everything from the RSS feed, and you don't want to see the code.

One of the things that the Graduate Library does in the upstairs lobby is to sort new books by day of the week, so you have a Monday shelf, a Tuesday shelf, a Wednesday shelf. I'd like to see dividers with date markers.

Anything you can think of searching through one or more RSS queries (which includes keyword and I think perhaps also call number searches) is fair game. I'll try to do an equivalent of this for my current checkouts next, that shouldn't be too hard.

Note that a lot of VHS, DVD, and audio CD titles are missing cover art at the moment.

There is a lot of room for Ajax - no particular reason why a mouse-over shouldn't give you a way to get item details and a request. But I haven't gotten there yet, and won't on my own.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Edward Vielmetti says:

Actually, if you do want to see the code, just let me know.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Matt Hampel says:

Now with "shelves"!

(concept page, doesn't work in IE)
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Michael Casey says:

Very impressive!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Edward Vielmetti says:

An update of this -

The AADL put something similar to / inspired by this into production at the library - see

www.aadl.org/node/10631

for information about their GreetSaver screen saver.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Ann Arbor District Library says:

This is incredible! I'm an admin for a group called Ann Arbor District Library, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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