RSS Feed of Library Books Checked Out

Now, isn't this a useful little thing? Peter Rukavina, who lives on Prince Edward Island, has created a Perl script that "automatically connects to the web-based Dynix (aka Epixtech) OPAC and grabs a list of the items I've got checked out and the date they are due. It then creates an RSS feed that I can read in my newsreader every morning."

Stephen Cohen over at the Library Stuff blog responds: "Of course, the first thing that came to mind was that Peter should contact Dynix and show them what he has done. My second thought was that he should contact the other vendors and show them how it can easily be done. My third and final thought was to contact Peter, get on my knees, put my hands in the air, and scream, "I'm Not Worthy". Great spidering work Peter. I'd love to see some other feeds that can be created with the Dynix catalog (RSS Feeds by DDC or subject headings, perhaps?)"

DDC...hmm, there's an idea. Wait, Dewey R Us! Off to OCLC Research this suggestion goes! And thanks to David Leslie for pointing me to this--he had mused only a few days ago how useful it would be to have such an RSS feed.

And apropros of nothing....I've met Peter Rukavina. He spoke at the Access 2002 conference in Windsor.