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Legal publishers and RSS

By Jennifer Vass

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There has recently been a bit of a stir amongst the UK legal library bloggers regarding the issue of legal publishers and RSS for new books ? namely, that they aren?t doing it.

Lo-Fi Librarian started the ball rolling with her post lamenting that the UK publishers haven?t quite caught up with their Canadian brethren. This then led to Nick Holmes of Binary Law setting up a prototype New Books Section for Lawfinder, where Nick is taking the information from new title spreadsheets and constructing RSS feeds from them. This is not official, and is not going to be frequently updated, but is more of a gentle pointer to demonstrate to the legal publishers just how easy it is and how useful it could be. There is even a Facebook group for those wanting to fight for the cause of RSS ? UK Law Librarians For Publishers' RSS Feeds.

New publication information through RSS would be more timely and easier to manage, whilst freeing librarians from spreadsheets, flyers and email updates (and cut out the number of flyers we have to recycle!). Next stop - convincing the publishers!

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on November 01, 2007 (boomark / email).