Sunday, March 28, 2010

Libworm

I cant help myself! I just found this site and I didn't want to lose it so I'll just do a quick post.

Dolan F, Rothman D (2006), Libworm, viewed 3/4/2010 http://www.libworm.com


LibWorm beta is intended for library employees and those interested in libraries. The site collects updates from over 1500 RSS feeds, including over 800 biblioblogs, LIS journal Table of contents and many other information sources. You are then able to search the contents of these feeds, and the search results can then be accessed as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his favourite feed reader or in LibWorm's built-in reader.

Some of the major subjects covered are:
Academic Libraries
Book Reviews
Government Libraries
Humor
Law Libraries
LIS Journals
Listservs and Groups
Medical Librarianship and Libraries
Personal Blogs
Podcasts : Academic Libraries, Government Libraries,Law Libraries, Librarianship,
Public Libraries, Special Libraries, Professional Associations, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Uncategorized Feeds, Vendors
Wikis

Users can submit their own feeds to be added. Other features include tag clouds, aggregate feeds by category, pre-set subject feeds and search operators that let the user drill down into exactly what she wants to see- then be notified any time LibWorm sees it.
This is a great RSS feed search engine that accesses authoritive sites. It is simple to use and navigate and takes a lot of the hard slog out of searching the bibliosphere for library related feeds.

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