The URL for our original no longer used blog (http://www2.sls.lib.il.us/MVCC/blog.htm) now redirects to the active blog portal (http://www.morainevalley.edu/lrc/blogs.htm). We did this rather than delete the old material because search engines still point to the old. We moved all entries for all categories to the appropriate new blog and deleted all entries from the old. The past is behind us.

A fine idea, the previous message “RSS to blogs.htm page?” The LRC main blogs page now (or by the end of the day) carries headline feeds from the 4 public blogs with general appeal, so it acts as a stripped-down aggregator. Eventually, we expect our patron community to begin using aggregators, but the leap to the full experience (blogs, blogging, posting, feeds, aggregators, rss format wars, etc.) might be a bit too much for right now. For a rundown on the mechanics, see the entry Feed over, Frankenstein. Also, a shameless link to Arbitrary Content, my web page, which contains links to RSS/JavaScript info on a few sites.

Would it be possible for us to post recent entry titles on the blogs.htm page? This could work as our own agregator for students, faculty, and staff. I know we want our staff to move to aggregators, but I imagine that it’ll take our general public a little while (months, years?) to get to that point?

Ok, I played around and got it everyone added to Zempt at the Info Desk. I was just a little slow.

Is it possible to get multiple users on the same instance of Zempt for the reference desk?

AHHH!! I installed Zempt on Barb’s and Leslie’s machines. I forgot to turn comments off on Leslie’s machine, so comments came up. I asked her to remove them. However, I turned comments off on Barb’s machine and they came up. Do we have to turn them off for each post?

I like this, a lot. We’ve taken the headline-only feed from the Frankenstein blog and use it as (dynamic) content in the Library’s main Frankenstein event page (the section titled “Exhibit News Links”). Each headline links back to the appropriate blog item. We don’t have the type of server access we need to do this ourselves (at least right now), so we’re using Alan Levine’s demo, RSS Feeds via JavaScript. Cool to think the feed leaves the SLS server, visits Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, and then returns to Moraine. A happy kind of outsourcing.

Tracie delivered the sharp graphics and color schemes, and we’re ready for prime time. We added a blogroll (bottom left column) which, we hope, will add extra interest and drive a bit more traffic. Tomorrow we present to all the librarians during inservice…