I started a twitter account for the library. It pulls content from our news blog using TwitterFeed via our RSS feed. You can visit our Twitter page here: Library Twitter Accoiunt.

I have recently reworked our Information Literacy Web site. It now pulls resources from our new MVCC Information Literacy Del.icio.us account. This uses our RSS Feed Parser (A Feed2JS implementation) to pull the content from Del.icio.us into our site.

We have just made a new video available aimed at instructors who use the classic appeals, Ethos, Logos, & Pathos when teaching rhetorical argument: Persuasive Appeals: Defining Ethos, Logos, & Pathos.

I have put together this short tutorial about taking an RSS feed and using our Feed2JS feed parser and incorporating it into BlackBoard version 8. You can learn more about our Feed Parser here: Feed Parser help page.

The library is happy to announce a new Web site that we have created in collaboration with our communications department: Information Literacy General Education Expectations and Resources.

A few weeks ago, Larry and I did a presentation at the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference about our Google Maps/Second Life project. We have put our slides on slideshare.

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We are just finishing up our Malcolm X Map Project. This is a pretty cool way to distribute student work. If you are a second life resident, you can also visit our SL MX Exhibit.

I have been trying out Netvibes new public aggregator page, here: MVCC Netvibes Aggregator Page. This could be a way to create a resource to keep people in touch with differenct info resources and information created on campus.

Ever heard of Yahoo pipes? This is a handy tool that allows you to combine RSS feeds from blogs, podcasts, and other sources into one handy feed. I’ve put together a single feed for all of the library’s blogs and podcasts. It is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=JK5fBGvf3BG15aR9YEsBXw&_render=rss

Here is how it looks:

This is very cool. Our IT department has helped out the by putting up our own Feed Parser. Now, sure what a feed parser it? Basically, it’s a tool that lets you take display an RSS feed in a Web page (Blackboard page, blog, etc) as a bulleted list. It is an easy way for the less technically savvy faculty members to incorporate outside content into course sites. I’ve put together this Feed parser help page to explain how this works a bit more.

Here’s a sample of our parser in action using the feed from the library’s Check It Out Podcast: