New Titles: an easy way to follow new books, CDs, movies added to YUL collections

Early this year the Libraries began weekly listings of new titles in our collections. All of the new books, CDs, and DVDs are here.

The book listings are broken down by Library of Congress classification letters. For example, if you are a mathematician, you know that math books are listed under QA. The new titles in QA (Mathematics) page lists all of the new math titles added to the collections. All of the law books are grouped together under K; and if you wanted to follow all of the visual arts, you could watch everything new under N, or you might just want to see the new books on painting (ND) that have come in.

The Sound and Moving Image Library's newest items are there too. The new film and video list shows the wide variety of movies that we acquire, from recent popular releases to obscure foreign titles to controversial documentaries. They're all available for watching, and you can listen to any of the new CDs, which cover all genres and periods of music as well as spoken word and other audio.
RSS feeds are available for all of the listings. RSS brings the updates to you whenever they happen, so you don't need to keep checking back to see what changed. Look for the little icons, which are links to RSS feeds you can read with Google Reader, Bloglines, or your favourite feed reader. Science librarian Rajiv Nariani's page on RSS feeds for science and technology explains more about RSS and is useful even if you're not in the sciences.

More work on these lists is planned, so keep an eye out for improvements.

Planet York collects all York blogs into one place

Planet York brings all of the York blogs together into one place. It's called a "planet" because it's done using a program called Planet, which is a "'river of news' feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first." You can visit Planet York regularly or subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with the latest posts.
The wide range of topics covered by York bloggers is shown by just these five:

• Advances in the History of Psychology from doctoral students in psychology;
• IPologue and The Court from students and faculty at Osgoode;
• Confessions of a Science Librarian from the head of the Steacie library; and
• the Crane and Matten Blog from two Schulich professors.

There are many others, so have a look at Planet York. If you're a faculty member and have a blog about your professional activities that you'd like included, please e-mail William Denton (wdenton@yorku.ca) and he'll add it.

And there’s more: some library blogs are on Planet York, but there's a special Planet YUL that collects all of them. (York University Libraries has so much going on that we didn't want to overwhelm everyone else!) Librarians blog about science, cataloguing, their course and liaison work, and much more, and you'll also find lots about new electronic resources and books.

—William Denton, Web Librarian