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Laura, While not directly related to your question, another route you might want to go is to try and get thumbnail images from other sources (i.e. amazon, openlibrary, etc.) in addition to syndetics and cache them for future use. I do this on our website and I wrote an article on the basics here: (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1009). I can send you the code I have on my server for our complete solution if you want. Here's our new books page, database driven with local thumbnails (http://www.paulsmiths.edu/library/books.php). I also use the same data to send out a new books email every 2 weeks to subscribers. You can sign up here to get a sample (http://library.paulsmiths.edu/newbooks/subscribe.php) and then unsubscribe in your 1st email if you want. Again, if you want the Python code that generates and sends the emails, let me know. Also, if you're a PHP fan, VuFind has some code on downloading book covers here: https://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vufind/trunk/web/bookcover.ph p Hope that helps in a round-a-bout way. Be Well, Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Laura Harris Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:07 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / "badge" with cover images? Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default "grey box" we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,