Dear Laura:

I may have misinterpreted your intent for the tool... I've liked WidgetBox
if you want patrons to be able to paste the widget on like a course page
that isn't in the WebPAC.
http://www.widgetbox.com

-- 
In peace,

Amy M. Drayer
Web and Systems Librarian
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Laura Harris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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,
>