Library Tech Confidential

The Toronto Public Library has announced several useful improvements to its catalogue and website, most notably lists of ‘newest titles’ by audience (adult, teen, children) and type (fiction/nonfiction, graphic, large print).

Still no baked-in RSS feeds, unfortunately, and I’m not having much success producing one with Feedity or any of my other go-to scraping tools. Ah, well, I guess progress is progress.

Update: Still no luck on the ‘newest’ lists, but I have been able to come up with a feed for Toronto Public Library news scraped from this page. Hopefully some of you will find it useful (and if you do, let me know!)

Construction of Archives of Ontario building begins at York University’s Keele campus [York University (Press Release)]

A rendering of the proposed building is available from PCL’s site.