I was happy to see an announcement today from Tim Spalding, creator/maintainer of LibraryThing, about the availability of RSS/HTML feeds. Tim’s work in developing a library community centered around a shared online catalog of user’s books is one of the standout ideas/creations of the past year. He is very responsive to user input and more than that, is able to grasp and see bigger uses for this new kind of service. He is constantly upgrading and adding in new features. I use this service and think that “regular” libraries can learn a lot from LibraryThing’s development. The only negative I can see at this point to his work is a small, nitpicky dislike of the inability to normalize or remove initial articles from book titles for searching purposes, so that, for example, “A celebration of London: Walks around the capital” sorts alphabetically with As rather than Cs.