Book awards

http://www.nationalbook.org/nbawinners2000 Scroll down for the 2006 winners.

The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle are:

Nonfiction
Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso)
Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade (Penguin Press)
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin Press)
Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Ecco)
Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury)

Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf)
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Grove/Atlantic)
Dave Eggers, What is the What (McSweeney's)
Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land (Knopf)
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf

More on RSS feeds

The education continues. My preference would be to have rss feeds that patrons can sign up for that would have updated information about programming, new books and eventually information regarding the future of the library. An rss feed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) that a patron can subscribe to, that would send the newest info to the patron's PC seems like the best way to get updated information out there.

I have one page....really a test page as I have never done this before. I was looking for an add on piece of software that I could use with Dreamweaver and that just seemed too complicated. I need something relatively straight forward as a I tend to do this kind of work at the reference desk. So I used the tutorial on this page, did it by hand, and it wasn't all that difficult. What's not clear to me is how to configure it so when there is new information, that patron will know...i.e. adding time and date stamps and "forcing" an update.

Any way...the page is http://www.suffield-library.org/rssfeedtest.xml. If you want to look at it, it needs to be run through a rss newsfeed aggregator. I used NewsGator...which is an online free service. Not particular attractive but for testing purposes, it'll do.

The education continues.....