Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle

In order to make this into what I hope will be a useful resource for us, I’ve added some links and RSS feeds. There are now RSS feeds for the Collection Development feature in Library Journal, as well as the Books section of the New York Times.

Collection Development also has a Delicious feed on the blog as well. I’m hoping that all of us will add content to delicious as a way to share articles and websites amongst ourselves. See me for logon information. If you have a delicious feed of your own, please add Colldevsnoisle to your network. Don’t know what Delicious is, watch this video here.

In the Links and Tools section you’ll find links to particularly useful resources. I’ve added links to the New York Times Bestseller Lists, and also to a site called Metacritic which pulls together reviews from respected critics and major publications. Metacritic gather reviews books, film, DVD, games, and music. The reviews are weighted depending on the authority of the source and then the combined scores of all the reviews are averaged to determine an overall score. So for example if you look up a film like “The Usual Suspects” a review by Roger Ebert will have more importance than a review from Jim’s Movie Blog–and no, I don’t have a movie blog. The combined scores in Metacritic are nice but what’s really useful is that for many of the sources the full text of the review is just a click away.