LibWorm for Librarians and Information Scientists
Meet LibWorm a search engine and web feed aggregator for Librarians and Information Science Professional. Libworm is the sister of another search engine and feed aggregator called MedWorm.com - which was developed by UK-based IT Engineer Frankie Dolan. Medical library paraprofessional and blogger David Rothman told Frankie that MedWorm’s would also be of use in harnessing the webfeeds of the bibliogosphere. Frankie agreed on condition that Rothman be responsible for maintaining the site.
How does LibWorm work?
LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorm’s built-in aggregator.
Where did you get the feeds?
All over. We consulted Steven Cohen and Blake Carver (creators of the now retired LISFeeds), who shared their list of feeds to get us started. Thank you, Blake and Steven! One other particularly helpful site was Amanda Etches-Johnson’s Blogging Libraries Wiki. We got hundreds of leads on new feeds from Amanda’s wiki, and borrowed her ideas about categories (with her kind permission). Thanks, Amanda! We also got a lot of feeds from the list of blogs at LISWiki, but most importantly, we add feeds that are submitted by registered users. [Source]
You have to register to make full use of LibWorm’s features - It is more than just a search engine and a feed aggregator. Here a number of its features:
1) My River of News: This displays the latest set of unread posts from the feeds
2) My Favourite Feed: Displays the list feeds you subscribed to
3) My Clippings: Displays selected articles/
4) Submit a Feed: Form for submitting feeds to LibWOrm
5) It is also a Feed Reader
6) And its FREE!
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