a gift for you

what does one geek get another geek for a holiday gift?  a customized opml file.

an opml file is a bunch of rss feeds all crammed into one file.  you load an opml file into your blog feedreader and, bam, your reader is populated with a bunch of new things to read.

since i can’t give all of you librarian readers a smooch under the mistletoe i am giving you a gift from afar.  using the new ticTOCs service, i’ve put together a file of rss feeds of tables of contents from library periodicals that you can download from here (DIRECTIONS: click on link, save file to your desktop as .opml, import into your feedreader).  you will probably want to tweak the list of periodicals that i’ve included in the file, and in that case just head over to the ticTOCs site to pick and choose from the journals listed there and create your own opml file.  in the meantime, import this list into your feedreader, pour yourself another cup of eggnog and read what your colleagues are writing about.

these are the periodicals i’ve included in the linked opml file:

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Biomedical Digital Libraries
Building Research & Information
Collection Building
Ethics and Information Technology
Health Information and Libraries Journal
Information & Management
Information and Computation
Information and Organization
Information Processing & Management
Information Processing Letters
Information Retrieval
Information Sciences
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
International Journal of Information Management
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
Journal of Classification
Journal of Documentation
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Library & Information Science Research
Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services
Library Hi Tech
Library Hi Tech News
Library Management
Library Review
Online Information Review
Performance Measurement and Metrics
Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems
Scientific and Technical Information Processing
Serials Review
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community
Social Science Information
The Charleston Advisor
The Electronic Library
The International Information & Library Review
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
The Library Quarterly