In browsing a number of "digital tools" to focus on for my research and exploration, I came across LibWorm.com, "a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries." I thought that seemed relevant, so I took a look.
What I found, was a website that collects updates from around 1400 RSS feeds, all related to libraries. These feeds are then freely available for searching and subscribing to the user. Users can subscribe using their preferred aggregator, or use LibWorm's built-in aggregator.
It was developed by Frankie Dolan, who built the infrastructure for MedWorm.com. David Rothman, a medical library paraprofessional approached Dolan with the idea that the same concept would also work for the biblioblogosphere. Dolan agreed, and they worked together to create LibWorm. TaDa!
So far, I think it's a great tool to simplify the work of finding and browsing blogs, websites and journals for library news. After researching for reviews on this resource, I found that there were not many formal evaluations. Hence, for my 644 project I thought I might broaden my scope to include RSS feeds in general. We'll see where that takes me...
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