Check out the University of Alabama Library's Recently Cataloged Titles Via RSS. Alabama faculty, staff, and students can subscribe to an RSS feed of new books as they are added to the library catalog. There are a whopping 325 subject feeds to choose from -- which should make sufficiently narrow topics that everyone will find something they want without feeling overburdened by books that are of no interest. I'll bet that as this catches on, new books will have an instant waiting list.
According to Douglas Anderson, who developed this application,
Doug adds that this is brand new, so he's not sure what the adoption rate will be on campus. But they're going to have several promotional activities during the fall term, primarily targeting faculty at first.
