My Record Feeds

How It Works

MORRIS will return an RSS feed containing links to your patron records based on status of your patron requests and checked-out materials. My Record Feeds don't push information, they allow feed readers to pull. MORRIS will generate these feeds only when they are requested by the feed reader and then, to prevent server overload, cache the result for 24 hours. A new XML file is not assembled for the requesting feed reader unless the current cached one is over 24 hours old or non-existent.

Change to content depends on your feed reader settings and on the caching at the source. When the feed reader requests the latest copy of the feed (either by manually clicking on an update link or by some other automatic refresh setting), it will receive the latest copy of the XML file from MORRIS.

  screenshot of MORRIS feed in MyGoogle reader  

Potential alerts in the feed

  • Law Library materials ready for pickup on hold shelf  — Included if your MORRIS record has held items ready for pickup
  • Law Library materials due soon — Included if your MORRIS record has checked out items with due date between tomorrow and tomorrow+6 days
  • Law Library materials due today — Included if your MORRIS record has checked out items whose due date is today
  • Law Library materials overdue — Included if your MORRIS record has checked out items whose due date is prior to today
  • Law Library materials recalled — Included if your MORRIS record has checked out items with a recalled status
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    You may subscribe to the feed in several ways

  • Copy the URL from the link in your patron record and subscribe using your RSS reader
  • Use Live Bookmark feature of a browser or other RSS reader
  • Manually add a Live bookmark to your browser or other RSS reader
  • NOTE: Do not set your personal record feed to be public if you use a service which offers sharing features.
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    Need an RSS Reader?

    Get Thunderbird from Yale's software library (login required). Google Reader or Bloglines are two possibilities for online reading. Check RSS Compendium for a large list of readers organized by platform. Get general information about RSS from Wikipedia