New books RSS feed / "badge" with cover images?

From: Laura Harris <harlaura_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:07:26 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. 

Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here:

http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm 

Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default "grey box" we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? 

Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. 

Would appreciate your insight! 

Thanks,
Received on Fri Apr 09 2010 - 10:08:41 EDT