WorldCat New Books List?

I have a couple of questions:
1. Have you created a WorldCat account in order to make and/or watch lists?
2. Do you think anyone else has?
The reason I ask is I just logged into my WorldCat account (which I don't do very often) to look for interesting lists to follow. I searched for "engineering" and found that the Kresge Engineering Library at UC Berkeley makes lists of all its new books. You can see their profile and lists here.
So I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to copycat UCB. The idea would be that our patrons could follow the list so they would be able to easily see what our new books are. (Of course, they can already see our new books pretty easily by looking at our new books page, but this would make it even easier.)
Alternatively, I've noticed that some units have RSS feeds of their new books available. I don't think we have that going on, but that would achieve the same effect.
I guess the point is whether students/faculty might find such a thing useful. Part of me thinks yes, because I personally like to keep an eye out for cool new books. But part of me also thinks no, because students/faculty are primarily concerned with their own work/research and will search (or have search updates) for those subjects on their own.
Any thoughts?

Dawg Prints Alerts- new webpage

Due to the recent outages affecting our program, Dawg Prints has taken several steps to better inform and distribute information vital to our users. In addition to the Dawg Prints Support email, the Dawg Prints Updates mailing list, and our Dawg Prints website, we have recently created another site, named Dawg Prints Alerts, to provide centralized notification to our users. This site will be updated whenever an issue affects the Dawg Prints system or a location. You can find it at:http://depts.washington.edu/dawgprnt/dpalerts. If your issue is not addressed please make sure to email Dawg Prints Support at: uwcshelp@u.washington.edu.

A Real Life Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

The UK's Daily Mail (1/12, Massey) reports on the Terrafugia Transition flying car, set to debut next month. "With wings that fold up automatically at the push of a button, the Terrafugia Transition should be equally at home in the sky or on the road." The Transition "is powered by the same 100 brake horsepower engine...on the ground and in the air" and "Terrafugia claims it will be able to fly up to 500 miles on a single tank of petrol at a cruising speed of 115mph." Currently, according to the article, "the only place in the US in which it is legal to take off from a road is Alaska. And as well as your driving licence, you will need your pilot's licence." Neoseeker (1/11, Ridgely) reported, "Assuming it survives all well and good, it will be in showrooms in 18 months time (July of next year)." The article also noted, "The vehicle is capable of transforming from a two-seater road car to a plane in 15 seconds."

Safari Book collection info- why some books disappear!

You'll probably see some questions about why certain books are not available on Safari when they were available a few weeks ago. If the book in question is a 2006 publication, then it fell off our subscription on Jan. 1st. (our subscription is for the most recent 3 years only, which is now 2007, 2008, and 2009-- even though there's hardly anything available for 2009 yet...). Since O'Reilly books are only available online through Safari, there isn't anyplace else where we can get an electronic copy. The person can request a print copy through the regular book purchase request form or ILL. I've asked cataloging to remove 2006 Safari records from the catalog, so people shouldn't be finding them that way. Let me know if there are any other issues/questions about Safari. Linda.