README This is the README file for MyLibrary version 3.x. MyLibrary is a true digital library framework and toolbox. Using MyLibrary is more than possible to: * create dynamic Web pages against the underlying content * create sets of personal "my library" pages akin to My Yahoo, iGoogle, etc. * do inventories of your collection * do manual data-entry into the system * import MARC data into the system * import OAI-accessible data into this system * index the content and facilitate a search this site feature * syndicate content to your institution-wide portal * write reports against the system in the form of browsable (subject, title, format, etc.) lists The system is made up of essentially four modules. One to manage information resources. One to manage people. One to manage librarians. One to manage a facet/term ontology creating relationships between items #1, #2, and #3. By doing so a MyLibrary system is expected to allow people to create their "my library" and do all the things increasingly expected from information systems such as Find More Like This, People Who Used This Also Used That, The Most Popular Item Is, Review, Annotate, Share... MyLibrary is a set of tools enabling the creation of things like My Yahoo, iGoogle, etc. From a technical point of view, MyLibrary is as set of object-oriented Perl modules designed to facilitate I/O against a specific, underlying database structure. Each module provides the usual get and set methods as well as a number of find methods facilitating retrieval of data. Once the data is retrieved the developer is expected to loop through the set and export the data in the needed format: HTML, XML, plain text, etc. Consult the POD documentation/tutorial for instructions on creating your first MyLibrary: perldoc MyLibrary::Tutorial Visit the MyLibrary home page where you will find sample scripts, applications, and more documentation: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ MyLibrary is distributed as open source software under the GNU Public License. Thank you for using MyLibrary! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Robert Fox University Libraries of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 June 25, 2007