For both of you blogs readers, note that I will not be posting for more than a week, since I will be out-of-town giving a workshop on open source software and XML. If you need a MyLibrary fix, then consider reading about how MyLibrary can be an OAI service provider as well as an OAI […]
MyLibrary is distributed as open sources software under the GNU Public License. This means the software is free. Free as in the meaning of liberty. It is also free in that you do not have to pay a fee in order to download and implement. At the same time, it is also free as a […]
Think of MyLibrary as if it were a three-layered chocolate cake. One layer is librarians — the people who do the work. The second layer is information resources — the traditional content of libraries. The third layer is patrons — the people who use the information resources. The stuff holding the cake together and makes […]
Again, complete MyLibrary implementations include: 1) librarians, 2) information resources, 3) users, and 4) a controlled vocabulary creating relationships between the first three. This posting introduces the objects of MyLibrary, the things for which libraries are created — users.
Libraries do not exist in a vacuum. They are not a means unto themselves. Rather they exist […]
As stated previously, MyLibrary implementations are made of a number of components: 1) librarians, 2) users, 3) information resources, and 4) facets & terms creating relationships between the first three things. This posting introduces the “beef” of MyLibrary — the information resources.
Librarians love to create lists. Lists of books. Lists of journals. Lists of Internet […]
MyLibrary essentially consists of four parts: 1) librarians, 2) information resources, 3) users, and 4) a controlled vocabulary. This posting elaborates on the first part — the librarians.
Libraries do not exist without librarians. Somebody has to build these things. The case is no different in MyLibrary. Librarians do many tasks. They collect. They organize. The […]
MyLibrary is a digital library framework — a “toolbox” for managing digital library collections and implementing services against those collections. It is essentially made up of four parts:
librarians - the people who manage the library
information resources - the content the library collects and disseminates
users - the intended audience of the library
a controlled vocabulary - the […]