In the world of realestate the mantra is “Location. Location. Location.” In MyLibrary, locations are pointers to content and services.
Most of us will think of locations as URL’s. Pointers to bibliographic databases, electronic books, electronic journals, mailing list archives, JPEG images, etc. MyLibrary is not limited to storing information about electronic items. It can also […]
It is possible to make your authority lists work harder by exploiting MyLibrary.
One of the purposes of authorities (controlled vocabularies) such as name authorities, subject headings, and classification schemes is to bring like things together. Searches (or browses for that matter) using authorities return all matter of content with similar characteristics. All the works […]
This is the beginnings of personalized (as opposed to customized) page. Based on the patron’s personal characteristics, it displays “their page”. See: http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/demos/your-page/
Here is how the process works:
import data (name, address, courses, major, department, etc.) about patrons from the registrar and HR departments (think “circulation module”)
create sets of library-related information resources (indexes, catalogs, Internet […]
A few days ago I read an African proverb, “If you want to go quickly, then go alone. If you want to go far, then go with a group.” I suppose this is another way of saying, “Two heads are better than one.” This is the way we feel here; we desire your input.
We want […]
When we say “free” here we really mean gratis. In this case you get more than what you pay for.
No, MyLibrary can not solve all of your digital library problems, but it can address many of them. Let’s try to stump MyLibrary. What sorts of digital library collections and services would you like to implement, and then let’s see how well (or how poorly) MyLibrary can be used to implement your digital library.
If you have a success story regarding the use of MyLibrary, then we’d like to hear from you. Tell us what worked and what didn’t work. We’ll share it with the rest of the world in order to build the user and developer communities around the — yours and ours — toolbox.
Creating a digital library with MyLibrary is not about programming as much as it is about librarianship. Writing a computer program with MyLibrary is less than half of the problem.
The process of librarianship is a combination of three things: 1) librarians, 2) patrons, and 3) collections & services. Libraries are not created without librarians. […]
Article Index, a MyLibrary demonstration application, serves two purposes: 1) to illustrate ways DOAJ content can be re-used and repurposed, and 2) to demonstrate how MyLibrary can be used to support digital library collections and services.
DOAJ is an OAI-PMH data repository. It supports at least two different data sets: 1) metadata regarding journals, and 2) […]
This posting describes how you can use MyLibrary it implement multiple digital library collections and services on the same computer.
As alluded to previously, the technical underpinnings of MyLibrary consists of: 1) a data base, and 2) a set of Perl modules that do input/output against the database. When the Perl modules were first installed […]