I have been using MyLibrary is manage the content of a thing called the “Catholic Portal“, and because MyLibrary is open source I have greater flexibility in my development. Here’s an example.
The Portal is expected to ingest both EAD and MARC records. As these files are submitted I have been stuffing their entire contents into […]
I read with interest the (draft) Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and there are a couple of things that struck a cord with MyLibrary.
First, on page 7 (page 11 of the PDF document) the report discusses the definition of bibliographic control:
…Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships—among works, names, concepts, and […]
Last Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity to participate in a symposium for the Montana State University (MSU) Libraries on open source software. In my presentation I described open source software as a community process, free as a free kitten, its kinship with library values, and how an integrated library system might be created […]
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.
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.
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 […]