Abstract
This article describes a digital library framework and toolkit called MyLibrary. At its heart, MyLibrary is designed to create relationships between information resources and people. To this end, MyLibrary is made up of essentially four parts: (1) information resources, (2) patrons, (3) librarians, and (4) a set of locally defined, institution-specific facet/term combinations interconnecting the first three. On another level, MyLibrary is a set of object-oriented Perl modules intended to read and write to a specifically shaped relational database. Used in conjunction with other computer applications and tools, MyLibrary provides a way to create and support digital library collections and services. Librarians and developers can use MyLibrary to create any number of digital library applications: full-text indexes to journal literature, a traditional library catalog complete with circulation, a database-driven website, an institutional repository, an image database, etc. The article describes each of these points in greater detail.
Highlights
This article describes a digital library framework and toolkit called MyLibrary
The term “MyLibrary” was coined by Keith Morgan, Doris Sigl, and myself in 1997 when we worked in the Department of Digital Library Initiatives at the North Carolina State University Libraries
It was a reaction to the -popular portal applications called My Netscape, My Yahoo!, and My Dejanews.[1]
Summary
MyLibrary is designed to create relationships between information resources and people To this end, MyLibrary is made up of essentially four parts: (1) information resources, (2) patrons, (3) librarians, and (4) a set of locally defined, institution-specific facet/term combinations interconnecting the first three. Intended for use as the framework for a controlled vocabulary, the facet/term combinations of MyLibrary give the librarian and developer an opportunity to describe and relate the primary components of libraries—information resources and people. A library that owns the Encyclopaedia Britannica might “catalog” it with the Formats/Books facet/term combination: Title—Encyclopaedia Britannica Facet/Term—Formats/Books Another easy-to-understand facet might be called Research Tools, denoting things used to find data and information. Facet/term combinations are used to describe and create relationships between MyLibrary objects These objects include information resources and people, and the people consist of users and librarians. This section describes the MyLibrary objects—information resources and people—in greater detail
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