February, 2003
Abstract
This article describes a database-driven website application for libraries called MyLibrary.
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This article describes a database-driven website application for libraries called MyLibrary.
MyLibrary has its roots in a customizable interface to collections of library information resources. As the application has matured, it has become a system for creating and managing a library's website by manifesting the ideas of information architecture. Specifically, the MyLibrary system provides the means for a library to create things like:
top down site maps
bottom-up site indexes
controlled vocabularies
a means for power searching
browsable lists of resources
optional, user-specified customizable interfaces
From the commandline you see if your MyLibrary installation is working correctly by issuing the following command: ./mylibrary.pl . The result should be a stream of HTML intended for a Web browser.
For more information about MyLibrary, see: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ .