[12944] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: MY LIBRARY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lease Morgan)
Wed Jun 2 20:03:26 1999
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:26:23 -0600
From: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@ncsu.edu>
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> Subject: MY LIBRARY
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:35:34 -0600
> From: zendog <zendog@incolsa.palni.edu>
> ...
> It now occurs to me that effort ought to be made to develop a portable
> programmable library web interface similar to the windows interface.
> Consider Microsoft. Instead of developing a standard windows interface,
> Microsoft had the foresight to develop a programmable interface so that each
> Windows user creates an interface that is suited to his or her own needs and
> preferences. The Windows interface I use may or may not be the best one for
> me but it is probably better for me than the one that suites you. Could we
> not extend this customizable interface model to the library interface? In
> the programmable model, MY LIBRARY would be an amalgam of my windows
> interface, the files on my personal computer and my companies LAN, the
> resources of my academic, corporate, and public libraries, plus web URLs
> that I regularly visit -- favorites. The whole business, of course, needs
> to be seamlessly integrated and networked. The first task after getting
> onto any computer on the Internet would be to identify myself. Then some
> agent would identify the resources to which I have rights, assemble them and
> arrange and prioritize them to my specifications - just like my Windows
> interface does now, but across the network.
Zendog, for a good time, try the following URL:
http://my.lib.ncsu.edu/
More information about the system is located at:
http://my.lib.ncsu.edu/about/
--
Eric "At Home" Lease Morgan
Digital Library Initiatives Department, NCSU Libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/
