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[ANNOUNCE] MyLibrary@NCState version 2.50
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lease Morgan)
Tue Jan 9 20:03:05 2001
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 08:29:42 -0500
From: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@NCSU.EDU>
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(Please excuse multiple postings.)
The NCSU Libraries has made the source code to MyLibrary@NCState version
2.50 available.
MyLibrary@NCState is a user-driven, customizable interface to sets of
Internet resources -- a portal. Essentially, a database application with a
Web front-end, the software allows libraries to maintain collections of
information and provide a personalized interfaces to this collection for
patrons. The software is written in Perl, uses MySQL as the back-end, and is
distributed under the GNU Public License. (The software is free, but think
free speech, not free beer.)
To learn more, point your browser to:
http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/development/mylibrary/
Of particular interest might be the description of the new features:
http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/development/mylibrary/new-features.shtml
Some of these new features include:
1. template/token approach to HTML rendering and display
2. creation of static HTML pages
3. user choice of layouts
4. "content for free"
5. "lowest common denominator" (LCD) resources
6. date stamps
7. ever-present administrative menu
8. Perl module + scripts
9. configuration file
Enjoy, and tell us what you think.
--
Eric Lease Morgan
NCSU Libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/
