Version 2.63 of MyLibrary is available for downloading:
http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/download/
MyLibrary is a database-driven website application with an optional,
user-driven, customizable front-end for libraries; it is a portal.
New features in the release include:
* Optional LDAP authentication - Using this feature you can
configure your MyLibrary implementation to point to your
institution's authentication database and free the user from
remembering yet another username and password. Instead, your
user's will simply have to remember their institution-wide
authentication username/password combination. See:
o http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ldaps-cgi.shtml
o http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ldaps-pl.shtml
* Add2MyLibrary functionality - Implemented as a CGI script
that takes two arguments, this feature allows people to browse
the Web, click a Javascript "bookmarklette" on their toolbar,
and add the currently viewed page to their MyLibrary page.
Alternatively, implementers can dynamically add Add2MyLibrary
links to search results (both inside and outside MyLibrary)
and have selected items from the search results added to their
page. For a demo, try searching for 'astronomy' at the
following URL:
o http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/sandbox/search.pl
This feature was inspired by work done at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. For more information see:
o http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/add2mylibrary-pl.shtml
For more information see:
http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/new-features.shtml
Except for serious bug fixes, this will be the last 2.x release. In version
3.x we plan to rewrite the Perl interface in an object orient manner.
Additionally, the underlying database structure will be redone to allow for
the implementation of institution-defined facetted classification of
information resources. No more hard-coded references, bib_databases, or
etexts tables!
--
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
