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MyLibrary @ LANL is a
personalized web portal. It is a collection of personal links to
electronic journals, databases, and other web resources. It can
be customized to reflect specific disciplines and research needs.
The LANL user can:
- Select resources from a subset of the 6000+ electronic journals,
130+ electronic databases, and 600+ subject-based web links from
the Research Library's website.
- Add their own preferred
weblinks easily by clicking a bookmarklet on the
personal toolbar of your browser.
- Use the shared libraries feature that lets a group collect
and share web resources, facilitating team projects.
- Use Circulation record to see what materials
they have checked out and renew them via the web.
- Find related material with "See
recommended e-journals" — this feature uses your current
ejournal selections to recommend related ejournals, uncovering possible new avenues
for research.
A user selects an initial primary interest during the sign up
process. This primary interest determines how the first Library
of their MyLibrary @ LANL is populated. There will be specific links
in the database folder and in the ejournal folder. Messages from
the library will be based on this primary interest. A user can then
add more libraries with other associated areas of interest. Once
a library has been established, new folders can be added to it,
and then links can be added to the folders.
Version 2.0 of MyLibrary introduced shared libraries. An "owner"
can set up a library, determine who has access to this library,
and populate the library. This "sharing" of resources will facilitate
team projects, interest groups, etc. There will be one place to
store resources. Members of the shared library have two levels of
"rights." The owner can assign some members read-only rights. Other
members can have "read & write" privileges. Only the owner has the
right to delete resources from a shared library.
Link checking is run on a weekly basis. Broken links are noted
by a red x. The MyLibrary user can update the URL or delete the
link.
There are two bookmarklets that assist in the use of MyLibrary
@ LANL. These bookmarklets can be dragged to the user's personal
toolbar. The first bookmarklet named "MyLib" is simply
a link to MyLibrary @ LANL. The second bookmarklet named "+2MyLib"
gives the user an easy way to add links to their libraries without
any cutting and pasting.
The LANL implementation of MyLibrary @ LANL is an object oriented
redesign of the Mylibrary source code created by Eric Lease Morgan
of North Carolina State University. The code was designed by two
summer students Andres Monroy-Hernandez and Cesar Ruiz-Meraz from
Monterrey, Mexico. The code is currently maintained by Mariella
di Giacomo and Ming Yu.
Please send comments and suggestions to stbrl-mylib@lanl.gov.
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