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I have been filling up a MyLibrary instance with OAI-accessible content. So far I have stuffed about 270,000 items into the system and provided searchable indexes to subsets of the data. See: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ My goal is two-fold: First, I want to provide better access to National Science Foundation Digital Library content. Two, I want to see how far I can push MyLibrary. To explore the first goal, I wrote an OAI harvesting program, crawled the NSDL OAI Repository, and stuffed everything I found into MyLibrary while cataloging/classifying every item with various facet/term combinations. Next, I wrote a report against MyLibrary that created an XML stream. I fed this stream to an indexer (swish-e), and thus created seven distinct search engines including: * a journal index * a theses and dissertations index * an article index * an ebook index * an index of library science items * an index of life science items * an index of mathematics items I'm still exploring the second goal, but so far the database and the object oriented Perl modules are holding up and scaling quite well. Fun! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604