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We, at the University of Notre Dame, have successfully replicated the Pirate Source application developed at East Carolina University using as a basis the MyLibrary 3.0 Perl modules. The application layer is also written in Perl (Pirate Source is written in PHP). The link to the Pirate Source application at ECU is here for comparison: http://systems.lib.ecu.edu/piratesource/ The link to the test version of MyLibrary in the guise of Pirate Source is available here: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/test/piratesource.cgi This is just a first run, about two days of development time. The returned resources give you location information (a URL linked title, if available) and a description which can be seen when the left arrow is clicked. The returned set is also organized in the same way that ECU organized Pirate Source. The only functionality that we've added is that we check to make sure that when you click an option during steps 2 and 3, that you will always have at least one resource in the result list. In other words, you should never receive an empty result list. We did this in order to demonstrate an alternate way that folks can use the MyLibrary OOP API and write applications which will present data in any way that meets the requirements of the institution using the software. We will put the piratesource.cgi program in CVS so that you can download it and try it out. I just need to document the program with a POD and I'll upload it to the repository. Please give us your feedback. Any number of these search/browse widgets can be created as an application layer using the MyLibrary API. Rob -- Robert Fox Sr. Programmer/Analyst University Libraries of Notre Dame (574)631-3353 [log in to unmask]