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One of the biggest problems we have been having with MyLibrary 3.0 is getting across to people that MyLibrary is more like a toolbox and not a turnkey system. It is a set of Perl modules used to create digital library collections and services. It is not a program. One one hand, by turning the system into purely object-oriented Perl modules we have been able to exploit all sorts of cool things with MyLibrary: SRU interfaces, OAI interfaces, importing and exporting in various formats (MARC, RSS, email, RDF, etc.). At the same time people seem to be expecting a turn-key application. A similar discussion seems to be happening on one of the DSpace lists. Given the low numbers of people in Library Land who can write (Perl) scripts, this could be a serious impediment to adoption. In your opinions, what might be some resolutions or work-arounds to this problem? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame