About MyLibrary

MyLibrary is for you.
In order to get benefit from it, you need to have an account - so either select "New Account", or "Login" (for returning customers). From there you can select a broad topical interest area and pages within our web-site which are most related to your interest area will display on your own MyLibrary portal.
You can choose to delete links, and/or add in ones which you would prefer.
Why would you want to do that? As we have a big web-site, this allows you to bring together all material you are interested in, into one subject or personal portal (e.g. so it selects all the arts and music pages for you).

Features

MyLibrary is a new kind of Web page allowing you to define what is displayed. It is:

Content rich - The database supporting MyLibrary contains links to a wide variety of information including full-text databases, subject help, popular topic resources and other Library information.

Portable - Since you create for yourself a MyLibrary username and password you can login to MyLibrary just about anywhere there is Web browser.

Customisable - By selecting the customisable options, you choose just what items you want displayed, or, more importantly, what items are not displayed.

Pro-active - The content - particularly of recent picks changes regularly. MyLibrary allows librarians to send you messages or information although, of course, you will only be contacted in this way only if you turn these features on.

Focused - Most of the time, MyLibrary allows you to list only the information you want listed. Consequently, you do not have to be bombarded with "noise".

Platform independent - To use MyLibrary all you need is a Web browser. The browser must support cookies and it must be configured to not look in its cache for its content. Your browser must support a protocol called Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for security purposes. For more information, see the page listing end-user computer requirements.

Private - The configurations you make to MyLibrary are held in the strictest of confidence. Just like the doctor-patient and lawyer-client relationships, there exists a librarian-patron relationship that is held in the strictest of confidence. For more information, see our Privacy Statement.

Technically speaking

MyLibrary is a brain-child of the Digital Library Initiatives Department, NCSU Libraries, which has been adapted by Wellington City Libraries. The technical foundation of MyLibrary is a relational database, a Web server, and a set of scripts providing mediation between the two. A more complete description of the how's and why's of MyLibrary is also available online.