ResearchGuide: Web-based management of subject guides

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Credits

Suzanne Gray, Digital Information Services Librarian at the University of Michigan Graduate Library, had an idea: build an application allowing creation, management and delivery of subject guides via the Web.

While a master's student at the University of Michigan School of Information, Kelsey Libner did a "Directed Field Experience" with Suzanne as the DFE mentor. Part of the plan for the DFE was to refine and then implement this idea for use by the Graduate Library. During the Winter term of 2002 they designed the application in close collaboration.

The PHP/MySQL-based application was coded by Kelsey Libner. The help of Eric Roland Goldberg was critical in getting started and solving some problems along the way. The ConnectionManager class (a piece of code) was adapted from Eric's University Reserves application. Eric also helped me design and debug the authentication system.

The University of Michigan Graduate Library paid me on an hourly basis to finish programming this application after the end of the academic term. I would like to recognize and applaud the Graduate Library for agreeing to make this application available under an open-source license after supporting its development.

Thanks also to:

Bryan Skib and Darlene Nichols for looking at earlier versions of the application and contributing comments and suggestions.
Ryan Steinberg for sharing his experience writing Infodex, making the code available, and being available for questions. Ryan also contributed fixes to the "EZLinks" functions after I left Michigan.
'tdawg' on the #php channel of IRC, who helped me figure out a problem in my code from an Internet cafe in Costa Rica!
Tony Dagoski, formerly of UM Digital Library Production Service
Cory Snavely, UM Digital Library Production Service
University of Michigan and North Carolina State University computing environments, where I have done most of the coding and website development.
CaRP, code used for display of the RSS newsfeed on this site's home page.

K. Libner
Raleigh, North Carolina / USA

E-mail: kslibner "at" users.sourceforge.net