Phpmylibrary
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PhpMyLibrary is a PHP MySQL Library automation application. The program consist of cataloging, circulation, and the webpac module. The programs also has an import export feature. The program strictly follows the USMARC standard for adding materials, which is the official Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format for digital catalogs for libraries in the United States.
The application is popular in certain academic environments such as small university libraries.
PhpMyLibrary was developed by Polerio T. Babao III as his academic undergraduate thesis in Institute of Library and Information Science University of the Philippines, Diliman year 1998-2003. Though initial released was made 2001 as shown at Sourceforge.net, the final code has been done in 2003 and was released as open source library system following Koha, as the first open source Perl-based library system. Unfortunately the thesis wasn't successful. Today 2006, PhpMyLibrary have been used worldwide by small libraries that handles 10,000 to 100,000 catalog records. The PhpMyLibrary is now part of the three popular open source library system worldwide which include Koha, OpenBiblio, and PhpMyLibrary.