In the MySQL Community team, our charter is to serve the MySQL community — new and old MySQL users alike. One of the ways we do this is by facilitating information exchange between community members, where the new can learn from the old.

And there’s been lots of that information exchange going on, such as over mailing lists (in the early days the dominant vehicle), forums, and Planet MySQL.

One problem with this information exchange has been its ephemeral nature. The same questions pop up for many new users, and should they for some reason not be amongst the issues solved in the MySQL documentation, chances are you’ll have to know quite precisely what you’re looking for when coming up with your Google search phrases. Of course, browsing Planet MySQL is a great way of keeping up to date about how others are using MySQL — but what happened on the Planet six months ago, or a year ago? With currently 16940 (sixteen thousand ninehundred and forty) entries, you won’t by chance pop into the most interesting ones.

Enter the MySQL Librarian. The MySQL Librarian knows what the library contains. Ask the MySQL Librarian for what’s popular, and you’ll be answered.

How does the librarian know? Well, the librarian asks the library visitors (that’s people like you!) for what’s interesting, and whether it’s good.

For more on MySQL Librarian,

• just take a look at it on http://dev.mysql.com/librarian/
• read Giuseppe Maxia’s intro from two weeks ago http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/the_mysql_librarian_is_here ,
• read the Dev Zone introductory article http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/introducing-librarian.html

or

• read the MySQL Librarian FAQ at http://dev.mysql.com/librarian/faq.html
• read Roberto Galoppini’s review at http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/07/19/the-mysql-librarian-initiative/

Currently, there are 217 entries in it. It contains what our user community think it is the-best-of-the-best from what the community has produced, and it’s tagged and voted for.

Thanks to Dups for coding this, to Giuseppe for leading the efforts and publishing it, and to everyone in the community who has already entered items into the library (at the same time not forgetting those who wrote the items in the first place).

Hence: Go take a look at the MySQL Librarian! Add new items to it (presentations, pictures, videos, articles, and books)! Tag items for easy searching! Vote, so others know what you liked!

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