Alex is a set of GPL'ed Perl scripts for managing a small library. It is designed to be easy to set up, easy to use, very customizable, and self-contained. Specifically, it is designed to let you type in your books, change a few paths, and get going without worrying about mySQL or anything.
Alex is divided into two parts, the client and the server. The server handles loading and searching the list of books, and a client makes requests for the server and displays the data. The only client included right now is a web interface allowing simple and/or queries, viewing of results, and viewing of the full records for results.
Note: Alex is my first attempt at programming a non-trivial program in Perl and my first attempt at any sort at CGI and Web programming, so it probably has many bugs and very messy code. On the plus side, it works well and is easier to deal with than anything else open source I've seen.
Alex is distributed freely under the GNU GPL (see COPYING). I would appreciate it, however, if you would send me a short message at orodnoldo@hotmail.com if you use the software or think you might at some point, so I know if I should continue to work on the project or not. If you have any comments, complaints, suggestions, offers of large sums of completely undeserved cash, death threats for my ugly code, etc., you can send them to the above address, too. Also, if you would like to receive ocassional e-mails when significant new features/bug fixes are added, tell me; other than that I won't store or distribute your e-mail address in any way.