path for personal library

I am trying to set up a library for my own modules. According to
*Object Oreinted Perl,* (Conway), I should do the following:

PERL5LIB=${PERL5LIB}:/home/paul/perl5
export PERL5LIB

However, this doesn't work for me. If I put a module in the
directory "/home/paul/perl5", then my perl scripts tell me it
can't find the module. If I use

use lib "/home/paul/perl5";

Then I don't get an error message.

How do I set a permanent path for my own personal library?

Thanks

Paul

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*Paul Tremblay         *
*phthenry@earthlink.net*
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• path for personal library by Paul Tremblay
• RE: path for personal library by Timothy Johnson