According to the lib documentation, the list of directories passed to lib are added to the start of the list - That is saying:
use lib LIST;
is equivalent to
BEGIN { unshift(@INC, LIST) }
And as such the directory specified will be searched first, rather than last as you suggest.
I suggest you look at the list which you are passing to lib and also look at what values are contained in @INC immediately prior to your use CGI statement.
Update
Another interesting module which you may want to look at FindBin whose documentation you can find here which allows library directories to be based upon the script location.
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rob-au,
You are right, of course, that the directory gets tacked onto the "left end" of the @INC. My error. I am having some success with your FindBin suggestion........But my experimentation seems to suggest that the web hosts (buggy) CGI.pm gets picked instead of mine in mylib. The only way I've made some progress is by renaming my CGI.pm as CGI279.pm & specifying the line "use CGI279" in my Perl script........Due to semester starting (I teach), I will have to suspend my efforts for now. But thanks for the useful guidance. Tom
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