I'm not sure I'm answering my original question regarding best practices but using your advice I found the following works to load YAML files that are in a folder "next" to my modules.

Within my module:

use File::Basename;
my $current_package = __PACKAGE__;
my $path_to_module = dirname($INC{"$current_package.pm"});
my $path_to_yaml = $path_to_module;
$path_to_yaml =~ s{modules}{yaml};
my $yaml_config = LoadFile($path_to_yaml.'/file_i_want_to_load.yaml');

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Thanks very much for your help.

In reply to Re^2: Help with Best Practices for Module Paths when scripting across multiple machines by mwb613
in thread Help with Best Practices for Module Paths when scripting across multiple machines by mwb613

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