diff --git a/README b/README
index 7d8a3de..427b3f6 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,15 +1,30 @@
 
- This is the directory for the Bioperl C compiled Extensions.
-The main author for this is Ewan Birney <birney@sanger.ac.uk>
+This is the directory for the Bioperl C compiled Extensions.
 
- To install...
+These currently include:
 
- cd into Bio/Ext/Align
- go perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test (should print out alignment on STDERR)
- make install (probably need root permissions).
+   Bio::Ext::Align (Ewan Birney <birney@sanger.ac.uk>)
+   Bio::SeqIO::staden::read (Aaron Mackey <amackey@virginia.edu>)
 
+To install all of the extension packages, you can use the top-level
+Makefile.PL (present in the same directory you're reading this README
+from) (Make sure you read the various notes below about each package
+before doing this!):
+
+  perl Makefile.PL
+  make
+  make test
+  make install (may need root permissions)
+
+To install only the individual extensions you wish to have, change directories into each and use the Makefile.PL found there; for example:
+
+  cd Bio/Ext/Align
+  perl Makefile.PL
+  make
+  make test (should print out alignment on STDERR)
+  make install (probably need root permissions).
+
+Notes for Bio::Ext::Align
 
 Although these extensions can be called by themselves, they
 really need the main bioperl distribution to drive them. The
@@ -19,6 +34,27 @@ modules which do this are
    Bio::SearchDist - deals with EVD fitting of extreme value distributions
 
 For more information on how to use these modules, read their own documentation
-(go perldoc Bio::Tools::pSW ...)
+(perldoc Bio::Tools::pSW ...)
+
+
+Notes for Bio::SeqIO::staden::read
+
+This extension needs the rest of the main bioperl distribution to
+function properly.  It is only useful as a helper module for the SeqIO
+system to read sequence trace files handled by the Staden package's
+io_lib "read" library.  You should have this library installed prior
+to installing Bio::SeqIO::staden::read, it's currently available at:
+
+  ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/staden/io_lib/
+
+The make process will prompt you for the LIB and INCLUDE locations
+(usually /usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/io_lib, respectively) of
+the io_lib "libread" library and Read.h header files, after trying to
+automatically find them.  You may also specify these via the
+environment variables "IOLIB_LIB" and "IOLIB_INC", or via identically
+named options to perl Makefile.PL:
+
+  perl Makefile.PL IOLIB_LIB=/opt/lib IOLIB_INC=/opt/include/io_lib
 
+Ignore any warnings about these options being unknown to MakeMaker.