Libraries

Based on the success of the first Libraries Summit at this past DrupalCon, there's going to be one next year at DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 as well!

The planning team has started meeting and we're looking for your input on what sessions we should have. In Seattle, we had great sessions talking about topics like decoupling and content management, as well as some meaningful breakout sessions on topics like security, accessibility, and events management. So what should we have in Minneapolis?

Are you an academic, public, school, or special library Drupaler? If so, join us at the Libraries Summit at DrupalCon on Tuesday, April 9 at the Washington State Convention Center.

The Summit will unite fellow library technologists for a day of discussion, collaboration, and inspiration in all things library and Drupal. Attendees will gain insight on how libraries across North America are using Drupal to serve their communities, as well learn tips and strategies to make their sites more usable, more secure, and more accessible.

There's going to be a Libraries Summit at DrupalCon Seattle!

We've started brainstorming and planning but we want your ideas too. Is there a topic you're particularly interested in? A module or 3rd-party integration you think would be a great demo/workshop? A cool project you've heard about or were involved with that might make a great case study? I'd love to hear them.

Drupal Jobs post: https://jobs.drupal.org/worthington-libraries/job/14684

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Official Drupal Jobs Post: https://jobs.drupal.org/ucla-library/job/14509

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The Indian Ministry of Culture has initiated a project to digitise India's libraries and make the content available online. The initiative is called the National Virtual Library of India (http://www.nmlindia.nic.in/pages/display/38-national-virtual-library-of-india-(nvli)) and is is a massive project being executed under the guidance of IIT Mumbai. My Company, UniMity Solutions, along with a few others who are in the Drupal space in India have been selected to build the initial prototype.

Hello everyone,

I am a new comer to this group, since i did not know about the existence of this Drupal- Libraries group until attended a BOF session at Drupalcon New Orleans this week.

My Library is currently looking into the possibility of moving to Acquia or Panthenon to host our drupal sites because we do not have DevOps engineer nor server administrators, and most likely would not have the resource to recruit one.

My questions to you would be that:
Are you library using a cloud-based hosting? If you, what is your overall experience?

Thanks in advance!

Neena

The polling is in and July 16th is the preferred day for the camp. I have reserved the space with the Libraries, now we need to get organizing.

TRACKS/Breakout Sessions

The 2016 Michigan Drupal Camp will be hosted at the MSU Main Library in East Lansing, MI. Save the date and check back here for signup information. Unique to this camp, there will be a track for Digital Humanities and Drupal in Libraries.

Hi there. I have a problem with D7. My node titles are converting some symbols to html entities. IE: '&' is converted to '&' etc. This happens on all content types and regardless of whether I'm using automatic node titles. Here's a few examples:

http://dev-ppld-sandbox.gotpantheon.com/databases/library-information-sc...

http://dev-ppld-sandbox.gotpantheon.com/press-releases/new-facility-will...

Hello everyone. Are there any Libraries using the Entity Registration module for your Event/Program Registration? This is something we're trying to implement on our site in the future, but want to know how it worked for others.

A quick heads-up that I've just added a Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon Barcelona, to discuss Drupal for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums). If anyone with interest or experience in using Drupal for this is going to be there next week, it'd be great to see you there.

https://events.drupal.org/barcelona2015/bofs/drupal-glam-galleries-libra...

Hi there, I'm hoping a SQL ninja will find it in his or her heart to provide me with some advice.

I've created a page view which does the following:

1. Pulls in nodes from two different content types
2. Filters by two different term references, one for each content type.

It's not working, although in my mind (and limited sql understanding), it should. I think maybe there's an issue with the inner joins, because it seems the sql statement would working if they weren't there.

Anyways, I've attached two images, one of the api and one of the actual sql statement.

Hi,
I have just gotten involved in a Digital Library project for which we are considering to use Drupal. I have started looking through the existing digital library projects using Drupal and wondered which distro is best suited for our current requirements. We have started off with a small set of bibliographic data (around 1500) correlated with images (for manuscripts and books) of which some are provided with full text search capabilities via an implementation of the IA BookReader (https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader).

The Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) is planning to replace our current Drupal 6 website with a mobile-friendly Drupal 7 website. We are seeking to contract with a creative and experienced Drupal developer to build and deliver a complex and feature-rich Drupal 7 installation, including the design of a customized responsive theme, and migration of content from our existing Drupal 6 site.

The deadline for proposals is 3:00pm CDT on Wednesday, September 16, 2015.