Libraries

Only local images are allowed. I know a couple of library people are going to DrupalCon in Portland in a week or two.

Looks to me like a great opportunity to get together and talk shop. So how about if we organize a Drupal4Lib BoF -- maybe on the Wednesday (5/22) sometime mid-day or in the early afternoon?

Topics could be open or suggested ahead of time. People could present projects they're working on, ask whatever questions they want. It'd be a great time!

Feel free to leave a suggestion here or email me back. Is this a good general time to meet? Do you have a topic you'd want to suggest?

Any feedback is appreciated! And hope to see you in Portland!

From a short cursory look at some of the proposed sessions, in no particular order:

• The Library of the Future - Solr Search and Responsive Design for Multnomah County Library
• Re-imagining libraries on the web: a case study of the Stanford University Libraries website redesign
• Migrating the Library [GWU]

I may have missed something so feel free to add.

Description:

Learn how to get custom functionality using Drupal’s hook system, as well as how to extend or alter contributed module functionality. Participants in this course will have used Fields, Views and Panels to create websites but have never built their own module. Participants will start writing a simple module to writing a complex module, step by step which uses Forms API, Schema API, all of the top ten Drupal hooks, creates custom database tables.

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of PHP, and experience with Drupal site building and site management.

In September 2012, after hearing the Community Cultivation Grants form the DA announce several times on the Drupal Easy podcast, I applied for one and got it.

The grant was for 240ドル towards starting an all-ages friendly local contribution focused meet-up in Oak Park Illinois USA (which is a suburb just outside of Chicago). We meet at the Oak Park Public Library.

The grant covered 72ドル for 6 months of meetup.com
http://www.meetup.com/vopdug/
Reservations for space to meet at the local library was 20ドル/month. We met there 5 times.

I recently completed the migration of the North Dakota State University Libraries website from WordPress to Drupal. I was new to Drupal when I started, and the migration and design team was me, so the team didn't really know what it was doing for a while. :)

I'm using Drupal Acquia 6 with the Millennium OPAC Module.

I'm ultimately trying to make it possible for our site visitors to subscribe via email to an RSS view I've created (yes - I know emailing RSS feeds is anachronistic, but this is what the client wants). So I am trying to burn my feed to google feedburner so I can leverage their email subscription and statistics tools (but if anyone knows of a better/pure Drupal solution, I would love to hear about it. Please note: the solution has to allow unauthenticated users to subscribe).

Hello All

We have been planning to create an extensive online library. I have been looking around in drupal for a couple of days and came across some modules and examples. But still I am wondering if there are specific modules that should be used!

I would like to elaborate our case as follows:
We aim not only to make a catalog of books [with all its specifications, Book Title, Author, Genre, Pages, Publishing Year, Edition, Publisher, Keywords] but also completing it with biographies of authors, book reviews and discussions.

Hello library Drupalers,

I am setting out to create an online book club in Drupal and I am looking for some suggestions/advice.

Here's the basics of the functionality: book club admins create individual book clubs, send out emails to club members, create discussion topics.

Book club members either create a new website account or user their current account to sign up for a book club. Users only post to discussions and receive email pertaining to clubs they sign up for.

As part of ELAG 2013 (European Library Automation Group's annual conference - 2013 May 28 – May 31, Ghent, Belgium) we organize a workshop entitled Drupal in Libraries.

The workshop will have two sessions, and an occasion to give report of what we did.

Hi All,

For those folks going to ALA in Chicago (or even if you are not) it would be great if you could vote for the session - "Liberate Your Information" - Revolutionizing the Library Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) with Drupal.

Kelly Lucas did a lightening session on this at Code4Lib, but this is a fantastic topic for anyone interested in seeing the infinite possibilities with Drupal - in this case integrating with third-party library systems.

Take two seconds to vote, just click here:

http://connect.ala.org/node/201533

Thanks!

hello, we have a D6 multi-site (30 sites) and is using webfm module in all of them. our drupal files is around 10gb (and growing) and webfm indexes these files into database during cron run, and this process is taking up resources and takes some time to complete. then we do the same task or webfm indexing for all 30 sites, so they all add up to lots of resources and execution time.

Hello, All,

Has anybody integrated Dear Reader or Book Letters with their site? What has your experience been? What's it like to hook it into Drupal? If you have 10 or 12 words of advice please share.

Thanks

brookhartlibrarian@gmail.com

Hey all

Just wanted to let you know that some of the folks here at Isovera have written blog entries geared specifically toward the library community. Subjects range from using Drupal to process fines, utilizing SEO, as well as a host of other topics. A selection of library-focused blog entries can be found below:

A Fine Way to Process Library Fines with Drupal Commerce

Brian Smith of RAILS will talk about using the Adaptive Image and Flex Slider modules to create slideshows that automatically set image file sizes for display on mobile devices, large monitors, and everything in between. Michael Buhmann of the Skokie Public Library will discuss the new design and some of the modules for Skokienet.org. This event will be hosted in Skokie Library's new Business Center.

Beginners to advanced users are welcome, those who know teach.

For you non-drivers, the Skokie Swift drops you off walking distance to the library.

Skokie Public Library

Has anyone created training materials for editors on your staff? Our libraries are new to Drupal, and I want to make sure they get the best training possible so they aren't frustrated with the change in platforms.

Please join us next Monday at the Code4Lib Drupal in Libraries pre-con/barcamp at the University of Illinois Chicago Forum. This full day event is free for Code4Lib attendees and a crazy low 10ドル (donation asked) for folks from the library community.

Drupal uber-guru and Drupal 8 web services initiative lead, Larry Garfield (crell), will be joining us in the morning to give use a taste of what's coming and to answer questions. If you are in the area, drop what you are doing and join us.

Please join us next Monday at the Code4Lib Drupal in Libraries pre-con/barcamp at the University of Illinois Chicago Forum. This full day event is free for Code4Lib attendees and a crazy low 10ドル (donation asked) for folks from the library community.

Drupal uber-guru and Drupal 8 web services initiative lead, Larry Garfield, will be joining us in the morning to give use a taset of what's coming and to answer questions. If you are in the area, drop what you are doing and join us.

Hi all,

Anyone up for a collaboration to build a multisite for small- to mid-sized journals?

Let me explain.

OP2 did a marvelous job for me way back. I showed the possibilities and what one can achieve with Drupal. In my case this resulted in a website that has a complete archive of a literature journal, with author-controlled biographies, blogs, events... and hopefully soon an e-shop (cf. Ubercard), mobile webapp (cf. Services), metadata-standards based exports (MarcXML, MODS), archival/preservation (cf. exports to Internet archive)...

I am trying to build a simple web application to view items in a Fedora repository. I am aware of the Islandora project, but our team was not satisfied with it as a solution (I am not criticizing their hard-work!). I am looking to build an alternative module / feature / cookbook to contribute back to the Drupal community that would be helpful for other archival institutions who want to implement a Drupal solution for a digital archive / repository.

Hello. I'm a new to drupal and I have started working on my first project which is creating an online library management system. Where students and staff can be able to log in, search(by title, author)/add books, fines, view their history e.t.c. If you have ever created one or have any tips or modules to use, i'll gladly appreciate any help you provide