Libraries

Join us for informal presentations on Drupal. Librarians, IT, etc. are welcome to learn from experienced Drupal users during presentation time and share problems/experiences/interesting tricks during the open share time.

Where?
Oak Park Public Library, 2nd floor Veterans Room
834 Lake St.
Oak Park, IL 60301

Parking is available in the garage beneath the library, and on the street.

Contact:
Mick Jacobsen
847.673.7774
mjacobsen@skokielibrary.info

Join us Tuesday, April 17th @ 1pm EST for this information-packed webinar, after which we'll open up the floor for Q & A.

REGISTER NOW: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613265489

Universities often have content, such as research databases, which requires a lot of information to be presented at once. This can often be difficult to attractively display, and allow for easy search and discovery.

Tuesday, April 3rd @ 1pm EST
Register now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/950320081

In the higher ed web environment, there are often a wide variety of administrative users. While we want the creation and maintenance of content to be easy, we also want to guarantee that non-technical content creators cannot "break" the site.

Houston Libraries Drupal Interest Group
April Meeting

Tuesday, April 3, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Rice University Fondren Library, Room 410

A Tutorial on Installing Drupal on a Remote Server
Speaker: Chris Pound, Developer and Systems Administrator, Rice University Enterprise Applications

Directions to Rice campus: http://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/How_to_Get_Here.asp
Map: http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html (Fondren Library is building 25 near the center of the map)

The Google Books module http://drupal.org/project/google_books is a filter module and an API for the Google Books service, that permits a user to insert rich Google book data, cover images, and inline book readers into nodes via filters with data retrieved from the http://books.google.com domain. The API also allows data to be pulled into flat arrays indexed by the text biblio field identifiers like 'author' or 'title.'

On Monday, March 19th, we are organizing a Drupal in Education unconference in Denver; the event will be held at Del Pueblo School. This meetup will follow an unconference format, so if there is something you want to talk about, propose a topic, find some like-minded individuals, and let the conversation start.

I'd like to let you know about a new Drupal 7 website released on Valentine’s Day 14 February 2012 by the State Library of Victoria.

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond
http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and-devotion

The LITA Drupal Interest Group has put together a super quick (12-question, 10-15 minutes) survey for Drupal developers who are based in, or work primarily for, library environments of all types.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22E9TCFXQ3H

We'll report the results out at the IG meeting at ALA Midwinter, Saturday, January 21st at 1:30, and also online via ALA Connect (visible to all, not just ALA members).

Thanks in advance!

Nina McHale of Arapahoe Library District, CO and Rachel Vacek of University of Houston will present Getting Started with Drupal. This workshop will provide a thorough introduction to the Drupal content management system. Presenter will guide attendees as they create Drupal sites in a sandbox environment, covering the basics of content creation, themes, modules, and user management. Demonstrations of innovative Drupal sites, including library sites, library intranets, and an electronic journal will be provided. Previous web experience is helpful, but not required.

Did you suck at Drupal? Have you been responsible for a Drupal-related disaster? Or perhaps you’ve created a mess of another CMS? You are not alone!

Consider serving on the Drupal Fail Panel at the LITA Drupal Interest Group Meeting at ALA Midwinter in Dallas. The meeting takes place on Saturday, January 21st, from 1:30-3:30 in room A310 of the Dallas Convention Center.

Drupal FAIL might include:

*Installation FAIL
*Migration FAIL
*Permissions FAIL
*Upgrade FAIL
*Taxonomy FAIL
*Module FAIL
*Theme FAIL
*Roll-out FAIL
*Marketing FAIL

Our library is looking for a way for customers to request a room or equipment reservation from our Drupal site. We would like our staff to be able to select a room for library-sponsored events and programs as well while they are entering the details about the upcoming program. Has anyone got a recipe of modules that might help accomplish this task without being too difficult for the public? If possible, we would like to incorporate a financial piece for accepting deposits.

Update

The registration for this event is now open!

• Info/Announcement: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211118
• Register: https://denverdrupaled.eventbrite.com
• Propose a discussion topic: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211108

End update

Hello, all,

With DrupalCon Denver coming up in approximately 4 months, I wanted to see if there was interest in an Education-specific unconference on Monday, the 19th, the day before DrupalCon begins.

REMINDER: "Success with Drupal Web Development Vendors" Survey
(We have had a great response! Thanks to all that have already completed the survey.)

As more organizations are adopting Drupal as their platform of choice for complex web projects the number of development firms offering services is increasing rapidly. How often do relationships with Drupal web development vendors succeed? How often do they fail? Why?

Does anyone have resources (like step-by-step tutorials) for building templates in Drupal? As part of my library job, I'm being pushed into designing templates which will need stuff like image resizing capabilities, uploading stuff, etc. I know very little PHP. The regular Drupal forums haven't been very fruitful so I decided to try out the libraries + Drupal community on here for pointers!

Thanks.

Success with Drupal Web Development Vendors Survey (Thanks to all that have already completed this survey!)

As more organizations are adopting Drupal as their platform of choice for complex web projects the number of development firms offering services is increasing rapidly. How often do relationships with Drupal web development vendors succeed? How often do they fail? Why?

As more organizations are adopting Drupal as their platform of choice for complex web projects the number of development firms offering services is increasing rapidly. How often do relationships with Drupal web development vendors succeed? How often do they fail? Why?

The purpose of this short anonymous survey is to gain insight into the dynamics between Drupal website development firms and their clients. Basically, as a community, we want to take a quick temperature check as to how things are going. If you complete this survey, we’ll share the aggregate results with you.

Isovera and Acquia are invading North Carolina with "Site Building with Drupal"! In two days, participants will be brought up to speed on Drupal and will be ready to tackle their own project. Learn how to manage media, build calendars and complex, dynamic queries of content by selecting and configuring the most popular modules.

This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. Participants will also review Drupal's block system and using taxonomy to categorize their content.

By the end of the training you will be able to:

I just enrolled in this online class from Stanford: Introduction to Databases (http://www.db-class.org/). I don't have any idea what the quality of the lectures or class materials will be (or how helpful it may be to Drupal developers), but nothing lost in checking it out!

If anyone else enrolls and wants to study together (aka: let me benefit from your superior intellect!) just hit me up.

I am trying to create event registration forms for my library's website. The Signup module its too restrictive in that it won't allow me to easily add custom fields (since the info the Children's Librarian need differs from the adult job search classes) for each event type.

I also need the system to automatically handle email and possibly SMS text messages. It'd be great if the information about registered patrons was ready to export.

Right now I'm experimenting with CCK Signup bit the documentation is nearly nonexistent.

Help!

We've put the final bits of our Drupal migration project out to bid, for those who may be interested. The RFP is available at: http://www.biznet.ct.gov/SCP_Search/BidDetail.aspx?CID=22626
It includes consultation and implementation of Apache Solr, as well as performance optimization.