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Resources

For an introduction to how Drupal can be used by libraries, take a look at Ellyssa Kroski's excellent overview.

Service Providers For Libraries

There are many Drupal consulting and service provider companies who provide services that are useful for libraries or who have domain specific knowledge which makes them valuable to libraries. This wiki is meant to provide an overview of some of those companies. If you should be listed here, edit away.

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Drupalcon DC Libraries BoF

Start: 
2009-03-05 11:30 - 12:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 

We will post the room on the BoFs board when it becomes available, hursday morning.

See you there.

Post questions here or look for highermath (me) or domesticat on IRC (#drupalcon).

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Libraries BoF - Thursday, Mar 4th, 11:30 AM (space t/b/d Thu AM) (was: What restaurant...)

Fado Irish Pub (brewpub)
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Matchbox (pizza)
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Kanlaya (Thai)
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Mayur Kabab House (Indian)
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Eat First (Chinese)
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No opinion. Just feed me, Seymour.
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Total votes: 0
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Libraries BoF - Thursday, Mar 4th, 11:30 AM (space t/b/d Thu AM) (was: Which BoF space...)

Friday, 11:30am - 12:30pm
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Friday, 3pm - 4:15pm
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Friday, 4:45pm - 5:15 pm
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I'm indecisive - make up my mind for me!
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Thursday, 11:30am - 12:30pm (added by Cary Gordon)
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Total votes: 0
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Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF

Start: 
2009-03-20 13:30 - 16:00 America/Chicago
Organizers: 

I'm pleased to announce a Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF on Friday, 3/20 (1:30p-4p) at DePaul's Loop Campus, 1 E. Jackson (10th fl., Rm# 10028), Chicago.

GOALS OF THE CHICAGOLAND DRUPAL4LIB BoF

The Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF will be an opportunity for librarians to get together and discuss how they use (or would like to use) Drupal in a library context. We'll ask people to present projects they're working on and we'll field questions on problems and approaches to implementing Drupal. All levels of knowledge from expert to n00b are welcome.

Also, since we're the 'host' city for the ALA Convention in Chicago in July, we'll have an opportunity to think about what we might want to do for that.

This Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF is a follow-up to our successful get-togethers last year at the Metropolitan Librarian System and at the wildly sold-out Chicago Drupal BarCamp in October.

CHICAGOLAND DRUPAL4LIB BoF - QUARTERLY BASIS

We'll be doing one of these on a quarterly basis -- or at least that's the intention. The people at DePaul have kindly made their location available for March; We'll be meeting at McCormick Place as part of ALA in July; After that we'll be meeting at the downtown offices of the Metropolitan Library System (MLS).

PARTICIPATION AND SUGGESTIONS

It goes without saying that your participation and suggestions are welcome. The format is free and open enough to accommodate a ton of different ideas and needs.

Feel free to sign up below and either leave a comment or email me. And everyone start planning for an informative and rewarding event -- on 3/20!

Hope to see you,

Leo Klein
ChicagoLibrarian.org

UPDATE: TRANSPORTATION

LINK TO: Driving instructions to DePaul's Loop Campus...

There are a number of Parking Lots close to the DePaul Center (Jackson & State). You need to come south on Wabash to just past Jackson. There's a Self-Service Parking Lot on the west and east sides of the street between Jackson and VanBuren.

LINK TO: Street map from DePaul (pdf)...

UPDATE: See Draft Agenda...

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Starter Theme Comparison Chart

Libraries new to Drupal often wonder where to begin with finding a theme for their website. If you are planning to customize a theme, there are several starter themes that will give you a basic layout along with many of the dreaded cross browser CSS fixes. Choosing one of these starter themes can still be daunting.

Luckily I found a fantastic chart that compares the features of most of them.
Starter Theme Comparison Chart

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highermath's picture

Drupal 6 version of Millennium module available for download

This is a dev release.

http://drupal.org/project/millennium

I excised the personal contact info from the quoted email.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Drupal 6 version of Millennium module available for download
From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez
Organization: Dirección de Biblioteca, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Monterrey
To: NGC4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Just a quick note...

The development version (e.g. "still changing") of the Millennium
integration module for Drupal 6 is now out.

http://drupal.org/project/millennium

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mossj's picture

IP Authentication

Can Drupal IP authenticate users? I'm looking to use Drupal in a law library setting. We have several subscriptions that are IP authenticated so you do not have to enter a user name or password.

Thaks for any tips or suggestions,
John

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Ideas for Drupal4Lib IG Event at ALA in Chicago?

This is still a while off but I thought I'd put out an initial request before the holidays officially begin. It's a request for ideas and suggestions for the meeting of the LITA Drupal4Lib Interest Group at the 2009 ALA Conference in Chicago.

Feel free to leave comments either here or on the LITA Blog at:

http://tinyurl.com/Drupal4LibALAchicago

LAST JUNE/JULY IN ANAHEIM

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Do It With Drupal Library Meetup

I'm getting pumped for Do It With Drupal coming up in December. (That, and for getting to visit New Orleans for the first time in 15 years!) I'd like to organize a library meetup either over lunch or in the evening on the 10th. It would be great to meet some of you in person and hear how you are using Drupal at your library. Who's with me??

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Do It With Drupal Discount for Libraries

Hello Drupal library people!

I'd like to extend a 10% registration discount for The Do It With Drupal Seminar to everyone in the Libraries group. To receive the discount enter the code LIBRARY at the checkout. This discount code expires on November 21st (a week from tomorrow).

Do It With Drupal is a large-scale conference-style learning event happening in New Orleans, December 10, 11, and 12th. We've got a lot of superstar speakers from both Drupal and the greater web community. The event is being organized by Lullabot and features speakers such as Earl Miles (Views), Karen Stevenson (CCK), Moshe Weitzman (Organic Groups), John Resig (author of jQuery), Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome), Heather Champ (Flickr Community Manager), Chris Messina (Flock, DiSo, etc), Angie Byron (Drupal 7 maintainer), Addi Berry (Drupal Dojo), and many more.

For more information about the event please visit http://doitwithdrupal.com . Be sure not to miss the latest schedule and the blog for the latest news.

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Building a Thematic Library with Drupal presentation

Here is a link to a presentation we did on how we built a special site for library health resources--an OPAC built on Drupal, Solr, the Millennium integration module and Google Custom Search Engine.

http://biblioteca.mty.itesm.mx/mty/workingtogether/Developing_a_Thematic...

You can visit the working site here: http://biblioteca.mty.itesm.mx/pasteur/

This was part of the University of Maryland/Tecnológico de Monterrey sister libraries conference, "Working Together".

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Drupal performance tuning / server configuration questions

I'm in the process of setting up a Drupal 6 site for a reasonably large urban public library in Canada, with an expectation that the site will receive about 5,000 visits a day. It's going on a Windows box that will be hosting two other separate applications, each on different installed servers (IIS with a library events application and ezproxy). We have a separate database server in place to hopefully give us plenty of room to grow. [more]

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Tips on creating a huge page of links

Does anyone have any good advice for creating a content type for links? Does anyone know a better way to do this than what I describe in the following?

Our library has a huge page of links for finding good books to read. There are several headings that take you to different parts to the page via anchors. Anyhow, take a look at it. You'll get it as soon as you see it.

http://www.hooverlibrary.org/goodbooks

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february28's picture

Customization Details?

It would be helpful if we could share details on what themes we are using and how they've been modified, especially front pages. Currently I am developing a site for Stony Brook University Libraries using the Beginning W2 theme, and I would appreciate learning what others use and why, and how you've modified it.

Related to this, I am bursting to learn how others have modified any of your *.tpl.php pages.

I will post more as I continue my design and implementation for SBU libs.

Thanks very much :)

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Drupal developer | The Cherry Hill Company

Employment type: 
Full time
Employment type: 
Contract
Telecommute: 
Allowed

The Cherry Hill Company

Job Description: Drupal developer

Job type: contract to hire

Location: One day a week in Culver city office and telecommute, or more office time at developer option.

Summary

  • As a member of a team of autonomous Drupalistas. the developer will create and maintain Drupal modules and themes (code side).
  • As a representative of the Cherry Hill Company, the developer will be given time to work on projects benefiting the Drupal community.

Responsibilities

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Libraries BoF at BADCamp

Start: 
2008-10-12 11:15 - 12:15 US/Pacific

The Libraries birds of a feather session at the Bay Area Drupal Camp will be held at 11:15 AM on Sunday, October 12th. The schedule should be up soon at http://badcamp.net/

highermath's picture

METRO Hosts "Drupal In Libraries" Workshop

Start: 
2008-10-15 10:00 - 2008-10-16 04:00 US/Eastern

Drupal in the Libraries [340007]

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highermath's picture

John Blyberg releases SOPAC2 beta

John Blyberg has released the first public beta of SOPAC2, the social catalog system for Drupal that he started at Ann Arbor District Library and has continued to develop for the newly launched Darien Public Library catalog.

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Library Drupal BoF in Chicago

Start: 
2008-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 America/Chicago
Organizers: 

Just a preliminary head's up that we'll be having a Library Drupal BoF as part of the Chicago Drupal Camp taking place at UIC on Friday & Saturday, Oct. 24 & 25.

They're still working on the program, but the Library BoF will be on Friday (10/24) in the early afternoon (probably starting at 2pm or 3pm). Location: Innovation Center (1240 W. Harrison - near Racine) in Chicago. (website: http://drupalcampchicago.org)

The goals of the Library BoF (besides getting together) are:

  • Showcase library-related Drupal projects in the Chicagoland area.
  • Talk about future plans and aspirations, field questions and compare experiences.

So whether you've done a project or would like to do a project, this event is for you. We had a great time doing this in Anaheim for ALA and it's good to organize something similar for the home team.

Mark you calendars today!

UPDATE (9/26/08): Here's the official link for the event on the Drupal Camp Chicago site:

http://drupalcampchicago.org/day1-session3b

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