drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

Kate Lynch's session, "Shh, This is a (Drupal-powered) Library Site", made the cut for DrupalCon San Francisco. It is currently slated for 9:45 AM on Wednesday, April 21.

The room holds about 400, so we need to turn out for it. If you haven't planned to go, there are still plenty of tickets at a mere $195 (for another two weeks, I think), so please join us in one of the most beautiful cities in the world for three days of Drupal, food, and a few good librarians. http://sf2010.drupal.org

Congratulations to Kate and her co-presenters.

Libraries

Does anyone have any insight into how we might convert our access database which resides on one staff members computer - containing orders; processes reports etc for acquisitions in our public library system?

Libraries

I am working with bookings API-- have all modules needed enabled - I entered a room but can't figure out how to enter days/times available - I work for a public library system with 9 buildings and community rooms in each - when I edit the resource it open booking in Views and I am not sure how to configure to have times available for each room--any help much appreciated

Booking Systems

Just a reminder that voting for DrupalConSF sessions ends March 1st. If you're attending and want to see one of these library-oriented sessions, please vote for them:

• Shh! This is a (Drupal-powered) Library Site!
• Drupal in Libraries
• SOPAC and Millennium: Two approaches to integrating your library catalog with your Drupal website

Apologies if there's a library-oriented session I missed in the above list. Please add a comment if that's the case.

By 2nd week of March, sessions that made the cut should be posted. If any of these don't make the cut, we may be able to have them as part of BoF sessions.

Libraries

Hi folks,

I've run into a problem that I hope someone can help with. My library district has a lot of vendor database subscriptions, but a handful of these databases are only available at certain branches or just inhouse.

Currently we use a vbscript file that defines the branch IP range for each branch. If the vendor database is tagged with that branch in a home-grown SQL database access is limited to that branch.

I can't figure out how to limit access to vendor databases in Drupal using an internal IP range. We won't be having users log in at this point, so that isn't an option.

Currently, our databases are entered as a Content Type.

Are there any libraries out there that are doing this in Drupal? If so, can you please please drop me some hints?

Thank you so much in advance!

Virginia Franklyn
Web Developer
Pikes Peak Library District

Libraries

I was interviewed for an article that got published today in Library Journal: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6716990.html. This was the first time I've been interviewed for an article about Drupal. I hope I represented Drupal and the Drupal community well. Please feel free to post feedback here, or contact me with it, which I will happily take into account in any future interviews or writings, if there are any. Much thanks to Karen Coombs for writing the article and to Library Journal for publishing it.

Libraries

Thank you to those who are looking into possible venues for the LibraryCamp
I'd like to offer this thread as a chance for those looking into venues to report to the group on the opportunities that exist.

Thank you,
Doug Vann

Libraries

Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO Drupal Developer--Temp Position Employment type:  Full time Telecommute:  Not allowed

The Douglas County Libraries has a f/t (40 hrs/wk) Drupal Developer position available in our IT Department. This is a temporary job, lasting for about 9 – 12 months. The position will support our transition from the Drupal 5 to the Drupal 6 platform. The position will work with our web team to build a solid Drupal 6 infrastructure and framework based on industry best practices. This will require working with some Drupal 6 module configurations such as RSS feeds, themes and styles, search, and TinyMCE. Subsequent phases of the project will involve a complete redesign of at least four district web sites, incorporating interactivity with flash and graphics for an appealing and user friendly design experience.

Required Qualifications

Top candidates must have proven experience building and supporting complex, feature-rich, high traffic sites on Drupal v6. You must have at least 3+ years experience working with PHP 4 or 5, experience with the Domain module (using a shared database to drive multiple sites), and ability to implement themes based on wireframes and design comps. We also require 3+ years experience with Drupal CMS and 3+ years experience working in a full LAMP environment (including Linux, MySQL, and Apache). You must excel while working in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment on a small, focused team. Solid written and verbal communications skills are also required.

Additional Information

For your application process, provide URLs of 1-3 Drupal sites demonstrating your skills, with an explanation of your role on each project.

http://www.douglascountylibraries.org/joblistings/ Southern Colorado (SCUG)

Hi everyone,

Has anyone made a taxonomy for booklists or book reviews? We have been asked to create our "taxonomy terms/vocabulary" for our materials, but I'm having trouble contexually understanding how these words are going to be critical in pulling wonderful drupal booklists in different ways, or what the possibilities are. HELP! Please give me any examples you can that I can use as examples to visualize how this can be rendered.

Thanks always for your help. My e-mail is gstupar@northbrook.info

Libraries

I'm thinking of doing a simple module that would take a Drupal Book and output a SCORM package (.zip) with the necessary components.

My questions are:
* would there be interest for such a module?
* what SCORM standard (pick one) would be the "best" (least worst?) one to use? (Pointers are welcome, I'm kind of a newb regarding all the available standards).
* do you have any features you'd like this to have?

Libraries

This is a wiki page to help get started on organizing a Library DrupalCamp in DC adjacent to the ALA conference in June (Based on this discussion: http://groups.drupal.org/node/32822)

DATES

• How many days?
• Which days?
• Just Thursday, June 24th all day?

VENUE

• accessible by metro
• have reliable wifi
• one large meeting room and several breakout rooms

How many people do we need to accommodate?
We should keep this to a manageable size. 100-150. 200 max (cg)
Should there be a separate place for vendors (i.e.; web developers who want to sell their services to the rest of us) to showcase their wares? (-Cathay)
When I went to InfoCamp in Seattle there were a couple of tables in the hall where people convened for breakfast before the start - I thought that worked well (as)

Will we have money to put down?
The Drupal Association might be able to cover a deposit, if needed. (cg)
I will get in touch with places and try to get a ballpark idea of rates (as)
Duo Consulting would like to assist financially. (dv)

Ideas for places to ask…
DCPL (uses Drupal for their website) http://www.dclibrary.org/
University of Maryland CIS http://ischool.umd.edu/
Catholic University SLIS http://slis.cua.edu/

REGISTRATION

If we’re charging money we may have to register a nonprofit?
Most places have club exemptions that allow you to raise up to a few thousand dollars with no paperwork. (cg)
DrupalCon, the Drupal Association's US entity, is a 501(c)3 (cg)

Could pretty easily register people online through something like brown paper ticket.
Or we could build a site and use Drupal. (cg)
There are a number of DrupalCamp installation profiles running around right now. Duo Consulting would like to donate some time to modify one of these to suit our purposes. (dv)

FORMAT

Did we determine if we want to have an unconference kind of thing, or something more formal?

Maybe something in between where we have an outline of some of the speakers and their topics beforehand?

The best unconferences are curated. In NY, they recruit speakers who can cover almost any popular topic. Talk to Eric Goldhagen. I think that he offered to help. (cg)

TOPICS

• Writing custom modules: you can do this!
• Multi-site installs.
• Organic groups.
• How HPL is using custom modules + chart module + CCK to create an in-house, crowd-sourced statistics-reporting system
• Ubercart basics
• Thinking in terms of Views (or "how putting lots of thought into your custom node types can help you get the site you want in the end")
• It might also be good to have a "awesome modules you don't know you need yet" discussion
• May I suggest something specific? I'd like to know powerful CSS tips for creating a clean-coded "home" (front) page (such as with 'rollover' tabs, scrolling images, widget feeds, - total customization - using Zen. (-Cathay)

SPEAKERS

Domesticat
Highermath
Libtechie
Webwriter
Ahoymehearties (Center for Democracy and Technology, cdt.org - internet privacy)
DougVann

PEOPLE HELPING ORGANIZE AND RUN THE CAMP

Aballard – running event, planning event
Ronpeterson – LITA contact/support
Sharonknieper – running event
Swacktacular – planning event

HELPFUL RESOURCES

http://www.infocamp.info/blog/?p=715

http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-camp

http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit

http://groups.drupal.org/node/10437

POTENTIALLY CONTACT
Addison Berry (add1sun) currently lives in the DC area, and you might be able to get her to speak.
Bonnie Bogle (http://twitter.com/bonnie) is part of Development Seed; she was part of the team that made DrupalCon DC happen. I don't know her personally, but I have to think she would know some people who might be interested in helping.
Perhaps someone from the White House's website would be interested in speaking about their conversion process? http://www.whitehouse.gov/ (-Cathay)

Libraries

Does anyone know of anything Drupal happening before, during, or after PLA in Portland this spring (March 22-27)? I'd love to get together with other librarians to talk about all things Drupal. I'm launching our website on January 1 (http://kinderhooklibrary.org) and our library system is thinking about switching their site over as well.

Libraries

First off, I'm new to library development so tell me if way off base.

It seems that there are a handful of modules for harvesting records from ILS's, into your Drupal site as nodes (biblio or what have you). The two that I keep seeing are Millennium and SOPAC.
* Originally I thought Millennium was better -- it has higher D.O usage statistics, and it's a more Drupal-integrated solution (since it saves records as nodes, on which you can use views/fivestar/comments/etc).
* Then I thought SOPAC was better because it appeared to be real-time rather than based on a cron-harvest (or is it harvest/cron-based?), and because it seems to be the more widely-used/talked-about solution, what with AADL and the like.

I'm just wondering if there's a de-facto among the two, if one shines in certain situations and visa versa, if there are other modules to throw into the comparison, or if I'm comparing apples & oranges.

Libraries

We're proud to announce the public beta of our new site, available at http://new.nypl.org. Please use the feedback mechanism available on the site if you would like to give us your input, but I'm happy to try answering any informal questions here.

Libraries