drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

(Posted on behalf of Louise Gruenberg, Information Technology & Telecommunications Services, ALA)

The American Library Association (ALA) is seeking a vendor to handle the migration of http://www.ala.org, which includes 11 division subsites, a number of online publications, and their site for the public (I Love Libraries http://www.ilovelibraries.org) to a new content management system. Proposals are due February 15, 2010.

Karen Coombs has published a great article in the November 15 Library Journal profiling several Drupal library projects. Disclosure statement: one of the projects in Karen's article is my own library's thesis submission app.

Anyone interested in how Drupal can leverage Linked Data should take a look at this blog posting by Stéphane Corlosquet and more specifically the paper he is giving at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) next week.

Members of Drupalib who get email notifications of new content will have seen that today I created a quiz and two inane questions. I'm sorry to have polluted your inboxes. This test quiz was not meant to be publicized, but by marking it as published, I triggered the notification that you received.

I've configured Notify to not alert members about the creation of new quizzes, since I set up that module with no particular intent of making it a general feature of Drupalib. Again, I apologize for the inbox static.

Those of you going to Access 2009 up for a Drupal BoF? Maybe we could list some topics here. Or, the thunder talk session is always a good place to show the world some interesting stuff you're working on. I might show our new thesis submission app (built on Drupal of course) if it's far enough along by then.

Just updated the site to all the latest versions of core and contrib modules, and added the funky ASCII art CAPTCHA. This one seems to have eliminated automated spambots from another Drupal site I manage (http://pkp.sfu.ca). Let's see how it works on drupalib.

VTLS has released a product called Chamo, a Drupal module that acts as a social OPAC to its Virtua ILS.

Title says it all. I'd be interested to hear how you like the QuickText module, since it's a nice compromise between a lightweight tag editor and a WYSIWYG editor.

After having to delete a couple hundred spam comments this weekend, I've turned off anonymous commenting. Either the human spam bots are working overtime or CAPTCHA has been cracked. I'll turn on anonymous commenting when things settle down.

I don't know but I'm working on finding out. Will post update here tomorrow.

Update, 2009-03-14: An upgrade to Drupal and all contrib modules has not solved the problem. I tried some debugging as suggested at http://drupal.org/node/362799, but doing so produced an unexpected result, so I posted a comment to see if anyone else had seen the same.