Mark, thanks for the review. I am glad that you liked the LTR issue, for the most part. We were trying to write more of an executive summary that someone outside the tech department (administration) might find accessible enough to read and get an idea of what made Drupal so powerful. I really think we found a good audience. They tell us that it sold out at ALA.
The challenge for me as someone who likes to write Drupal modules for fun, was constantly trying to keep it from being a technical manual. So therefore Chapter 5 was a little sparse on all the ways to override the Drupal core theme functions. I really struggled with wanting to give a more technical description of the theming functionality. Good point with the color module though, we should have definitely mentioned that.
As far as library modules, I didn't want to overhype the MARC module (which is still somewhat limited in what it does - keep an eye out for a new version though) but we should have had a large section on the very popular biblio module. I just totally missed the boat on that module.
Regarding the case studies, the Fish4Info interview was actually Chris's section and an interview with him that was for ALA techsource. But we should have had an academic library in there. We just ran out of space (and time). We also tried to set something up with Anne Arbor, as they were really the first publicizing Drupal in libraries, but we ran out of time and space on that one too.
Finally, I am really sorry about omitting Drupalib from the resources. I do keep tabs on the site, find it a valuable resource and even did try to contact you for a quote or testimonial, you must not have gotten my message. But we should still have had the site in our resources. That was unfortunately the section that we completed and was perhaps a bit incomplete. The site has been a tremendous resource to libraries and I just hope the LTR can continue the promotion of Drupal in libraries that you have been doing here for a number of years.
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Thanks for the write up
Mark, thanks for the review. I am glad that you liked the LTR issue, for the most part. We were trying to write more of an executive summary that someone outside the tech department (administration) might find accessible enough to read and get an idea of what made Drupal so powerful. I really think we found a good audience. They tell us that it sold out at ALA.
The challenge for me as someone who likes to write Drupal modules for fun, was constantly trying to keep it from being a technical manual. So therefore Chapter 5 was a little sparse on all the ways to override the Drupal core theme functions. I really struggled with wanting to give a more technical description of the theming functionality. Good point with the color module though, we should have definitely mentioned that.
As far as library modules, I didn't want to overhype the MARC module (which is still somewhat limited in what it does - keep an eye out for a new version though) but we should have had a large section on the very popular biblio module. I just totally missed the boat on that module.
Regarding the case studies, the Fish4Info interview was actually Chris's section and an interview with him that was for ALA techsource. But we should have had an academic library in there. We just ran out of space (and time). We also tried to set something up with Anne Arbor, as they were really the first publicizing Drupal in libraries, but we ran out of time and space on that one too.
Finally, I am really sorry about omitting Drupalib from the resources. I do keep tabs on the site, find it a valuable resource and even did try to contact you for a quote or testimonial, you must not have gotten my message. But we should still have had the site in our resources. That was unfortunately the section that we completed and was perhaps a bit incomplete. The site has been a tremendous resource to libraries and I just hope the LTR can continue the promotion of Drupal in libraries that you have been doing here for a number of years.