Do you want to manage all the data within Drupal or do you want to use 'redirect' the user to an external catalogue? The Miami U site uses a custom module to index all its catalogue data in Solr and then hook the Drupal front end into that index. There are other approaches to integrating catalogue data into a Drupal instance, such as the Millenium module and the MARC module, but AFAIK they don't offer fielded searching like the Miami site. The first module is specific to the Innovative Interfaces integrated library system, the second is more general.
If you simply want to redirect users from a form on your drupal site to an external catalogue, let us know since there are several approaches to doing that.
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Manage data totally within Drupal?
Hi LG,
Do you want to manage all the data within Drupal or do you want to use 'redirect' the user to an external catalogue? The Miami U site uses a custom module to index all its catalogue data in Solr and then hook the Drupal front end into that index. There are other approaches to integrating catalogue data into a Drupal instance, such as the Millenium module and the MARC module, but AFAIK they don't offer fielded searching like the Miami site. The first module is specific to the Innovative Interfaces integrated library system, the second is more general.
If you simply want to redirect users from a form on your drupal site to an external catalogue, let us know since there are several approaches to doing that.