drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

The New York University Health Sciences Libraries count 7 libraries under our umbrella including locations at the School of Medicine, the College of Dentistry and Bellevue Hospital. Our new site runs Drupal 6.11. It's our second Drupal site (this was our first) and all the theming and development was done in-house.

The new site unifies 5 web presences, so care was taken to be sure all users are served equally by it's features. Each branch has a location page with basic details about the physical space, hours of operation, a map and the like. The electronic resources interface makes use of two vocabularies, one that is medical-centric and one that is dentistry-centric (switchable via Magic Tabs).

A tabbed search interface (also using Magic Tabs) allows you to search our e-Resources database, the catalog, PubMed and the site itself. Behind the scenes, the site makes extensive use of Workflow and Triggers to draft, approve and publish content. It is integrated with our institution's LDAP authentification system, so no new passwords for library staff to remember. Librarians piece together subject guides using Composite Layout and the Knowledge Center uses the FAQ module and Taxonomy. Couloir Slideshow drives the banner on the homepage and Calendar and Date drive the Events section.

Great River Regional Library (32 branches in central Minnesota) has been using Drupal internally for over a year and just launched a complete redesign of our public website using Drupal 6, at http://www.griver.org.

Whereas the old site was static HTML, maintained by a single department using Dreamweaver, the new site allows each branch/department to post and edit their own content and have it reflected on-line immediately. It also has made for a much more consistent, maintainable and expandable on-line presence.

The site was developed entirely in-house over the span of 6 months. The theme was created by our graphic designer; the theme implementation, Drupal setup, configuration and custom programming were done by our web developer; the server was configured and optimized by our IT coordinator.

Allows EZProxy to use Drupal as an external authentication source.

Simon Fraser University Library's new Drupal site. Same look and feel as previous site, but with better content maintainer tools (no more Dreamweaver), more consistent structure, and better management tools. We have over 50 content maintainers and over 1500 pages.