drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

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

University of Rochester has made available screencasts explaining the various components of their eXtensible Catalog (XC), which uses Drupal as public-facing and staff interfaces. The "Drupal toolkit" component allows libraries to load their metadata into Drupal and provide search services on that metadata.

I've been working on this module for a couple of weeks now and I'm at the stage where I'd like to see if it would be useful to other libraries. The module started off as a replacement for the aging and unmaintained III Authentication module I wrote back in 2006. Here at Simon Fraser University Library we are developing a thesis submission management application in Drupal and need to authenticate students against our Innovative patron records, and this second-generation module grew out of that new need.

An article in the June 2008 Information Technology in Libraries by Jennifer Bowen indicates that Drupal will be used as the public and staff (administration and cataloging) interfaces for the University of Rochester's eXtensible Catalog. The article is available online via the U of R institutional repository.