I'm just coming to grips with the recent upgrade to "Version 7" of the Voyager Book Catalog at DePaul.
I love the use of facets to limit search results but I really wonder if they're going to stick with the status "Not Charged" for books available and on the shelf. It's probably not what most people think when they're headed to the stacks.
This is still a while off but I thought I'd put out an initial request before the holidays officially begin. It's a request for ideas and suggestions for the meeting of the LITA Drupal4Lib Interest Group at the 2009 ALA Conference in Chicago.
Feel free to leave comments either here or on the LITA Blog at: http://tinyurl.com/Drupal4LibALAchicago
Kyle and Matthew along with a few others from the CDMUG are putting together a Drupal Camp Chicago.
It's a two-day event running from Friday (10/24) to Saturday (10/25). Location is the UIC Innovation Center at 1240 W. Harrison in Chicago.
Website for the event is http://drupalcampchicago.org/. It's only a month away but they're still taking suggestions for sessions at this link: http://drupalcampchicago.org/wiki
I'll be doing a Library BoF tentatively scheduled for early Friday afternoon. The idea is:
Mark your calendars today!
Not the best quality shot but hopefully it conveys what a great time I had at the LITA Happy Hour on Friday, June 27. I got most of the signatures for the Drupal IG plus met a bunch of great people.
I got an interesting request a little while ago. A librarian wanted to know if she could get administrative access to a website I was running so she could see how Drupal works.
Naturally I had to say no, but it got me thinking that a "sandbox" version of Drupal -- based on a library website -- might be useful to people who wanted an idea of the "look and feel" of the thing.
Drupal has a module called "Demo" that makes sandboxes possible. So now I'm thinking this might form the basis of an interesting collaborative project.
The goal would be to create a model library website (representing a fictitious institution) that people would have administrative access to.
The website would have events, a list of resources, plus all the other accouterments a modern day fictitious institution would have.
If you'd like to help out or have any advice, feel free to leave a comment here. Or just email me.
I've already registered the domain, www.LibrarySandbox.org, though there's not much up there at the moment.
Announced less than two days ago, I'm happy to see that we now have more than 200 subscribers!
What better indication of the need for a Library ListServ on Drupal than this?
(Okay, so he's not directly addressing things like Z39.50, OpenURL or ILS's, but you'd think the same rules apply.)
Under the heading "Lightweight Programming Models", he lists the following "significant lessons" (in abbreviated form):
- Support lightweight programming models that allow for loosely coupled systems. [...]
- Think syndication, not coordination. [...]
- Design for "hackability" and remixability. [...]
Go ahead and read the whole thing...
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