Drupal at One Big Library Unconference

What I want to know – what are libraries doing with Drupal?   This is note taking during a talk so it is a little rough to read.

MacMaster is converting their site to drupal this summer. Florida State University and famously Ann Arbor run on Drupal.

Drupal at Western

Western is converting their site to Drupal as well launching in mid August.  David Fiander from Western spent some time discussing the Western implementation.  David has been working on the new library website for the last three years.  Mostly spent time in visioning and planning, in January presented wireframes. Drupal was selected in fall 2007 and migration began in April 2008. They did one ‘collection’ a week (locking out content owner in the process).

LIbrary evaluated Drupal, Joomla and a few others.  A lot of the design was based on U of Saskatchewan.

Working hard at only using OOB modules – doesn’t want the headaches of upgrading.   Connects to LDAP for authentication for editors.

Their web developer learned Drupal starting in fall 2007.  Drupal was evaluated by installing on sandbox and playing around.  Drupal was attractive for layout and templating; simplicity of ‘live editing’ and cheap costs.  Drafting of content and publishing workflow were not implemented.

Drupal At McMaster

McMaster are using 73 Drupal modules. Uses module called ‘views’ – ability to view content in different ways.  Mac is using Drupal login not LDAP

Drupal At Queens

Queens implemented their subject guides in Drupal first, then are implementing main site.