Drupal Content Management and Community for your Library

Access Day Two talk

Drupal Content Management and Community for your Library

University of Alaska Fairbanks- Ilana Kingsley

• Library Website -
  • Ad Module
• Browse DVDs – IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Library Catalog

University of Mississippi Library – Debra Rily-Huff

• Subject Guides
• Government Documents

University of Rochester – Harish Nayak

• Still pre-lease, alpha design

London Public Library – Dave Mitchell

McMaster University – Nick Ruest

• Digital Collections portal
• http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca

Key Interesting Points

• Content Analysis to figure out Content Types
• Explaining what a Views is is difficult
• Taxonomy Module very helpful
  • Taxonomy for Theming
  • Taxonomy for Menus
• User Centered Design important
• Nice Menus Module
• CCK module critical
• ProDrupal Development book
• User Customization in Drupal
  • MySite module
    • User can add RSS/Atom feeds from external web sites to their MySite pages
    • Fully integrates with most Drupal content
    • Drag, drop and sort content on user custom personal layout
• Devel Module
• Taxonomy Theme
• OAI-PMH
  • OAI for Bibliographic Module
• Automatic Node Title Module
• Timeline Module

Theming

• Important to pay attention to when you upgrade versions (major version changes) or add modules
• Themes can be changed via CSS modifications, re-theme garland
• Zen is a good stripped down theme to start from
  • Well Documented php and css files
    • Layout
    • Print
    • Subthemes
  • Lots of easy access classes and ideas for CSS developers
  • Mindful CSS class names