Tagged: drupal in libraries

Drupal in Libraries book and website

Last month I mentioned that a new book is coming out by Ken Varnum, titled Drupal in Libraries. Now that the date is closer a whole new website has been launched for it, built in Drupal of course: drupalinlibraries.com. The site has a (currently empty) forum and the best news is that a sample chapter is available: Planning Drupal Development in Libraries

San Jose Public Library's website redesign in Drupal

The latest podcast of Drupal Easy had a 4.5 minute interview with Nate Hill, the web librarian at San Jose Public Library (starting at around the 2 second minute of the podcast) recorded at DrupalCon Denver 2012. In it he mentioned how SJPL’s website was redesigned in Drupal 6 and now converted to 7. Nate showcased the custom theme he...

Libraries Going Mobile with Drupal

I just discovered Katherine Lynch‘s presentation from last June on “Libraries Going Mobile with Drupal“, given at LITA’s Drupal Interest Group meeting. I like when my worlds collide: part of my daytime job as an SEO developer is to think about how the increasing mobile usage affects our customers’ business and how we can maximize it for them. Meanwhile I am...

Drupal in Libraries

I got my MLIS March 2008 and started actively working with Drupal a year after that. (I say “actively”, because in 2006 I did a bit of configuration on a  Drupal 4.7 site, but not for long.) However I never focused my efforts to learn how these two passions of mine, Library science and Drupal, relate to each other. I wanted to,...