Building a Drupal-driven Intranet
Karen A. Coombs

Our Old Intranet

Functional Requirements
✤ Flexible, Adaptable System
✤ Content easily editable by all
✤ Selective dissemination of information
✤ Replace many existing tools
✤ Wikis, internal blogs, listservs, some file shares
✤ Unify Authentication
✤ Able to incorporate external content

Drupal for Library Intranets
✤ Lots of modules to support our internal content
✤ Event
✤ Signup
✤ Image
✤ Web Forms
✤ Use CCK, Views for Custom Content Types
✤ Taxonomy to subdivide information
✤ Custom Feeds

Forms for Collecting Information

Events

Fund Codes

Committee News

Feeds from other sites

Lessons Learned
✤ Analyzing current content and desired new content
key
✤ Create group to oversee implementation helps with
buy-in
✤ Training for staff critical
✤ Choosing between scaling back or buggy functionality
difficult
✤ Have to spend lots of time with groups planning pages