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Drupal: Open Source Everything
Karen A. Coombs

What are you
talking about ?
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Drupal as CMS
✤ Many libraries using Drupal for their library
websites
✤ Flexible architecture & modular design
✤ Able to support lots of types of content
✤ Search modules: Solr, Faceted Search

University of Michigan

Miami University

Darien Public Library

Drupal for Library Intranets
✤ Lots of modules to support internal content
✤ Event
✤ Signup
✤ Web Form
✤ Create Custom Content Types - CCK, Views
✤ Taxonomy to subdivide site

University of Houston Intranet

University of Houston Intranet
Events

University of Houston Intranet
Fund Codes

University of Houston Intranet
Forms for Collecting Information

Drupal is more than a CMS

Drupal as Social Networking Tool
✤ Social networking features part of Drupal
✤ RSS Feeds
✤ Organic Groups
✤ Subscriptions
✤ Online Docs, and Images
✤ Chat Box

ALA Connect

ALA Connect
Drupal4Lib IG

ALA Connect
Mentoring Network

Drupal for Digital Libraries
✤ CCK, Views, Faceted Search, OAI-CCK
✤ Timeline, ImageAPI, Imagecache, Imagefield,
ImageAPI Reflect, Thickbox, and Lightbox2
✤ Themes allow customization of collections
✤ Connect Drupal to Fedora

McMaster University

McMaster University
War & Peace

Simon Fraser

University of Prince Edward Island
Islandora

Drupal Meets the Library Catalog
✤ Desire to merge catalog data & library website
✤ Bring social features and Web 2.0 to library
catalog
✤ Ratings, reviews, covers, tags
✤ Faceting
✤ Desiloize the library (catalog, articles, digital
library)

SOPAC: The Social OPAC

XC: Extensible Catalog Project

Drupal
✤ Flexible
✤ Adaptable
✤ Scalable
✤ Platform for Library Innovation

Questions ?
Karen A. Coombs
librarywebchic@gmail.com
http://www.librarywebchic.net
Slides on the web at
http://www.slideshare.net/librarywebchic/drupal-open-source-
everything