Libraries

Kate Lynch's session, "Shh, This is a (Drupal-powered) Library Site", made the cut for DrupalCon San Francisco. It is currently slated for 9:45 AM on Wednesday, April 21.

The room holds about 400, so we need to turn out for it. If you haven't planned to go, there are still plenty of tickets at a mere $195 (for another two weeks, I think), so please join us in one of the most beautiful cities in the world for three days of Drupal, food, and a few good librarians. http://sf2010.drupal.org

Congratulations to Kate and her co-presenters.

I am working with bookings API-- have all modules needed enabled - I entered a room but can't figure out how to enter days/times available - I work for a public library system with 9 buildings and community rooms in each - when I edit the resource it open booking in Views and I am not sure how to configure to have times available for each room--any help much appreciated

Hi folks,

I've run into a problem that I hope someone can help with. My library district has a lot of vendor database subscriptions, but a handful of these databases are only available at certain branches or just inhouse.

Currently we use a vbscript file that defines the branch IP range for each branch. If the vendor database is tagged with that branch in a home-grown SQL database access is limited to that branch.

Thank you to those who are looking into possible venues for the LibraryCamp
I'd like to offer this thread as a chance for those looking into venues to report to the group on the opportunities that exist.

Thank you,
Doug Vann

I'm thinking of doing a simple module that would take a Drupal Book and output a SCORM package (.zip) with the necessary components.

My questions are:
* would there be interest for such a module?
* what SCORM standard (pick one) would be the "best" (least worst?) one to use? (Pointers are welcome, I'm kind of a newb regarding all the available standards).
* do you have any features you'd like this to have?

Does anyone know of anything Drupal happening before, during, or after PLA in Portland this spring (March 22-27)? I'd love to get together with other librarians to talk about all things Drupal. I'm launching our website on January 1 (http://kinderhooklibrary.org) and our library system is thinking about switching their site over as well.

We're proud to announce the public beta of our new site, available at http://new.nypl.org. Please use the feedback mechanism available on the site if you would like to give us your input, but I'm happy to try answering any informal questions here.

Following up on my note to the Drupal4lib list, I propose that we have a library DrupalCamp. Presuming that this would be a one day event, I suggest Thursday, June 24th (ish) immediately proceeding ALA Annual in Washington, DC. Of course, it could be two days.

Formal or unconference?

If anyone is interested in getting involved or, preferably, taking charge of this, please step forward.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience building something for automating readers advisory. My librarians are calling it "read-a-likes." The idea is that there is a list of authors. Each author would link to their page with links to other similar authors. You can see the example below.

If you like David Baldacci, then try:

William Bernhardt
Stephen J. Cannell
Linda Fairstein
Vince Flynn
James Grippando
John Grisham
Brad Meltzer
Kyle Mills
Robert Tanenbaum
Stuart Woods (Will Lee Series)

A further example can be found here.
http://www.lansing.lib.il.us/readalikeauthors.html