Drupal for Libraries and Government

Great stuff at the Drupalcon here in San Fransisco. I went to the Drupal for Libraries session today. I know people in J.A. will find it interesting for the planned drupal camp so look out for the video as soon as it is posted here: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sessions

People interested in library related topics shouls join the mailinglist at http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html

Some other useful links are:

http://drupalib.interoperating.info/

http://groups.drupal.org/libraries

http://drupalib.interoperating.info/

Please join and participate.

Also some great talks by Tim O'Reilly as well as the CIO of the Whitehouse, and other members of the Executive Office of the President who highlight the important role open source currently plays in the government and exciting frontiers for the future. It is excellent news that projects like whitehouse.gov and nysenate.gov are releasing code(modules) back to the community: http://www.whitehouse.gov/tech

The future looks great with Drupal distributions on the way. I'm sure we will eventually have a suite of modules and configurations that are useful for Libraries, and who knows, maybe also something geared exclusively for government bodies.