Libraries

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.

This group is for libraries - public, academic, school, law, what-have-you. It is not about code libraries.
Ask questions and/or tell us what your library or organization is up to.

Please add your library to our Drupal libraries roster

Resources

For an introduction to how Drupal can be used by libraries, take a look at Ellyssa Kroski's excellent overview.

You can also check out library-related Slack channels on the Drupal team (#libraries) and the Code4Lib team (#drupal4lib).

sclapp's picture

Using SSL / Secure Pages for Drupal

Is anyone out there using SSL for secure logins on their Drupal installation? I'm trying to test the use of SSL in conjunction with CAS / Secure Pages to see if it works for us, but I'm running into configuration troubles on my Acquia DAMP stack, which I use for testing (on a Win PC). I think the issue may be as basic as being at the OpenSSL or Apache level, but I'm not sure. It looks like php was built with openssl enabled in the Acquia stack (per phpinfo).

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belavida's picture

Crear un evento de usuarios de Drupal

Buenos Días
Yo estoy trabajando con Drupal hace varios años. En la página oficial del Drupal hemos visto que hacen conferencias, eventos en diferentes lugar del mundo sobre Drupal. Aqui en Cuba deberíamos crear un evento anual por ejemplo sobre Drupal donde las personas puedan intercambiar conocimientos y dudas, como mismo se desarrolla el FLISOL en Cuba y se realizan reuniones cada cierto tiempo, podríamos gestionar lo mismo en los Joven Club para dicho evento, donde podrían venir además usuarios de Drupal del mundo que quiera participar.

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Hanscraft's picture

Use ISBNs to pull in book data from other websites

I am creating a site which will basically be an annotated bibliography of resources related to the subject matter. As part of this work, I would like to have a way for people to input ISBNs and have Drupal "call" to another site to get data about the book.

Do you have any suggestions on how to do this? I am using Drupal 7.

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abdelrahman's picture

Mail error

Hi all,
I'm using drupal-6.20 i think all stuff is good but suddenly show the message when i login to my site:

warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\AppServ\www\drupal-6.20\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.

I wrote the correct the username and password and verified SMTP to be like :
[mail function]
;For Win32 only.
;SMTP = http://localhost.com
smtp_port = 25

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dakke's picture

Online journal: MARC or Qualified DC

Hi,

Simply to position myself a bit: I am aware of the various standards in the archival world (MARC, ISAD, ISAAR...), but for this project I need to describe records of a journal. The fields are the usual:
- Author
-- Name
-- Email
-- Telephone

  • Article
    -- Title
    -- Author
    -- Bodytext
    -- Issue ref
    -- Pages

Issue
-- Title
-- Publisher
-- Year
-- Number
...

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sledden's picture

DrupalCamp BOF

Do we have to reserve one of the BOF rooms before DrupalCamp? If so, how do we go about doing that? We want to organize some Library BOF action.

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NewDrupalUser's picture

Drupal Listservs and Drupal Commons

My organization is looking at developing a listserv that integrates with our Drupal website, and which has a fairly user-friendly interface, as well as an archive and search function. We are also considering whether Drupal Commons might be a solution for implementing the listserv. One difficulty is finding sample listservs and websites that can help us think about functionality and design. Would anyone know of sample sites using Drupal listservs? Thank you!

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eliobiblioteca

This is my library

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sclapp's picture

Number of hours left on a drupal project

I'm not going to lie - it's taking me a lot long to complete our sites' migration to Drupal than I ever would've expected. We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's still a ways off. The problem - I need help!
The good news - the possibility of getting a Drupal firm on contract with the state at some point to get some professional consulting. The bad news, I need to figure out a reasonable estimate of how long it would take a pro to do the following:

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justingeeslin's picture

Checking out a book.

Hi All,

What modules can you recommend for allowing the checking out of books on a library site?

Is there an obvious answer for this?

Thanks.

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richardhayward's picture

Libraryhack 2011 - the competition is now open

Developers, artists, students, library staff and more are invited to submit their projects and win $6,000 in prize money.

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jsomerfield's picture

Web File Manager module and batch file upload?

I am new to Drupal and am working on a test site. I like the concept of the Web File Manager, but cannot find a way to do batch file uploads of images and documents. Is this possible? Our current library website has hundreds of files that need to be transferred. I'm hoping not one at a time.

Thanks.

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trista13's picture

Test Site Best Practices

I have my production site just about ready to go (Yay!) but, I would like to have a test site for updating modules, etc. Ideally, I would have a completely separate site either hosted or locally to play with, but I have yet to get a local site working well and I don't have the budget to pay for two sites hosted. Bluehost said I could just make a folder called test and move a complete Drupal install there and then my test site would be domainname.com/test. I have some ideas about doing this, but if anyone has done this before, I would love some ideas on how to best accomplish this.

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skomorokh's picture

Module for themable search and metasearch for Z39.50, SRU and SOLR targets via Pazpar2

At Index Data I've lately been working on a Drupal module for Pazpar2 (http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2), our XML webservice based metasearch engine. Check it out in the git sandbox (http://drupal.org/sandbox/skomorokh/1103554) I've created (D6 for now but a D7 branch is on its way). While very much under development, basic functionality is all there and it would be great to get feedback as I polish it for release.

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post-it2011's picture

Archiving obsolete materials created in Drupal

What is the best way to archive documents created and used in a Drupal intranet? I work for an NGO that is setting up their intranet using the drupal platform, and we are organizing our materials using "documents" under each "group". These documents are office policies, forms, etc. They are updated every year or so. We would like our employees to have access to the old versions while being able to identify the most current iterations of these documents.

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trista13's picture

Site Migration FAIL

I'm attempting to migrate my functioning Drupal site from one host to another. I have tried several different methods (importing the database, then loading the files; using their Drupal install and then loading my database; cursing at the computer) and all have given me different error messages that seem to be at the database level. I have changed sites/default/settings.php to reflect the new database information. The error seems to always come from something called the lock.ini file. I've looked around online and talked with the new hosting company for a bit, but have not had any luck.

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Tomark's picture

Alpine Drupal Camp

Start: 
2011-05-07 09:00 - 17:00 Europe/Rome
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

A new kind of users/developers conference is going to enrich the Drupal landscape in Italy and… across the border. The Alpine Drupalcamp!
Let's meet on May, 7th 2011 in Brixen/Bressanone (Südtirol/Italy), surrounded by the amazing Alps, in oder to share experience, illustrate projects and discuss with users and developers about our favourite CMS/framework. Accepted are sessions in italian, german and english.
Official site: http://www.alpinedrupalcamp.org/en

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richardhayward's picture

Creating WARC index for Exlibris Primo harvesting of Drupal website

I'm interested to hear if there are any libraries with experience in creating WARC indexes from their Drupal websites. From what I read in the Exlibris Primo documentation WARC indexes are required so that Primo can harvest the website data and include in its search capability. Have you done this for your library website / library catalogue search?

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trista13's picture

Google Analytics or something else?

I'm fairly new to Drupal, but have created some sites before. In the past, I typically used Google Analytics to monitor the site traffic and noticed that there is a Google Analytics module, but I was wondering what others thought of it and if there might be a better solution with a Drupal site.

Thanks!

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vfranklyn's picture

Need help with php insert

Hi there,

I'm wondering if anyone out there can help out a php newbie. I'm trying to add a snippet of code to the bottom of a tpl.php file for a block view. The code I'm trying to add is this:

<p>
Click the title of this post to view comments.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://ppld.org/comment/reply/5865#comment-form">Add a new comment</a>
</p>

where "5865" is the node id. I don't know how to make that a variable in php on a tpl.php file. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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