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Leveraging Drupal Capabilities to Create a User-Focused Library Website

Leveraging Drupal Capabilities to Create a User-Focused Library Website. Anne M. Platoff , Ian Lessing, Mai Irie UC Santa Barbara Library Internet Librarian 2012 October 22, 2012. Project Summary. Rewrote and moved content into Drupal Visual redesign and new navigation

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Leveraging Drupal Capabilities to Create a User-Focused Library Website

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  1. Leveraging Drupal Capabilities to Create a User-Focused Library Website • Anne M. Platoff, Ian Lessing, Mai Irie • UC Santa Barbara Library • Internet Librarian 2012 • October 22, 2012

  2. Project Summary • Rewrote and moved content into Drupal • Visual redesign and new navigation • Developed custom tools in Drupal for users • Adopted a 4-tier system architecture • Dev, Stage, Preview, and Production • Continuing development of new features

  3. www.library.ucsb.edu Database of Electronic Resources Feature Boxes News Feed • Other features we discuss: • Enhanced Site Search • “Smart” Help Section • See our paper in the proceedings for more details…

  4. Database of Electronic Resources • Database for managing e-resources and presenting them to users • Special content type in Drupal • 4 taxonomies (controlled vocabularies) • Created a single view with multiple displays • Using nodequeue module to display ordered lists of “most recommended” databases • Demo

  5. Performance • Drupal can be slow • Tools for speed • Pressflow variant of Drupal • Caching • Memcache – database query cache • Boost Module – for server-side page cache • Solr external search engine

  6. Why We’re Happy With Drupal • Ability to customize means Drupal is extremely flexible • Drupal community is large and helpful • We’re constantly developing new features for our users • Distributed editing is much easier (WYSIWYG, no knowledge of HTML required)

  7. Want to Know More? Full Paper • Table of Modules, Libraries, and Themes • Anne M. Platoff • Web Services Librarian • platoff@library.ucsb.edu • Ian Lessing, • Software Development Manager / Web Programmer • ilessing@library.ucsb.edu • Mai Irie • Computer & Network Technologist • mirie@library.ucsb.edu

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