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LITA Drupal IG Midwinter Meeting

San DiegoJanuary 8 2010

Our Agenda

Housekeeping

LITA Strategic Plan & Drupal IG Goals for 2010-11

Virtual Presentation Ken Varnum, Web Services Manager, University of

Michigan, “Summon and LibGuides in Drupal”

Open Discussion

Housekeeping

We need IG officers (Chair/Co-chair) for 2011-12

Web presence and communication? ALA Connect? Other modes?

Email lists currently used: lita-l web4lib drupal4lib code4lib

Areas of LITA Strategic Plan Relevant to the Drupal IG

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Goal Area 3: Training and Continuing Education

“LITA is nationally recognized as the leading source for continuing education opportunities for library information technologiest and all library staff who have an interest in technology.”

Objective 3.3: Offer a variety of education opportunities year round.

Objective 3.4: Educate members and potential members at all levels of expertise.

Areas of LITA Strategic Plan Relevant to the Drupal IG

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Goal Area 2: Innovation:

“LITA leverages its members’ expertise to demonstrate the value

of new and existing technologies within ALA and beyond.”

Objective 2.2: Offer technology consulting services to ALA, other ALA Divisions, and other information professional organizations.

Drupal IG Strategic Goal 1

Objective: Provide Drupal support and training at all levels, novice to expert, to the library community

Strategy: Submit proposals for/present Drupal-related programming at Annual 2011 Full day preconference: “Getting Started with

Drupal,” Rachel Vacek & Nina McHale Concurrent session: “Drupal Fail Panel,” coordinated

by Chris Evjy & Kara Reuter

Drupal IG Strategic Goal 2

Objective: Provide Drupal support and training at all levels, novice to expert, to the library community

Strategy: Educate the library community about using and migrating to Drupal 7 Explore providing virtual training (webinars,

tutorials, etc.) on migration Recruit instructors and develop training

Drupal IG Strategic Goal 3

Objective: Support growth of the Drupal developer community in the library profession

Strategy: Encourage and support release of library-related Drupal modules to the Drupal community Compile list of existing modules (Where? Does this

exist?) Recruit developers Research how to support module

development/release

Code4lib Column

Dale Askey, “We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code.” Issue 5, 2008-12-15

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/527

Askey: Why Librarians/Library Programmers Don’t Submit Code

Perfectionism: unless the code is perfect, we don’t want anyone to see it

Dependency: if we share this with you, you will never leave us alone

Quirkiness: we’d gladly share, but we can’t since we’re so weird

Redundancy: we think your project is neat, but we can do better

Competitiveness: we want to be the acknowledged leader

Misunderstanding: a fundamental inability to understand how an open source community works

Presentation

“Summon and LibGuides In Drupal”

Ken Varnum Web Services ManagerUniversity of Michigan

Let’s Talk Drupal!

What library Drupal projects are you working on or have you recently finished? Brag! Show off!

Drupal 7: Are you there yet? Tell us about it! Any tips/lessons learned

Module development: Have you done it? Tell us about it!

Insert your topic here…

Thanks! See You at Annual!

Nina McHale

nina.mchale@ucdenver.edu

@ninermac

Christopher (Chris) Evjy

chris.evjy@jeffcolibrary.org

@endupok