The book is easy to read, and will be useful for anyone wishing to understand more about the way Drupal works. The more general material, on planning a CMS implementation, marketing the site, and monitoring use, will be useful in a broader context.
Brenda Chawner Victoria University of Wellington in Library Review, Volume 62 Issue 4/5
This is the companion site to Drupal in Libraries, published in May 2012 by ALA TechSource as part of The TECH SET®. If you're looking to buy a copy, try Amazon.com, the ALA Store, Neal-Schuman, or your favorite bookseller. All 20 TechSet® books are available through Amazon, as well.
On this site you'll find updates on the book, a sample chapter, a forum for questions and answers, and information about Ken Varnum.
The book is easy to read, and will be useful for anyone wishing to understand more about the way Drupal works. The more general material, on planning a CMS implementation, marketing the site, and monitoring use, will be useful in a broader context.
Join Ken Varnum at the Michigan Library Association's Applied Technologies & Trends day-long conference on Friday, May 10, for a talk on Getting Started with Drupal in a Library.
Ken Varnum will be co-teaching this spring's offering of ALA's Using Drupal to Build Library Websites online course. This six-week online course will guide participants in building an attractive, functional library website using Drupal. The test website you build will be hosted on a server for six months after the eCourse, facilitating additional learning. This eCourse will focus on Drupal 7, while highlighting what is still applicable to Drupal 6.
The Drupal Association is offering a quarterly "Global Training Day" on 14 December 2012. On these days, there are free (or low cost) training events scheduled in many geographic locations around the world and online (thanks to Lullabot and Open Source Training). For full details, see the Global Training Days page on drupal.org. For direct access to online events, see:
For those of you going to the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim from June 21-26, there are two opportunities to stop by and say 'hi' to me: a talk and a book signing.
I built this straightforward web site using Drupal (natch). Except for downloading and expanding the installer, I have not yet touched the command line to do anything. All the customization and feature management has been accomplished through Drupal's administrative interface. Here, briefly, is a summary of what I've used (so far).
