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August 13, 2008

U of M goes with Drupal and so do we

The University of Michigan Library completed an extensive study of content management systems for their new website, narrowed it down to three contenders (Plone, Drupal, and Joomla) and finally decided on Drupal.  Our library (the San Jose Library - a collaboration of the San Jose Public Library & San Jose State University Library) just completed a similar, but far less formal, study and ended up with the same three finalists.  And we also decided to use Drupal.  The modularity is a huge factor, as is the extensibility and the large development community. So many libraries are using it, and I think more will use it in the future.  Here's to open source!

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congrats, sarah! the MaintainIT Project site runs on drupal, and its been good to us the past 3 years.

Posted by: Sarah Washburn | August18, 2008

We'll be employing some of the interactive and social features in some of hte modules in Drupal. We haven't decided which ones yet - we're waiting for some training and orientation with the software first. We hired Growing Ventures to give us some training - we're very excited!

Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | August15, 2008

Congratulations! We switched to Drupal over a year ago and have been doing great things since.

What kind of Drupal functionality are you going to put into your implementation in San Jose Library? Just information pages? Some social features? OPAC replacement? =)

Posted by: alejandro garza | August15, 2008

You will enjoy Drupal, I know I do.

Posted by: Mikael Jacobsen | August13, 2008

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