1. FORGING THE LIBRARY WEBSITE WITH OPEN SOURCE PROF. JUNIOR TIDAL LIBRARY DEPARTMENT NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY TECH DAY 03.31.16

2. FRAMEWORK OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WHAT IS DRUPAL? WHY DRUPAL? HOW DOES THE LIBRARY USE DRUPAL? FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

3. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE?

4. OPEN SOURCE IS LICENSED SOURCE CODE

5. OPEN SOURCE ALLOWS FOR THE MODIFICATION, REDISTRIBUTION OF CODE FOR FREE

6. DRUPAL IS OPEN SOURCE

7. WHAT IS DRUPAL?

8. DRUPAL IS A MODULAR, CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

9. MODULES ARE OSS COMMUNITY CREATED SOFTWARE THAT EXPANDS DRUPAL

10. WHY DOES THE LIBRARY USE DRUPAL?

11. DRUPAL IS VERY POPULAR AMONG ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

12. DEVELOPERS HAVE BUILT LIBRARY SPECIFIC MODULES

13. DRUPAL SUPPORTS RESPONSIVE DESIGN

14. RESPONSIVE DESIGN DISPLAYS THE SAME SITE ON A MOBILE DEVICE AND DESKTOP WORKSTATION

15. HOW DOES THE LIBRARY USE DRUPAL?

16. LIBRARIANS USE DRUPAL TO UPDATE CONTENT ON THE LIBRARY WEBSITE

17. THE VIEWS MODULE ALLOWS FOR THE QUERY AND MANIPULATION OF MYSQL DATA THROUGH THE SITE’S FRONT- END

18. IT IS USED TO MANAGE THE LIBRARY’S COLLECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCE DATABASES.

19. VIEWS ALSO ORGANIZES LIBRARY FACULTY DATA ON THE SITE.

20. THE LIBRARY WEBSITE AUTOMATICALLY AGGREGATES BLOG, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CALENDAR FEEDS.

21. DRUPAL INTEGRATES WELL WITH EXISTING CUNY-WIDE LIBRARY-SPECIFIC TOOLS

22. TOOLS SUCH AS ONESEARCH AND THE LIBRARY’S BLOG & LIBGUIDES

23. DRUPAL INTEGRATES WELL WITH EXISTING CUNY-WIDE LIBRARY-SPECIFIC TOOLS

24. THE LIBRARY HAS USES URL SHORTENER INTO THE SITE

25. THIS CAN BE USED TO SHARE RESEARCH ARTICLES WITH CLASSES AND FACULTY

26. http://cityte.ch/permalinker

27. FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS

28. DEVELOPING AN OPEN-SOURCE SEARCH ENGINE USING APACHE SOLR AND JAVA TOMCAT

29. INTEGRATING APACHE SOLR INTO A “BENTO BOX” SEARCH WITH OTHER LIBRARY SEARCH TOOLS.

31. QUESTIONS?

32. CONTACT PROF. JUNIOR TIDAL jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu

33. THANKS!!