A new DarienLibrary.org

After a long summer, the new DarienLibrary.org went live this morning. The new website is running Drupal 6 and SOPAC 2.0.

Josh Hadro has written a very nice article about the particulars of the new social catalog application suite, and Richard Wallis has posted a podcast of a conversation I had with him last week about it.

We’re lucky to have such a great staff here in Darien, all of whom have put a huge amount of effort to making the new site a success. Thanks guys!

And now, it’s time for a nap!

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Published:: 09.01.08 / 12pm

Category:: Darien Library, Libraries, SOPAC

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Alejandro Garza 09.01.08 / 12pm

Congratulations! I have been clicking around on the site, and it looks great!

One smaaaaaall recommendation: change the “Advanced search” button (the one that actually launches the search) to something like “Do Advanced search”… I thought for a milisecond “wasn’t I already on the advanced search pane? oh, wait…” =)

Oh, and whoever was connected to Meebo didn’t answer me thru the widget.. but then again I guess you’re swamped!

Congratulations again!
ejk 09.01.08 / 12pm

Congrats! Looks great. Hope you get some time to rest and recover. =)

Let us know when you’re ready to release the code!
Jaap van de Geer 09.01.08 / 1pm

High Five John! Let’s see how long it will take to hit the 20.000 user mark!
Blyberg om SOPAC « Peter Alsbjers blogg 09.01.08 / 1pm

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WoW!ter 09.01.08 / 2pm

Congratulations with this achievement. Unofrtunately it’s never finished. You know that.
It’s good to celebrate this milestone though!
Meredith 09.01.08 / 4pm

Awesome job, John! It looks fantastic! I’m so pleased that you and the administrators at Darien had the vision to design something that will benefit the entire profession.

Hope you enjoy a well-deserved rest.
Michael Porter 09.02.08 / 3am

W00t! x3. Shaking it up again! Sincere kudos.
Cindy 09.02.08 / 11am

The site is amazing and so well done. The fact that it will be shared…even better. :) John…you rock!
laura 09.02.08 / 11am

Congratulations!
Paul 09.02.08 / 2pm

Wow, great stuff again – it’s nice to see the OPAC so closely integrated with a website.
vfranklyn 09.03.08 / 10am

Great job! I especially like that you allow people to sign up and tag/review things even if they don’t have a library card. I look forward to seeing how SOPAC works with SirsiDynix.
David Wright 09.03.08 / 8pm

Bravo! Beauty, function, vision – thanks for leading the way and clearing out the cobwebs.
Antti 09.04.08 / 1pm

Excellent! We’ve been waiting to see this. Awesome job!

@vfranklyn
“I especially like that you allow people to sign up and tag/review things even if they don’t have a library card.”

Same here. And there’s a ton of things like this here, things that you normally have to fight for. Good job, indeed.

Just tell us when you’re ready to release the code. Let’s make it global.
Was ist das Besondere an SOPAC 2.0? « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß 09.07.08 / 4pm

[...] Content-Management-System verwendet; in diesem Fall ist es Drupal, worauf aufbauend Blyberg “SOPAC 2.0” entwicklelt hat. Kurz auf den Punkt gebracht: OPAC+WordPress=Scriblio, OPAC+Drupal=SOPAC [...]
moreno 09.18.08 / 3pm

Awesome John! We are looking forward to try SOPAC out here in Brazil.

cheers

Me

A father and a library geek.

I work at the Darien Library in Connecticut as the Assistant Director for Innovation and User Experience.

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