Tag: drupal

Staff Publications Gets a New Home

Lise Gazzillo

Library IT is currently working on a project to move the staff directory and profiles from a legacy part of our web space into Drupal,  Yale’s  content management system. Library IT’s summer interns, Annissa Carter, Bryana Kilpatrick, and Jhoselyn Jara, have replicated the staff profiles in Drupal. The Publications section of the Staff Directory will be moved to a different service — Researcher Profiles.

Researcher Profiles is a service providing Yale faculty, students and staff, a place to showcase their curriculum vitae and other academic work. It is supported by Yale University Library and open to any Yale community member.  Moving to Researcher Profiles offers many benefits, you can:

  • Add much more to your profile than just publications
  • Add in your CVs, list presentations, papers and articles
  • Create external links to content hosted elsewhere

Researcher Profiles presents an excellent way to have all of your work located in one place.

Researcher Profiles is search engine optimized, allowing search engines to discover and promote your information easily. Another key benefit is access to your dashboard. Your dashboard provides qualitative information about your content, from this information you can measure your content’s readership and traffic data, giving you an excellent way to measure the interest in your content.

Researcher Profiles is a companion service to EliScholar, a digital platform for scholarly publishing at Yale. EliScholar allows researchers and other interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Yale scholarship. Administered by the Yale University Library, EliScholar contains materials selected by participating departments, schools, centers, and institutes at Yale. Users have access to materials in EliScholar free of charge. Some materials are restricted use by Yale community members only.

If you have any questions, please email Steve Wieda at Steve.Wieda@Yale.edu or Jenn Nolte at Jenn.Nolte@Yale.edu.

Links to Resources:

New Staff Publications series in EliScholar: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yul_staff/

Yale ITS Moving Drupal to the Cloud

Steve Wieda

On Tuesday, February 16, Yale ITS created a test instance of the Library’s Drupal website in the new Acquia cloud environment.  Library IT will have two months to test the site’s content, performance, and robustness.  If all the tests go well, the Library’s Drupal website will move to the Acquia cloud at the end of the test period.

The Acquia cloud is a new cloud-based computing platform that Yale ITS is using to relieve some of its dependence on locally-hosted architecture.  Yale ITS has told Library IT that the Acquia-hosted Drupal site will be faster, more responsive, and more robust than the current locally-hosted Drupal site.

DrupalCamp Report

Steve Wieda

Several Library IT staff members attended the YaleSites DrupalCamp on Thursday, March 19.  User experience staff attended presentations on determining the goals for a website, website design, information architecture, using YaleSites pre-built features, CSS injectors, creating views for content types, Google Analytics, search, using filters and compare. The topics discussed touched on nearly every aspect of running a Drupal website.  Of particular interest to YUL was the presentation on information architecture, as it included in its slide deck a screenshot of our Quicksearch Beta!

An information sharing-event such as YaleSites Drupal Camp is one of the benefits of the library’s participation in the centrally supported web content management system.  Library staff are always welcome to attend YaleSites events, and we saw quite a few library staff at the day-long conference.  If you are interested in learning more please check out YaleSites Training or look at slides from YaleSites presentations.

New Personal Librarian pages debuted for Fall 2014

Meng Tang

Library IT debuted the redesigned web pages for the Personal Librarian program at the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester. The redesign includes a new template for staff profile pages (example here) and a new main page (linked here).

The redesigned main page includes:

  • rotating images of librarians currently in the PL program
  • a calendar of library-hosted workshops and tours
  • a PL lookup tool to help students find their assigned personal librarians 
  • links to both the Divinity Library’s and Medical Library’s Personal Librarian programs

From About the Personal Librarian Program | Yale University Library:

“The Personal Librarian program at Yale University Library is designed to introduce students entering Yale College to the collections and services of the Yale University Library. Upon matriculation, each freshman will be matched with a research librarian who will help with any academic work involving the Library and its collections, study spaces and/or staff.  Students typically work more frequently with their Personal Librarians during their freshman and sophomore years.  Once a student declares a major they will begin working with a Subject Specialist who will help with relevant assignments through completion of the senior year.”

For questions about the Personal Librarian program for undergraduates at Yale University Library, please contact emily.horning@yale.edu

For questions about the new Personal Librarians page, please contact kathleen.bauer@yale.edu or meng.tang@yale.edu.