We have abandoned Rhythmyx and have moved into experimental territory by adopting Drupal 6 as our new library csm. Rhythmyx did not meet our required standards of usability and would not have been a great platform for experimenting with new web technologies. I can’t imagine our list of contributors would have expanded if we had adopted the college solution.
Our library website is roughly split between three camps: the basic operational details for the library; the e-resources; and the subject area, which delivers information skills about the both physical and the electronic library and other resources beyond our institution. Drupal is optimized for community driven websites, so we are hoping to use this to provide a more interactive, experimental website, especially with regard to information skills. Our plans with regard to this are currently under discussion. I fancied it personally as I saw a way I could hack node-types / content-types to meet particular document management solutions that we have in the library, e.g. creating subject based library guides.
We’d be interested to chat more with any UK library that has adopted Drupal as their cms or is thinking of it. Sorry it’s not online yet. We will include a link in a future post.
