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Anonymous's picture
2006 15 Aug

e-branch Pilot Project Launched!

On April 8th, at the 2006 Southwest Idaho Library Association regional conference, the e-branch in a Box pilot project launched!

Anonymous's picture
2006 05 Sep

Project Update

We're moving closer to the launch of the e-branch project!

At the end of October and beginning of November the Idaho Commission for Libraries will provide training sessions across the state. Sign up! Each library that attends a session will have an e-branch site to work on - with the intent that they'll leave the workshop with a ready-to-launch site.

Anonymous's picture
2006 27 Oct

Trainings happening next week.

Our first e-branch in a box trainings will be happening next week! Attendees will begin the setup of their web sites during the training and leave with either a ready-to-go site, or one that they only need apply a little more of what they've learned to make road-worthy.

Anonymous's picture
2006 01 Dec

e-branch System's Underlying Assumptions

Please pardon if these thoughts are a bit rambling, but I've excerpted them from an email exchange with one of our e-branch participants:

Anonymous's picture
2006 18 Dec

Managing Change, e-branch Style

Part of the work of ensuring the longevity of a project such as the e-Branch project involves change management.

In managing change, it’s important to know what you value, and what to do when those values conflict. For the e-branch project, we’ve developed the following list of values, ranked in priority order:

  1. Security
Anonymous's picture
2007 11 Jan

Pandora's Themes

The most often heard request from our participating e-branch libraries is "more themes."

Anonymous's picture
2007 30 Mar

e-branch Upgrade on April 22nd

We’ve scheduled an upgrade to the e-branch in a box service for the morning of Sunday, April 22nd, beginning at approximately 8am, expected to finish by 12 noon. Downtime per individual library web site is expected to be approximately 10 minutes.

Anonymous's picture
2007 22 Apr

e-branch Upgrade Went Smoothly

On Sunday April 22nd, 2007 we upgraded our Drupal software to take advantage of Drupal's 5.x branch. The process went smoothly, as we'd done much testing and planning in advance.

Anonymous's picture
2007 11 May

Forums Taken Down

We've removed the forums feature from this site due to lack of activity/interest.

I'd had high hopes that we could conduct most of our e-branch support via this venue and thus build up something of a searchable knowledge-base that folks could query before calling us or emailing questions, since we often answer the same questions time and again.

Anonymous's picture
2007 25 May

Online Library Card Application

E-branch libraries now have the option of providing online library card applications to their users.

It works like this

eric.hildreth's picture
2007 21 Jun

e-Branch in a Box Photo Updates

e-Branchers,

Anonymous's picture
2007 10 Aug

e-branch at PNLA

Yesterday, 8/09/2007, we did a presentation on e-branch for the PNLA conference in Edmonton.

It went very well, and the participating libraries' sites that we showcased impressed the audience. They represented a lot of hard work by the Idaho libraries involved, and they reflected well on our project and the level of professionalism in Idaho libraries.

Anonymous's picture
2007 29 Aug

New Training Events

We've announced it in other places, but it obviously is appropriate to announce it here:

There is a new round of training planned for e-branch in October!

eric.hildreth's picture
2007 15 Oct

New E-Branch in a Box Handbook

For this fall's e-Branch in a Box training sessions, the print version of the e-Branch in a Box handbook has undergone a significant overhaul. The bulk of the questions about using the system revolved around working with the TinyMCE content editor. With these questions in mind, the new guide addresses how to work with the editor and deemphasizes the initial setup types of tasks.

eric.hildreth's picture
2007 20 Nov

Adding Google Calendars to Your Site

One of the biggest requests that we have received in recent months is adding calendar functionality to the e-Branch in a Box system. Through much trial and error on our own site using various modules, we have finally found a solution: Google Calendar (GCal).

eric.hildreth's picture
2008 01 Oct

Removal of Summer Reading Media

To comply with the Collaborative Summer Library Program (http://www.cslpreads.org/) guidelines, the 2008 Summer Reading e-Branch in a Box Themes (Metamorphosis @ Your Library and Catch the Reading Bug) have been removed from all the e-Branch participating sites. If you had any pages that tapped into the theme switching capabilities, I have switched them out to your default theme.

Anonymous's picture
2008 31 Dec

e-Branch Project Roadmap

We have set a tentative target of June May for the next major upgrade of the Drupal software behind our e-Branch web site hosting project for Idaho libraries.

eric.hildreth's picture
2009 08 Sep

Additional GrandCentral Skins Added

Two new Skins are now available (part of the GrandCentral theme) to all e-Branch in a Box participating sites:

Summer Fun Skin

Western Shed Skin

eric.hildreth's picture
2009 04 Nov

Summer Reading 2009 Materials

Each year, the Collaborative Summer Library Program provides us with materials to use in our Summer Reading programs. As a participant in this program, we have access to these items for a predefined time period and that time has passed for 2009.

aubrey.ellis's picture
2010 11 Mar

New e-Branch in a Box skin

Image of new skin
The new skin allows for customization of the colors and the block corners so your e-Branch site can be even more individual! The "Fun Corners" skin will use the same colors that you have set for the "Default" skin so you don't need to re-configure.