Idaho Commission for Libraries

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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.

At the beginning of October we launched a newly-envisioned Commission for Libraries web site. Now we have another surprisingly drastic makeover to announce:

A new Idaho Library Directory replacing the old directory Editor's note: The link was removed to the old directory because the old directory has been taken offline.

e-branch users:

As announced on LibIdaho on Oct. 2nd, today we're updating all e-branch library web sites, removing the "book page" option from the list of content types when you create new content for your site. Additionally we are converting all existing book pages to the "page" content type.

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!

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.

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

It works like this

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.

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.