[Koha] Drupal Koha Libraries

[Crago, Rebecca]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for sharing your site and experience with Koha and Drupal! You have an interesting setup with your authentication and user attribution. We authenticate using LDAP with our institution's Active Directory database, and import user attributes with Koha's patron import tool. We pull AD information into the csv using Colleague. Do you create your user records in Koha, or import them from another system?

We use a similar method to authenticate our users with EZproxy. 

I am very interested in the nightly report that presents new resources on your site. Is that used to display the New Books section at the bottom of your homepage? Could you point me in the direction of the Drupal module or configuration that does this? 

Thank you,
Rebecca

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Hannah [mailto:Tim.Hannah at education.govt.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:38 PM
To: Crago, Rebecca; Koha
Subject: RE: Drupal Koha Libraries

Hi Rebecca

Looks good, congrats. We seem to have close to exactly the same setup - Koha, Drupal, EDS, ezproxy.

https://library.education.govt.nz - though you won't get much out of that as the site requires login (I know, I know...).

Major things we're doing which involve both Drupal and Koha are

1) Using drupal module ILS authentication and some extra jiggery-pokery that's beyond my ken to tie Koha and Drupal authentication and users together (same logins, login in one system automatically logs into the other, Koha borrower.categorycodes are mapped to Drupal roles which allows differentiation of content of drupal site for different groups of users).

2) Drupal asks Koha to run a report nightly (basic data for new/selected records - title, abstract, subjects terms, url etc) and creates nodes from the results which are presented as new resources in the website and are emailed out by Drupal to borrowers who have signed up for alerts in various subject areas.

We also used Ebsco's 'Build a search box' to give users access to EDS, and still have a Koha search option alongside. Our ezproxy uses Koha to Authenticate users as well so same username/password for users without us having to think about it (not sure how yours is configured).

Feel free to get in touch

Cheers

Tim Hannah | Systems Librarian | Ministry of Education Library Wellington, New Zealand



-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Crago, Rebecca
Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2015 1:15 a.m.
To: Koha; partners at bywatersolutions.com
Subject: [Koha] Drupal Koha Libraries

Mercyhurst University has just launched our new library website! We are now using Drupal, so I wanted to reach out to other Koha/Drupal libraries. http://library.mercyhurst.edu/

We use Ebsco's EDS and integrated our catalog search using their 'Build a search box' code (http://support.ebscohost.com/eit/sbb.php).

What features are you using on your Koha/Drupal site?

Rebecca Crago, MLIS
Systems and Teaching Librarian
Mercyhurst University
501 East 38th Street
Erie, PA 16546
* (814) 824-3305


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