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ACPL, Sirsi, and SOPAC

Submitted by jblyberg on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 12:05pm

More good news for SOPAC this month.

Sean Robinson has just posted a walk-through on how to get SOPAC working with Sirsi! Sean and his staff at Allen County Public Library have been steadily working on a Locum connector for Sirsi for several months now. When I last had a chance to hang out with Sean at Internet Librarian he had told me that they were very close to having a working connector for Sirsi.

What is truly impressive is that they were able to do it without the connector documentation that I have been so slow to produce. It's coming!

Kudos to the ACPL staff and their hard work!

To grab the connector, pull it down with svn:

svn export svn://drupal.acpl.lib.in.us/sirsisopac

YourLibrarySite to Offer SOPAC Integration

Submitted by jblyberg on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 2:50pm

Some very good news from Eugene, Oregon! Drupal web design firm Craftyspace is going to integrate SOPAC into their YourLibrarySite product suite. This means that they will be offering their expertise to implement and support SOPAC in your organization.

Back in September, Joseph Munich and Alex Bronstein paid a visit to Darien Library for a development summit. We spent a good amount of time talking about SOPAC and Drupal and where it will go in the future. What impresses me about Craftyspace is that they are not a company that has just cropped up in response to Drupal's popularity--they have been key members of and contributors to the Drupal development community for several years and see libraries as a naturally receptive market for the CMS.

They are currently working on implementing SOPAC at Palos Verdes Library District. I'm looking forward to the final product!

From their press release:

The library website development team at YourLibrarySite.com (a website development initiative offered by CraftySpace, LLC) is currently integrating Social OPAC functionality with the Palos Verdes Library District’s website (PVLD.org). YourLibrarySite is using John Blyberg’s SOPAC2 Drupal module to integrate PVLD’s ILS with their website. This integration empowers library patrons to review, tag and rate biblio records without leaving PVLD’s website, and to view the content created by other patrons.



Site Launch & Initial Software Release

Submitted by jblyberg on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 1:49pm

It's taken me a little longer than expected to get this project site launched. I've been determined to get it up and running before the end of September and with the growing number of people asking to get their hands on SOPAC, it comes not a moment too soon.

So, welcome to thesocialopac.net. We have big plans for SOPAC and this site will only grow as we build a community around the project.

One quick note on the current release status

Because we launched SOPAC without the benefit of ever having done any production testing, we've identified a number of critical enhancements that need to be made. I will be working on those over the next few weeks, but I want to make sure that anyone who downloads beta1 knows that there will be a significant change in how card numbers are stored and handled in beta2. I will make available any upgrade scripts so that an upgrade path exists, but I just want you to be forewarned.

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