[Web4lib] Re: CMS (Content Management System)

[Cary Gordon]

As someone who works with and supports Drupal for a living, I like my  
job and love the product. Drupal has strong support and growing  
market penetration in the library community, as well as a burgeoning,  
active international user community.

Drupal has long been lauded for its capabilities and functionality.  
The current version has made it significantly easier to install and  
administer. The next version -- cue in the next month or so -- make  
more improvements in those areas, and also make the theming process  
much faster and easier.

Drupal is now scalable enough that mega-sites like Lifetime TV and  
the Sony artist series use it.

Good stuff, even if I am biased <g>.

Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com



On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Raumin Ray Dehghan wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
>    This is a cross posting.
>
>    Our library is considering implementing a CMS (Content  
> Management System) for managing our website.  We may end up using  
> it for more things - intranet, calendars, email (??)  We are a  
> small to medium size public library serving a community of about  
> 20-24,000 people.  One CMS we are considering is Drupal.
>
>   I would appreciate any input regarding experiences, advantages,  
> disadvantages, opinions, etc. regarding CMS, which is best, etc.
>
>   I would also appreciate any recommendations for books, websites,  
> etc. on the topic.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
> West Chicago Public Library
> West Chicago, Illinois