[Web4lib] Drupal / LibGuides / Library a la Carte question

[Angela Boyd]

So I have some more questions for you all.  For some background info,  
we're in the very very beginning exploratory stage of migrating our  
web pages to Drupal.  We still need to hire a web programmer and we're  
hoping to redesign our whole website.  We're going to be doing some  
theming and web site analysis.  However, we need to get some subject  
guides up by Fall Quarter.  Our librarians are most able to work on  
these guides over the summer so we'd like to have them able to access  
and create starting  around July or so.

So the biggest question I have is whether anyone has ever tried to  
migrate LibGuides or Library a la Carte data into Drupal.  We realize  
Drupal is a great CMS and ideally, in the end, it will all meld  
together within Drupal.  We'll probably have Drupal themed subject  
guides but that's at least a year away.  So the thought is to create  
subject guides now with one or the other and then do a data dump into  
Drupal with a little coding and tweaking later on.

Other questions include: How long did it take you to set up the Lib  
Guides or Library a la Carte so that your Librarians could start  
creating their own guides?  Our tech guys are very strapped for time  
so this one is also a biggie.

Is there a clean separate theme layer or was everything in one bucket?

How much programming did it involve to tweak everything?  How much  
programming and sysadmin time is needed for maintainance?

And lastly, would be ok for our tech guys to contact your tech guys?

Thanks everyone!

Angela Boyd
co-Web Services Librarian @ UCSB Library