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NORWELD has been working with a number of our regional libraries to develop Drupal web sites that will make it easier for libraries to maintain their content, while implementing more Library/Web 2.0 capabilities than ever before. NORWELD has developed a Drupal  training workshop, to facilitate site transition and updating. New Workshops TBD

NORWELD Drupal sites:

We have 50 member libraries.  And, of this 50, we host 35 Drupal sites and 2 non-Drupal sites.

Other Ohio Drupal sites:

Worthington Libraries
ExploreOhio
Westlake Porter Public Library
Athens County Public Library
Cleveland Public Library

National Drupal sites:

Warner Brothers Records
The New York Observer
Popular Science
Lifetime Television
The Onion
Fox Searchlight - The specialty film division of 20th Century Fox
Amnesty International.

NORWELD, in cooperation with seven of its member libraries, has created a "web exhibit" about World War II that's been taken from over 140 oral history interviews conducted in the region. "My War: Northwest Ohioans Remember World War II" brings local perspective to a subject that was brought to renewed national prominence by a Ken Burns documentary, "The War."

The web exhibit covers subjects ranging from military training and combat to communications and censorship, life in the military, and the impact of the war on the home front. The clips are searchable by library where the interviews were shot as well as by subject.

The streaming video interviews can be found at www.ohiomemory.org/norweld.  We are in the process of upgrading the videos to a clear resolution Flash based presentation. Some are viewable as Flash and others are still viewed with Windows Media Player.

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Drupal Users - a listserv for sharing ideas and questions about Drupal.

Digitization Project  - A listserv for participating NORWELD libraries

Norweld News - A listserv for general communication purposes.

YS List - A listserv for Youth Services librarians.

Tech List - A listserv for technology discussions and news.

A cooperative program among the Hayes Presidential Center and 45 Ohio libraries where a web-based index is maintained with over 1.7 million obituary, death, and marriage notices from Ohio from the 1810s to the present day. NORWELD member libraries are provided an initial subsidy by the system to join the project.

R.B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index

Additional information can be obtained by contacting Becky Hill or Allan Gray