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Drupal at NORWELD

Drupal is an open source web site publishing framework, distributed under the GPL (“General Public License”) that allows easy publishing, managing and organizing of a wide range of content. Thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power a variety of web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and more.

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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.

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Local History

Over the course of the past several years, NORWELD has been emphasizing the need for members to preserve, organize and make available their local history resources. The system has developed or supported three local history initiatives with local funds.

Northwest Ohio Narratives is an oral history project that involves a dozen member libraries. Since its inception in 2006, our members, with the assistance of a videographer from NORWELD, have captured over 140 interviews on videotape. These interviews, many of them relating to memories of local events and activities or experiences during World War II, have subsequently been transferred to DVD and the World Wide Web.

A second program provides for a system payment of 50% of the first year start-up costs for member libraries to join the R .B. Hayes Presidential Library Obituary Index project. This project, initiated in the 1970s by the Hayes staff, received support from NORWELD initially in 2003 when 12 of its members joined. Today, this project has 41 libraries participating with almost 1.5 million obituaries available online. A recent agreement between the library and Ancestry.com to merge their index with Ancestry's database will improve access to local obituaries since Ancestry has over 8 million unique visitors to their site every month.

The last project involves 12 member libraries working with the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus to convert their local history materials to a digitized format to make them available online for the benefit of researchers worldwide.

Northwest Ohio Narratives

Document Digitization

R.B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index