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With regard to the library (FYI/FWIW:<br>
- before it's given away, perhaps the donators should be consulted. After all, they specifically donated it to kwlug.<br>
- Charles has explicitly stated in the past - if someone would like a particular book in the library, post to the list and he'll try to bring it to the next meeting for you. He's also indicated that everyone is more than welcome to stop by the Working Centre at any time to pick up a library book. i.e. Even though the entire library can't be carted around to every meeting, it is accessible and available to all - if a bit awkwardly at the moment.<br>
- there has been some discussion in the past regarding getting the list of books up on <a href="http://kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug.org</a> since the last site revamp. There doesn't appear to be any drupal add-on of decent functionality, let alone presently being maintained. (Last time I looked. I think, at least, Charles, Khalid, and I all looked. There were probably others.) There are other sites, such as <a href="http://librarything.com" target="_blank">librarything.com</a> - although they appear to have some really cool functionality with regard to books and collections (e.g. ISBN lookup), nothing I came across added the library elements of lending. If someone knows of something good, do please post.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Now that I think about it some more, a combination of CCK and Views should get us a nice list of books. ISBN would be one CCK field and hence will be searchable. Adding a taxonomy for topics will also make them browsable by things like linux, languages, system administration, ....etc. It does not have to be on <a href="http://kwlug.org">kwlug.org</a>, can be on a subdomain (<a href="http://library.kwlug.org">library.kwlug.org</a>).<br>
<br>This does not get us who has borrowed what, if we ever care about this. A simple pen and paper sheet or even Google Document spreadsheet can do that. There is also a Drupal based Google Spreadsheet like module now <a href="http://drupal.org/project/sheetnode">http://drupal.org/project/sheetnode</a> but I have not used it first hand.<br>
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