Library of the Future
summary
A county library website goes live on February 29 and runs on AWS EC2 large + RDS + Solr with Drupal, Nginx, Varnish and APC; aggressive caching lets a single app box serve 23,000 visits per day for about $200/month. The site manages 800 events per month across 19 branches, holds ~11,000 CMS nodes, integrates the catalog via BiblioCommons API, uses a lightweight Ajax registration widget, and even an art inventory built in eight hours that works in production.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Library of the Future project intro
- 1:13Vignette to open source
- 2:15Cloud computing with AWS
- 3:39Drupal as platform backbone
- 8:33Drupal county websites for 3 years
- 11:46Platform architecture & engineering
- 14:15Molma County Library website
- 20:25Circulation stats & regional sharing
- 22:09Performance with APC and Varnish
- 24:58HTTPS vs caching efficiency
- 26:44Running site on $200/month
- 28:29Librarians as content creators
- 30:37Site search with Solr & Millennium
- 34:56800 events across 19 branches
- 37:02Simple registration without accounts
- 38:27Responsive design for all devices
- 40:12Theming evolution & future plans
- 41:15Multilingual support & new features
- 43:02Q&A on open source catalog systems
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