We launched a new website for the Library this week, featuring library hours coming out of their LibCal system instead of the Google Calendars we were previously using.

Updates

• Drupal link_attributes 8.x-1.8
• WordPress redirection plugin 4.3.1
• WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.20.3
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.9.3.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• Standardized the way that header and sidebar navigation works on the new office sites so that header nav is consistent throughout the site and sidebar nav is contextual.
• Embeded webforms from forms.middlebury.edu will now include the new Middlebury website styles.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the new Drupal video component from playing when you clicked the splash image.
• Changed the way our Drupal deployment handles CSS and JS assets. This is now done with a simple file copy operation on each of the frontend servers, rather than a full build process, which speeds up deployment and removes a binary that was hanging and eating up the CPU.
• Increased resources allocated to the sites.middlebury.edu server.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Updates

• Drupal 8.7.3
• Drupal address 8.x-1.7
• Drupal entity 8.x-1.0-rc3
• Drupal link_attributes 8.x-1.7
• Drupal role_delegation 8.x-1.0-rc1
• MediaWiki: 1.31.2
• WordPress enable-media-replace plugin 3.3.0
• WordPress foobox-image-lightbox plugin 2.7.1
• WordPress foogallery plugin 1.7.7
• WordPress jetpack plugin 7.4
• WordPress nextgen-gallery plugin 3.2.4
• WordPress redirection plugin 4.3
• WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.20.2
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.9.3
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.24

Fixes and Tweaks

• Re-enabled a dynamic system for blocking spammers attacking WordPress and Drupal sites at our firewall based on their spam attempts.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

This week we launched new versions of the Schools Abroad, Study Abroad, and School of the Environment sites. These are now running in Drupal 8 with the Middlebury design system created by Digital Pulp and Middlebury’s Digital Services team. Nearly all of the features used on these sites will be available for other school and offices sites we set up on this platform.

Updates

• WordPress badgeos plugin 2.4
• WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.20.1
• WordPress wp-accessibility plugin 1.6.10
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.22

Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed an issue where the breadcrumb was appearing twice on the Offices and Services homepage.
• Updated the Course Hub Canvas integration to remove extra sections from a Canvas site when it is used as a resource for more than one course, and then removed from one of the courses.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.

Dear Community Library Users and Fans of our Foreign Language DVD Collection:

This note is to inform you that starting Friday, May 31st, 2019, the next foreign language DVD you search for in the stacks may in fact be found in the foreign language browsing collection as we prepare for the Language Schools. Please see the map below and note the circled section on the main level, behind the browsing books collection. A selection of foreign language DVDs will be shelved there under headers that indicate their language, for example “Español.” Not all of the foreign language DVDs will be there as they will not all fit. Also, languages with schools located off campus, like Arabic and Italian, will remain in the regular DVD stacks. So please budget in extra time to seek out what you would like to find and feel free to ask library staff for assistance in locating what you seek.