About Scriblio
What Is Scriblio?
Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Free and open source
- Represents bibliographic collections — library catalogs and such — in an easily searchable, highly remixable web-based format
- Leverages WordPress to offer rich content management features for all a library’s content
- Free and open source
What’s it look like?
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Getting Started With Scriblio?
- Getting Scriblio and related files
- Installing Scriblio on your server
- Managing Scriblio at your place of work
- Using Scriblio as an end user
Sites Running Scriblio
- Lamson Library, of Plymouth State University
- Cook Memorial Library, in Tamworth New Hampshire (our public library development partner)
- Beyond Brown Paper, an archive of photos from the Brown Manufacturing Company in northern New Hampshire
- Boston University School of Theology’s History of Missiology collection
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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August 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Hello
I’ve seen the implementations of Scriblio, and is very interested in trying it out - any news on when it will be openly awailable?
Kent Gottschalk Hansen
National Art Library Denmark
August 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
@Kent:
You’re in luck. You can download it here, and please join the mail list.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
I think this is a great tool. Will test drive it sometime this week and will write a review.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:11 am
How do you interface this with an Innovative catalog?
March 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
@jones:
The documentation is lagging behind the code, but…
After installing Scriblio activate the Scriblio III Importer plugin. Go to Manage > Import > Scriblio III Importer. And follow the steps as they appear in these screenshots: http://flickr.com/photos/scriblio/sets/72157603031251442/
March 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’ve been approached by a community of bibliophiles who want to share their personal collections online. Rather that have them catalogue their books/DVDs/CDs individually, it would be nice for them to be able to search the worldcat records Scriblio is based on and click ‘add to my collection’. I can then build the system so they can share their media with one another accordingly.
Can I use Scriblio’s database for this do you think?
April 14th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Hi, I am trying to import records from my catalogue into Scriblio and I am unable to do so. Could this be because I do not have III’s XML Server installed?
Thanks a lot.
David Kane
Systems Librarian, Waterford Institute of Technology
(Using WordPress 2.5)
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[...] most of the other libraries, the Lamson Library of the PSU website is powered by Scriblio (formerly WPopac) , a free, open source Content Management System (CMS) and Online Public Access [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Will this work with asp? We use SirsiDynix, but it’s an off site application. They host our catalog and we access it over the net. Patrons don’t know the difference. Point is—we don’t actually house content on our servers.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
[...] - The Plymouth State University Lamson Library’s OPAC runs on WPopac, now known as Scriblio. You can access the site [...]
June 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
[...] sobre WordPress y sus posibilidades, me encuentro con herramientas que realmente me sorprenden. Scriblio es una de ellas. Inscrita por Dídac Margaix, dentro del grupo de diferentes modelos existentes de [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Hey guys,
I’m doing some volunteer work for a child counselling place.
They have about 500 books and need them catalogued and want an electronic borrowing system (at the moment they are using a book)
I’ve found some free software like Koha and Greenstone, but it’s too complicated…I’m after something really simple.
Scriblio sounds great - but not sure if it has a borrowing feature (circulation)…if not, any recommendations