Openbiblio was created in 2002 by Dave Stevens, who was interested in creating an easy-to-use, well-documented, easy-to-install library system. The current maintainer is Hans van der Weij. After 2017, the current version with a variety of options and bugfixes was published on openbiblio.de.
Implementations and usage Though the system is still under active development, it has already become widely used in small libraries and archives worldwide. Researchers from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico have recommended the use of the system in indigenous community libraries in Mexico, particularly because of its support of the
Nahuatl language. The
National Library of Armenia has recommended the use of OpenBiblio for the country's 900 small (fewer than 40,000 volumes) and rural libraries. The system has been translated into Spanish by a professor of
Castilian, and is used in the
primary school system in
Chile. In addition,
Colombia,
Cuba and
Venezuela have expressed an interest in this program, according to Werner Westerman of the Chilean Educalibre group. Researchers from the
Federal University of Paraíba's Information Science department also discuss the use of OpenBiblio in teaching future librarians about library automation systems.
Forks • Jorge Lara began translating OpenBiblio's code base into Spanish, and ultimately created a fork of the project called EspaBiblio. • Jack Eapen based the WebBiblio Subject Gateway System on OpenBiblio. ==Features==