Everything New Is New Again
Catching up on a lot of old news:
I asked for a new name when I announced it, and early this year the Plymouth State University executive cabinet officially renamed WPopac as Scriblio.
The name comes from Lichen Rancourt, who immediately saw the potential in the software to serve small, underfunded, and rural libraries. She started lobbying hard to make Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth a development partner so they could get it. Cook is an outstanding library, and Lichen happens to know the director. Lichen worked on the implementation of Scriblio for Cook Memorial — which involved the first full re-write of Scriblio — for the latter half of 2006 and launched in January 2007. Thanks to the Mellon Award funds, Lichen officially joined the Scriblio project at the beginning of 2007.
The new website is coming together slowly. We need a new logo (more on that later), but the theme (and a lot of great JavaScript you can’t see just now) comes courtesy of Matthew Batchelder, who keeps asking me when the rest of the site will go live (so we can all see the super accessible, very sweet Ajax he did for it).
The big question is “when can I use Scriblio?” The short answer is “soon.” Really. I mean that this time.
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Hi Casey this looks great. I’m going to pass this around at LibriVox.org … to see if we might be interested in integrating. we have built a custom database catalog/management system for our needs, but this might be an elegant solution to the front-end. Have not poked around much, but I am curious.
also I am on the board of directors of a little library, atwaterlibrary.ca … and this could be of interest.
cheers,
Hugh McGuire.
June 7th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Hello,
I’m doing a project for a smallish library (15,000 items) where we’re basically populating an ILS and its OPAC almost from scratch and creating an accompanying Wordpress website, and this looks seriously exciting. You’ve said it will be available soon - and I’d be very happy to help test it and see how it works for us. Any more precise idea on when you might release it? Or let me have a tarball so I can play anyway?
Martin
September 7th, 2007 at 6:09 am
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