In time for the new school year, Lamson Library at Plymouth State University officially launched its new website and catalog last week:

It's all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that you can narrow by subject and get via RSS. And if you search for subject areas like anthropology, economics, english writing, or any of a few dozen other topics, you'll find our librarians' subject guides listed at or near the top to help you out. You can also use the facets, clustered metadata shown in the right sidebar that reflect the aggregated results of that search, to easily explore the collection or find the exact resource you need.

Scriblio (née WPopac), the Mellon Award winning software developed by Plymouth State information architect Casey Bisson, is an entirely open source system built on the WordPress blogging platform. By using WordPress as its starting point, Scriblio had great features like RSS feeds, user comments, tags, and search built in from the beginning.

Best of all, since it's all open source, you can download Scriblio, install it yourself and import your own library catalog.