The system has been translated into Spanish by a professor of Castilian, and is used in the primary school system in Chile. 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. 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. Though the system is still under active development, it has already become widely used in small libraries and archives worldwide. After 2017, the current version with a variety of options and bugfixes was published on. The current maintainer is Hans van der Weij. 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 software is popular with small and rural libraries worldwide due to its simplicity, extensive language support, and good documentation.

OpenBiblio is an open source Integrated Library System.

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