Library management
A real library system for your campus
Catalogue your collection, issue and return by scanning a barcode, hold reservations, and track fines — against the same learner records your registrar already maintains.
Live in production. Includes barcode circulation from the mobile app and a learner-facing loans view.
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Most campus libraries run on a book and a biro
Providers and colleges accumulate real collections — textbooks, prescribed titles, equipment, past papers — and then track them in a hardcover register, a shared spreadsheet, or the librarian’s memory. It works until somebody leaves, or an auditor asks what happened to the twenty titles bought on last year’s budget.
- Nobody can say what is currently out, or with whom, without walking the shelves.
- A learner completes and leaves still holding three books, and nothing flags it.
- Reservations are a list on paper, so the same title gets promised twice.
- Fines are inconsistently applied, which makes them impossible to defend.
- The library sits outside every other system, so it knows nothing about who is still enrolled.
What the library module does
Catalogue
Your whole collection with the metadata that matters — title, author, edition, copies, location — and printable spine labels so the shelf matches the record.
Issue and return by scan
Scan the item barcode and the borrower, and the loan is recorded. It runs on a phone, so circulation happens at the shelf rather than at a desk.
Renewals and reservations
Renew a loan, or place a hold on a title that is out, with a queue that decides fairly who gets it next.
Fines
Overdue rules applied consistently, so a fine is something you can explain rather than something you negotiate.
Borrowers who are already learners
Borrowers resolve to real learner and staff records, so the library knows who is still enrolled and who has completed.
Reports
What is out, what is overdue, what is never borrowed, and what the collection actually costs you.
Getting a library running
- 1
Load the catalogue
Import your existing list or capture titles as you shelve them, then print spine labels.
- 2
Point at your people
Borrowers come from the learner and staff records you already keep — no second directory.
- 3
Circulate by phone
Issue, return and renew by scanning, from wherever the item is.
- 4
Watch the collection
Reports show what is out, what is overdue and what nobody has ever borrowed.
Questions providers ask
Is this a full library system or a lending log?
Do we need barcode scanners?
Can learners see what they have out?
How do fines work?
Does it work for equipment as well as books?
What happens when a learner completes?
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