Library ManagementThe library, ready when the reader is
Catalogue a title once — print and digital in the same record — and lend it from a desk where any phone is the barcode scanner. The reading room, the reserve shelf and the returns desk all read the same book.
Why
LibMS
The library, ready when the reader isOne catalogue for the shelf and the screen, and a desk that keeps up with the queue.
Catalogued once
A title entered at accession is the same title the shelf, the reserve queue and a reader's search find.
The desk keeps going
When the line to the internet dips, issuing and returning carry on, and the record catches up afterwards.
The catalogue is yours
Your accession record, holdings and borrowing history belong to the institution, and leave with you in a readable form.
Nothing left to file
The librarian locks up when the last reader leaves, with no slips to sort and no register to copy out.
Today
The catalogue says one thing, the shelf another, and the e-book subscription sits in a third place nobody checks. The queue at the circulation desk moves at the speed of a hand-written slip, and when a reader asks whether a title is in, the honest answer is often “let me go and look.”
What we did about it
We sat at circulation desks and watched the day go past — the slips, the ledgers, the drawer of cards, the reader waiting while somebody walked to a shelf. Then we built the desk we wished those librarians had: one catalogue for print and digital alike, checkout as a single scan, and any phone at the desk doubling as the barcode scanner. Scan an ISBN and the record fills itself in.
Inside
LibMS
From accessionto the reserve shelf
Cataloguing that fills itself in
Scan an ISBN and the title, author, classification and cover art arrive on their own.
A desk that keeps up
Issue and return with a single scan — the phone at the desk is the scanner.
The digital shelf
E-books live in the same catalogue as print, borrowed and returned the same way.
Stock-taking without the shutdown
Audit the shelves as they stand; the record squares itself as you go.
House rules, kept by the system
Loan periods, fines and closed days follow your calendar — nobody argues with a date again.
Know your collection
What is read, what waits on the reserve shelf, and what deserves the next acquisition.
From suggestion to shelf
A reader's request becomes an order, an arrival, and a shelved copy — with the budget in view.
Every library on one catalogue
Department collections, branch reading rooms and the main library share one catalogue, and a copy can travel between them.
What changes
Who stops walking to check the shelf
The queue moves. A reader searches the whole collection — the shelf and the digital library together — and finds what the institution already owns. And the librarian gets to be a librarian again: guiding reading and growing the collection, not filing slips.
Librarians & desk staff
The queue moves at the speed of a scan, and closing time stops being filing time.
Scholars & students
One search across the shelf and the digital library — and a reserve queue that actually queues.
Deans & management
A collection you can finally see whole: what is held, what is out, and what is worth acquiring next.
A day
with it
One book's day from carton to returns trolley
Everything is written once, at the desk where it happens, and read everywhere it is needed afterwards.
A title arrives
Scan the ISBN; the catalogue writes the record and assigns the copy its barcode.
A reader borrows it
One scan at the desk — eligibility, due date and receipt handled in the moment.
Reading carries on anywhere
The digital shelf stays open after hours, and the desk keeps working when the line dips.
The book comes home
Return, reserve queue and the record squared away — nothing to file at closing time.
Controls
Kept as a librarian would keep it
Who may issue, who may waive, who may withdraw a copy — and what the library keeps to itself.
Your reading room, your shelves
Staff in a branch reading room work their own shelves and their own borrowers; withdrawing a copy stays with the librarian in charge.
Who was at the desk
Every issue, renewal, waived fine and withdrawn copy carries the name of whoever did it and the moment it happened.
What a reader borrows
A reader's borrowing history stays between reader and library — a tutor cannot look up what a student has been reading.
The waiver, on the record
Waiving a fine, writing off a lost copy or withdrawing a title carries the approval with it, not an initial on a slip.
The register is yours
The accession register, holdings and loan history are the library's own, and come out whole, in a form another catalogue can read.
The queue keeps moving
When the line dips, the desk keeps issuing and returning; the queue does not stop, and the catalogue squares up afterwards.
Works
with
One record,not one more system
LibMS can be adopted on its own. It is worth more beside the rest, because a record entered once is known to all of them — nobody types the same student in twice.
Learning Management
Teach, set work and grade in one place — and the mark reaches the record on its own.
Explore LMSInstitutes Management
The daily record of the institution — attendance, timetables, reports and the family window.
Explore IMSExamination & Assessment
The examination season as one sealed record — papers, seating, valuation and the result.
Explore ExamsAdmissions & Enrolment CRM
Every enquiry in one pipeline — answered while the family is still deciding.
Explore AdmissionsFees, Billing & Accounting
Fees defined once, collected without a queue, and a ledger that agrees with the bank.
Explore FinanceHR & Payroll
Everyone who works here — records, attendance, leave and payslips — in one place.
Explore PeopleFleet & Routes
Routes planned from where riders live, and every bus visible to the desk and the family.
Explore TransportHostel & Residence
Rooms, mess and the night roll — the residential half of the institution, on the same record.
Explore HostelPlacements & Careers
The placement season as a record — recruiters, drives, candidates and the offer.
Explore PlacementsAlumni & Advancement
The register that keeps going after graduation — people, chapters, events and giving.
Explore AlumniAccreditation & Compliance
Accreditation and statutory returns assembled from the record the institution already keeps.
Explore ComplianceRecords & Certificates
Transcripts, certificates and verifications issued from the record — and provable afterwards.
Explore RecordsInventory & Procurement
Stores, assets and purchasing — from the indent a department raises to the item on the shelf.
Explore StoresResearch & Grants
Projects, funding, scholars and output — the research record a university can actually produce.
Explore ResearchHealth & Wellbeing
The infirmary, counselling and welfare record — held carefully, and seen only by those who should.
Explore CareeOffice: Files, Notings & Approvals
Files, notings, correspondence and approvals — the office that moves without the trolley.
Explore eOfficeBoard, Committee & Meetings
Agendas, papers, minutes and the actions that follow — governance kept as a record.
Explore MeetingsInternal Quality Assurance Cell
The quality cell as it actually works — its members, its sittings, its feedback, its audits and the year's report.
Explore IQACQuestions & Answers
What librarians ask before the first scan
Our accession register goes back decades — does it come across?
Yes. Whatever the holdings are kept in now — a bound register, a spreadsheet, an older system — comes across with your own accession numbers intact, so the number written inside a copy is still the number the desk reads. Records that were thin arrive thin, though: an older, rare or regional title with no ISBN to scan is still typed in once by a human, and that part you keep doing.
Must the whole collection be barcoded before we start?
No, and no library should shut for a weekend to do it. New arrivals are labelled at accession, and the older stock is labelled shelf by shelf during stock-taking or the first time a copy comes back to the desk. Labels you already use keep working if the desk can read them.
What happens to the books already out on loan?
They are entered as they stand, with the due dates they already carry, and nothing is recalled to make the record look tidy. A book issued on a slip in March comes back in June, is returned with a scan, and joins the record at that moment. Fines already owed can be carried in or written off at the changeover — that call belongs to the librarian.
Our e-books are licensed elsewhere — do they fit in?
The licence stays where you bought it; we do not re-license or take over another publisher's collection. The catalogue records what your readers have access to and sends them straight through, so one search covers the shelf and the screen rather than three places to look. Material the institution owns outright — theses, past papers, a scanned local collection — can live on the digital shelf itself.
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