Skip to main content

5 strategies for improving school library services


May 05, 2015 Team Creatrix
library automation

Library automation solution has revolutionized schools, colleges and universities all over the world and has transformed the student’s learning experience.

Digital Libraries

Library Management System fulfills all the requirements of academic libraries with amazing features such as books, eBooks, eJournals, Audio Books, Videos, Photo Gallery and more. Librarians can benefit from the cloud, mobile and digital technologies to manage large amounts of digital records and other resources accessed by students and staff.

College library management system help to maintain the catalog, acquisition register, assets register, and reports, and integrates barcode, RFID, smart cards, and biometric system.  Here are the five strategies to improve library services:

1. Member Management

Students, faculty and staff can create profiles including demographic information and provide convenient access to library resources and information through multiple channels including website, email, chat, messaging, and push notifications from mobile devices such as iPhone and Android. Members can view issues, returns, fines, notices, and reminders, as well as search and reserve books and other materials.    

2. Next-Generation Cataloguing

Librarians can configure and create a customized catalog for books and other resources based on physical, electronic and inter-library items. Advanced search and sort options enable patrons to find library items using different criteria and provide an easy way to check the status in real-time. Barcoding enable users to find the book’s exact location and number of books available in real-time, as well as print library cards.

3. Automated Circulation & Control

Discard large collection of books with low circulation Automated library management system enable academic libraries to configure and customize rules for circulation. Librarians can simplify circulation and assign tasks to issue books, magazines journals and make a check out. They can send automatic email notifications and SMS alerts to remind patrons on overdue return of library materials including automatic calculation of fine. Different kinds of reports can be automatically generated on total number of library materials on circulation.

4. Student Driven Acquisition

Automated school libraries identifies an inevitable trend to shift to streamline libraries with value-based library collections. It paves way for improvement in the quantity and quality of materials and make outdated books and materials in the library collection redundant. Normally the procurement of library material is time-consuming, complicated and costly. The fully automated library procurement process is highly reliable and enable librarian to manage vendors and supplies with improved performance and fast response time to save time and money.

5. Mobile Library Landscape

Take your library everywhere you go and get real-time updates of circulation on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Students can conveniently access the library collections from classroom, campus and from anywhere. Librarian can schedule programs using events calendar and share with members.

Creatrix Campus offers an integrated cloud-based library management system which will transform school libraries and improve student lives. The library automation solution can reduce librarian’s workload and improve efficiencies in the areas of cataloging, acquisition, circulation, and help students and staff to access resources or search for the right information in a safe and secure way.