Open source · Made in Flanders
Lending in two scans, a catalogue with real covers, labels and reader cards, and figures for the head teacher. All in the browser, ready to use.
A week in the library
The parent who runs the desk on Tuesdays, the teacher with a classroom library, the children choosing a book. This is their week.
Monday morning
Scan the card, scan the book, done. The due date skips holidays and closed days by itself. Returning a book is one scan, even without the card.
At school and at home
Search by title, author, subject or reading level, with results as you type. On any phone, without an app and without signing in.
The box of new books
Scan the ISBN: title, author, publisher and cover fill in from open library sources. Add the reading level and age, and every copy gets its own barcode.
September
Import the pupil list from your school administration software as an Excel or CSV file. Before anything changes, you see who is new, who moves to a new class and who has left.
For the head teacher
Per month, per class and per reading level. The school’s favourites, and the books nobody takes home. A report for the school board or the municipality, as PDF or CSV.
A tablet by the door: pupils scan their card and see which books they have at home. After twenty seconds it all disappears again.
One slip per pupil listing their overdue books, sorted by class. No emails, no parents who need to sign in.
Cards with name, class and barcode, per class, to cut out and laminate. With your school’s name and logo.
Books from the public library keep their own label and are lent like your own. When they go back, the list adds up.
See it in action
The video comes from YouTube; it only loads when you press play.
Safe and privacy-friendly
Everything is stored in a data centre in Ireland, encrypted.
Whoever runs the library signs in with a password and a code on their phone.
No date of birth, address or photo. An email address isn’t needed.
Reading history is private and removed after the retention period the school chooses.
Download or erase a pupil’s data when parents ask.
A data processing agreement is included, and a privacy page in plain language.
Price
€10a month, per school
excl. VAT
Freeopen source (MIT)
Rather keep everything in your own hands? Install the app in your own AWS account. The guide comes with the source code.
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Tell us briefly about your library. Questions or a guided tour are welcome too.
With your school’s name and logo, and an account for whoever runs the library.
The pupil list from your school administration; books are scanned in by their ISBN.
No. Schoolbibliotheek runs in the browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
Any barcode scanner that behaves like a keyboard, wired or bluetooth. Without a scanner, use the camera of a laptop or tablet.
No. Pupils have a card with a barcode. Only the people who run the library sign in.
Importing from other library software isn’t available yet. Books with an ISBN are scanned in quickly: we look up the details and the cover for you.
Yes, under the MIT licence. You may read the source code, change it and host the app yourself.
In a separate installation per school, at Amazon Web Services in Ireland (European Union), encrypted.
Yes. Choose “other organisation” and the app uses neutral words, or the words you choose. Figures are then counted per calendar year.