Catalog and Copies
Add a book by ISBN and SCL pulls the title, author, publisher and cover art from Google Books and Open Library. Generate barcoded copies in a batch, each with its own accession number and shelf location.
Library
Every Book and Every Borrower, in One Place
SCL Library is a complete lending library inside the system your school already runs. The staff member who runs it gets a catalog, a circulation desk, a reservation queue and shelf audits. Students and teachers get a place to find books, and parents can see what their children are reading, with no separate system and no second login.
Library Management
One-Scan Circulation
The Circulation Desk issues, returns and renews a book from a single barcode scan, using any USB scanner as a keyboard. Loan rules apply themselves per borrower group, enforcing loan periods, book limits and renewal caps.
Reservation Queue
Readers place a hold on a title that is out, and SCL queues them in order and shows each one their position. When a copy is returned it is set aside for the next reader in line, who is notified that it is ready.
Class Sets
Issue a title to a whole class in one action, instead of booking thirty separate loans. When the set comes back, return it all at once or copy by copy, marking anything that came back damaged or lost.
Reading Challenges
Set a reading goal for the whole school, for chosen educational levels or for specific classrooms, counting books or pages over a date window. Progress is calculated live from real loans, and a completions report shows who reached the goal.
Shelf Audits
Open a stocktake session and scan the shelves to check the collection against the catalog. SCL flags every copy that turns up in the wrong place, is already out on loan, or is not in the catalog at all.
See it in SCL
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The Circulation Desk: scan a barcode, see current loans, renew and return
SCL Today
Open to Every Reader, Easier to Run
A Shelf for Teachers Too
Teachers have their own My Shelf, listing the books they want to read, are reading or have finished beside their loans and reading history. Staff who model reading get the same tools as their students.
Who May Borrow
The library decides separately whether students, teachers and other staff can borrow at the desk, and copies kept for reference can never be issued. Librarians open the collection to the whole school on their own terms.
Notices on Your Channels
Library notices go out as an in-app message, an email, a push notification or any mix the school picks, and a reader is told when a book set aside for them is back in the queue because the copy was damaged or lost. Nobody walks to the desk for a book that is not there.
Covers for Every Book
One click searches Google Books and Open Library for every book that still has no cover and downloads what it finds in the background. A catalog brought in from an old system looks complete on the shelves students browse.
Discovery for Readers and Families
Discover
Students, teachers and parents browse the catalog by category, reading level or collection, and see at a glance how many copies are free to borrow. Every book page suggests other titles the reader might like.
My Shelf
Students keep a shelf of what they want to read, what they are reading and what they have finished, next to their current loans and full reading history. Parents see the same shelf for their children.
Reader Reviews
Students and teachers rate a book from one to five stars and can add a written review. By default a rating appears at once while a written review waits for a librarian to approve it, and the library decides what needs approval.
Due Date Notices
SCL sends a reminder before a book is due and again once it is overdue, as a phone notification and a message in the app. The school chooses how many days of warning to give, and readers can switch the notices off themselves.
Connected modules
Works Hand in Hand With
These modules share the same student record, so what happens in one shows in the others.
Parent Portal
One app for grades, attendance, fees, messages, behaviour and medical details, across every child a family has at your school. Web and mobile.
Student Information System
One student record from the first application to the final transcript. Profiles, guardians, documents, health, behaviour and academic history in a single SIS.