247lib.com

247lib.com is the all-singing, all-dancing library management system that caters for any type and size of library and gives you scope to expand. It can manage all your resources, physical (e.g. books and equipment), digital (e.g. electronic files) or virtual (events, meeting room bookings, accommodation bookings, promotions). Why buy several systems when one system will do it all?

Key benefits of the 247lib.com library management system, as reported by our clients in user surveys

247lib.com is:

• intuitive, easy to use and learn, so you can get started quickly.
• robust, reliable and we get great support from the UK based developers.
• scalable so it suits small libraries with perhaps 1 part time librarian to large libraries with millions of transactions
• comprehensive – you get all the functionality in one system and librarians simply turn on what they need.
• a great communication service – send automated notices via email or SMS and save time
• configurable – the library supervisor simply turns features on using a web browser application (supervisor module)
• cloud-based – no need to install any software
• based on industry standards – MARC 21, Z39.50, XML for interoperability with other systems
• high quality management information, comprehensive statistics and flexible reporting
• 247lib.com is very affordable and has an attractive pricing model

Other Benefits of the 247lib.com Library Management System

247lib.com Offers Fast Onboarding

Over 30 years ANS have been developing leading-edge library management solutions for LMS vendors for over 30 years, and have built utilities to migrate information from other systems smoothly and quickly. This reduces your onboarding costs and allows fast roll-outs.

247lib.com is a Highly Configurable, Fully Integrated Library Management System

The following modules can be turned on or off as needed to increase the scope of your services:

Easy Change Management and Extensive Functionality in One System

Library and IT consultants are expensive, so if you are empowered to do change management yourself and expand your services as your library grows you may save significant costs.

Tailored and Engaging Portals Designed to Showcase Your Collections

Our online portals are designed to showcase your services, so why settle for a second best generic portal design! Our designers will work with you to build truly engaging websites.

247lib.com online portals are tailored to each user with fully branded exciting user interfaces.

Some Example Testimonials are Provided Below:

Public Library:

‘We have not found anything which 247lib.com can not do. We switched from a very traditional library management system, which is widely used in the UK, to a lesser known solution – 247lib.com, but the risk was worth it. We get great support and our public libraries successfully manage School Library Services as well. 247lib.com is just better in every way’ – the Lesedi public libraries.

Special Library Library – Charity:

‘As a small charity we can not afford to employ a full-time librarian. A good ‘self-service application’ is not an option for us but ‘essential’. Our members can visit our library and check items in and out easily using simple instructions without any resident librarian – an excellent system’ – part-time librarian for a charity.

Government Library:

‘…247lib has proved extremely capable, supporting full MARC cataloguing, to rare book standards where necessary, and also offering good search facilities for collections which are extremely varied, ranging from rare books and manuscripts from the 16th century onwards, through legal and technical manuals, to highly-classified operational records held in a discrete, secure database’ – the MoD

Health Library:

‘…we used OCLC’s Amlib which was supported by Applied Network Solutions and moved to 247lib.com when it was first launched.. 247lib.com has been upgraded several times since then. We are very happy with it and the support team are always very helpful with changes, available for advice and quick to get back to us …’ – Head of Library and Knowledge Services.

A Consortia of Colleges:

‘ … as a consortia of colleges with 50,000 students, our use of 247lib.com has grown from just one college to five colleges and it has all happened so easily without any hiccups. We could not have done this without the assistance of the ANS support desk, who were always on hand. The ANS support has proved responsive at every step’ – Head Librarian of college consortia.

A School Library:

‘ … we have a beautiful school library with some unique collections. We chose 247lib.com, because they could provide an online portal, which was really eye-catching, and allowed us to manage our library collections to professional standards … The librarians at ANS were also able to provide some very useful guidance’ – a school librarian

A University and Digital Library (REF2021):

REF2021 was a digital library of the latest research in 2020/2021, which allowed researchers to kickstart their research by reviewing the work of like-minded researchers in other universities.

‘… Our university library does not really help researchers, because as soon as new technology s published it is out of date….With REF2021 our researchers saw the latest research, and were able to establish new research partnership to advance their projects. …. This was particularly important to us, since our university does so much research …’ – Aberdeen University

Corporate Library and Archives:

‘ … we selected 247lib.com because it had the flexibility to manage both our archives of projects and documents as well as our library. … The flexibility to configure 247lib.com to address our requirements has proved invaluable …’ – Head Librarian of oil company.

Law Library:

‘… we needed partners who could help with the digitization of rare and valuable legal papers, and a solution which could support both a digital collection and a National library … Our library is accessible to all the legal professionals in Mauritius … This was a substantial project and ANS have done a great job ‘ – the Mauritius Judiciary.