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Members

  • Create member
    • This creates a member if the member doesn't exist.
    • If the member exists, it will add the subscription details to that member.
  • View member details
    • View all members (table with pagination and search).
    • See and update a member's details, along with their borrows.
    • Delete member.

Items

  • InfiLib supports both books and magazines.
  • We also support reference (not borrowable) and non reference books
  • Add Items
    • By scanning or entering the ISBN of an item, you can autofill details for most books.
    • For magazines, we support library subscriptions - just select this to autofill most details. See more in Settings.
  • View items
    • By default, popular items and recent arrivals. You can view all items by clicking a link, though.
    • Table display and card display.
    • Filter by books or magazines
  • Search items
    • Basic and advanced search
    • Quick "goto" where you put ISBN/ISSN or accession number to go to the detail page.
  • Item details
    • See all borrows
    • Update fields

Circulate

  • This is the page where you view your transactions.
  • By default, a month's worth is shown, but you can change this using the "Filter" option.
  • Quickly return or delete transactions.
    • Note that for security reasons, we never delete a transaction - we just hide it from you. Should a library owner request the deleted transaction data, we will provide it.
  • Borrowing:
    • Items can be borrowed at the touch of a button from either the all item or detail view. Clicking borrow on a member also takes you to the borrow form, with that member's name being filled in.
    • Your members can "mark" books for borrow from the Public Portal, which you can "pop" when you hand over the item.
    • We don't enforce the return date - but we default it to that user's subscription's number of borrowing days.
    • Our default price is 10% of the item's price for the "Membership" (default) subscription. For any other subscription plan, the price defaults to 0.

Statistics

  • Just check it out, it's brilliant! We're working on it to give you something even better.
  • We currently support both a textual "report" and charts.

Settings

  • Add a subscription "type" - by default, every library has a Membership subscription. Different member can have different subscriptions, which will affect item prices, the number of items a member can have at once, and the number of days the user can have it for.
  • Add a library subscription - little confusing with the same name, but this refers to you, the librarian, subscribing for a magazine or periodical. This can be used to autofill magazine details later on when you add them.
  • The actual settings
    • Free Library? If checked, converts your library into a library that is free to borrow from. Useful for school or office libraries.

Other nice titbits

  • Quick navigation: you can go to an item or member from any table or form when you select that record.
  • Support for free libraries
  • All tables can be viewed in full screen.
  • Users can view and mark books for borrow at a specific time while sitting in their houses - using the Public Portal.
  • Importing is available.
  • In the circulation page, you have color marking for items that are due.

Upcoming

  • Leaderboards
  • Far better customization in Library Settings
  • Improved Public Portal
  • Readathons
  • Better subscription models
  • Improved statistics
  • Item filtering and shortcuts
  • Better design (!)
  • User "connections" with each other, and so much more!

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Email us to suggest a feature or report a bug. You can also open an issue right here in GitHub.