Features and Benefits

Maximise The Potential Of Your Assistive Technology Pool

Features and benefits include a fully functional dedicated AT library app, reduced costs, increased accuracy, multi-branch, automatic emails, graphical reporting.

Easy to Manage

View every function from one central dashboard
Access your information 24/7
Log on from anywhere, from your phone, tablet, PC or laptop
Hosted service, no need for specialist IT skills
Support staff ready to help
Customisable with organisations’ logo and branding

A summary of the requests/holds and loans relating to a librarian's branch, by status. Each section of the dashboard is expandable to reveal the list of requests (holds) or loans that it represents. — A summary of the requests/holds and loans relating to a librarian’s branch, by status. Each section of the dashboard is expandable to reveal the list of requests (holds) or loans that it represents.

Purchase Analysis Report — A multi aspect report listing the breakdown between loans that resulted in subsequent purchase versus non-purchase of the trialed AT devices.

Measure Effectiveness – Justify Funding

After the trial, did the end user purchase the item. Analyse the answer to this question across a number of angles to give a good indication of where your program is most successful.

Overall split
Analysis by location (centre/district)
Analysis by Product
Analysis by location/product

Be in Control

Easily find specific products
Check-outs and Check-ins update stock in realtime
Each stock-item tracked individually
Track components if required
Supports barcodes and scanning if required

A pie chart showing the total stock broken down by status, listing value and count. This report/graphic is a brilliant way to get an instant picture of the stock utilisation within your library.

Screenshot of members loan status. — Screenshot showing a summary of a member loans, i.e. the requests that the logged in member has in the library, the loans that the member currently haa out and the items that are finished with, but have yet to get back to the branch. Each summary total is expandable to list the individual loan details.

Stay on top of you Loans

Track and manage the entire loan process, even cross branch and cross-organisation
Support a range of loan authorisation and equipment collection and delivery methods
Notify administrators and service users of events in loan cycle
Track and monitor needs and history of individual service users
Track returns-to-supplier for cleaning & repairs
Highlight overdue loans
Default maximum loans, plus configurable by member

Never Forget

Member is notified when item is checked-out to a courier/posted
When an item is coming near its return date, the member is notified
Both the member and the relevant librarian are notified when an item is overdue, and again when it is due
Administrators and librarians are notified when an item is written off, missing or damaged
Notify members with loans when a courier is scheduled
Inform member when an out-of-stock requested product comes back into stock
Inform librarian when loan request is placed
Inform librarians when items are available for collection
Courtesy email to member on return of an item

An image of a blue envelope — The application generates a number of automated information and reminder emails as part of the request and loan cycles.

Peer support screenshot — Members can read peer reviews of products within the library, as well as write reviews themselves. They can also flag products which they are willing to provide support for, and also see the list of their peers that will provide support on a product.

Support your Colleagues

See who provides support for a product
Opt to provide support for a product
Read product reviews
Write product reviews

Enjoy Shared Resources

Combine branch (repository) stocks within an organisation
Combine stocks across multiple organisations, increasing AT usage & efficiency
Branch transfer facilities
Return-to-Supplier facilities for returns and repair/cleaning
Single look-up point for members, regardless of how many branches
Librarians can review stocks across all branches
Reduce abandonment of AT

Resource Sharing graphic — ATLibrary allows organisations with multiple branches to present the stock in a unified way. Separate organisations can pool their resources, improving efficiency and user experience (just one place to look).

User feedback pie-chart — Your admin user(s) can configure a number of feedback questions relevant to your specific environment, which will be asked during the returns process. The results can be displayed as a pie-chart at the touch of a button.

Information at your Fingertips

Top 10 loaned Products bar chart and top 10 Users bar chart
Top 10 products being damaged or lost
Top 10 out-of-stock products and long lead-days (above a threshold)
Loans value, stock value by product and stock value by status reports
User configurable feedback reports, e.g. Region, Program, Centre, Disability etc.
Table listings, e.g. product, stock, user etc.
All of the above are extractable as CSV (spreadsheet) files and well as MS Excel, MS Word and PDF documents

Accessible to all

ATLibrary Software meets the highest standards of accessibility
The application rigorously follows the W3C Web Site Accessibility Guidelines
It has a clear navigation structure that supports mice, keyboards, screen readers, Braille terminals and speech interfaces
The web interface uses semantically meaningful HTML
Text can be enlarged, and all images and links have text equivalents
We endeavour to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

W3C graphic — ATLibrary is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

Screenshot showing the six product categories, plus a text search box. — The user can search the catalog by text search or by drilling down through the catalog categories, into the sub-categories, then into a product list for that sub-category.

Seamlessly searchable catalogue and basket

Easily find specific products by name
Easily find specific products by category/sub-category
Product can belong to more than one category/sub-category
Catalog displays full product details
Add to the basket as you go

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