Library Solutions
From books to bookings
Imagine the ability to manage every service and facility in your library, from PC booking to late fees, all with one effective database. With endless usage applications, expansions and monetisation options, Monitor is helping libraries become self-sufficient community hubs of the future.
Customisable
Create the best fit for your community with Monitor’s modular software solution. No matter the size of your library or the community it serves, with Monitor, you can build the perfect solution.
Print Management
Print management is a Monitor speciality. With print pop-ups on your PCs, embedded MFD software and distance Secure Find-Me Print through online accounts, printing a page needn’t be a hassle for anyone.
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Computer Reservation
With bookable PCs, user logins tied to library accounts and guaranteed access to those who’ve booked, you’ll see a dramatic improvement in how public access PCs are treated by the community.
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Room & Resource Reservation
Utilise and monetise your space. Monitor gives your community the power to reserve rooms, spaces and facilities in your library, with minimal input from staff.
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Online Account Management
Free up staff time by allowing patrons to manage the small things on their own. Users can pay fees, add printing credit, book rooms and reserve PCs all through an easy online system.
Reporting
Your Monitor solutions come with Supervisor Net, a powerful database that can generate a plethora of reports. Find out how your facilities are being used, habits of high-frequency users and the true cost of materials.
One can never read the same book twice – Edmund Wilson
What’s special about your community?
We know librarians do a lot more than shush noisy teenagers and shelve books. They help people print their resumes, get the technophobic online and host classes, all while providing us with the stories that feed our imaginations.
Librarians are there to help their community with thousands of little tasks throughout the day. Every community is different, and every person is different. As the face of these community hubs, librarians understand this, and Monitor wants to be a big help by taking care of the little things.
Monitor’s modular system means your solution is customised to your community and facilities. You’ll get the exact tools you need for right now, with flexibility to change in the future.
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Get in touch for an obligation-free consultation about how we can meet your community’s needs
“I don’t use the Internet.”
As librarians, you’re happy to help your community, and that needs to include the less technologically literate among us. That’s why Monitor works alongside your current systems, so you can still give old-fashioned service and face-to-face engagement.
Give power to the people
Reduce staff involvement in charged services
Use existing cards and library systems
Convenient payment with pre-loaded credit
Environmental savings from waste reduction
Recover costs for new services as they are added
Eliminate cash handling
Your modular library solution
Track and recover real costs
Library budgets are tight. Can you afford not to track your spending? Now libraries can set pricing or quotas for users knowing the real costs, applying differing rates for staff, library card holders, students or casual users. Recover costs and monetise your under-utilised facilities, allowing you to better serve your community and re-invest into important programmes.
Easy user interface
Monitor’s Supervisor Net manages all user accounts. Everything from copiers to printing to internet usage and facility reservations. Funds can be stored on secure accounts linked to library cards, and patrons can add value online, or at a self-service kiosk. It’s a complex network of traceable data for the library, but for the user it’s as easy as swiping a card.
Efficient use of resources
Minimise user conflicts over PC and facility access by providing self-service options. Patrons or casual users can reserve PCs, rooms or resources, paying with a card or low-cost paper ticket. All users are authenticated throughout the process, whether confirming a PC reservation or printing a page. No lost documents, no waste and no conflict.
Future-proof
Monitor’s library solution is both flexible and modular. Libraries can offer card payment options for new services or products into the future. Sell old stock, run fundraisers, hire out staff expertise, incorporate a coffee shop. With Monitor managing your transactions, you’ll want to explore all sorts of exciting expansion and monetisation options.
