Glossary

A quick reference for the terms you’ll meet across BeeShelf.

Term	What it means
Catalog	Your library’s full list of titles and the copies of each. The Catalog tab is where you add to it.
Title	A book as a work, for example Born a Crime. One title can have many copies.
Edition	A specific published version of a title, with its own ISBN, publisher, and year.
Copy (item)	A single physical book on the shelf, with its own barcode. Three copies of one title are three items.
ISBN	The number in the barcode on most modern books. BeeShelf uses it to look up a book’s details.
Member	Anyone who can borrow. Includes readers who registered themselves in the app.
Category	A group of members (for example Students, Staff) that lending rules can differ between.
Loan	A book checked out to a member, with a due date.
Hold	A reservation. A member waits in a queue, then collects the book when a copy is free.
Renewal	Extending a loan’s due date, up to the limit your rules allow.
Fine	A charge for an overdue book. Off by default; set per day in the lending rules.
Request	A member asking the library to get a book it doesn’t have. Requests are ranked by demand.
Stocktake	Checking the shelves against the catalog by scanning, to find what’s missing.
Condition flag	A fact about a copy (not for loan, damaged, lost, withdrawn, restricted). See Item condition flags.
Slug	The short name in your library’s web address, for example riverside in riverside.bshelf.app.
Staff Console	The desktop app where librarians run the library, at /staff.
Reader app	The phone-friendly app where members find and borrow books.
White-label	Putting your library’s name and colour on the app instead of ours. See Branding.