For schools, universities & small private libraries
The Simplest & Quickest
Library Management System
BeeShelf is the an intuitive and modern Integrated Library Management System (ILS & LMS) for groups, institutions or companies looking for a simple way to manage their collections. Cataloging takes seconds using a mobile phone, checkout takes a tap, and your members get to browse catalogues in ways that encourage reading.
Free to start. No card. Your data is private and always yours.
A real record, built from a scan in under two seconds.
Why we built it
A library isn't a place that lends books. It's a place that helps people become readers, and keeps what a community knows within reach.
Most libraries struggle with managing huge catalogues using manual methods or tedious software. BeeShelf take the hassle out of managing your library, so you can run it right from any phone or computer.
Cataloging
From a pile of donations to a shelf, in an afternoon.
Scan a barcode and the full record is there: cover, author, a real publisher summary, a suggested shelf. No barcode? Photograph the cover and BeeShelf reads the title to find it.
- Real catalog data first. We only ask AI to fill the gaps a publisher left, and we label it when we do.
- The first time anyone on BeeShelf scans a book, everyone gets that record for free. Your catalog gets faster as more libraries join.
- Clean records land approved; the doubtful ones wait in a review pile. You never babysit the easy ones.
Circulation
Fast, intuitive and decentralised borrowing.
Checkout runs from your phone, standing in the middle of the room. Scan a card, scan a book, it's out. The confirmation is instant, so you never have queues of restless readers.
- Sub-second confirmation, even on a patchy connection.
- Renewals, holds, and fines you can find and change yourself, without a support ticket.
- Fine-free if that's your policy. It's a setting, not a special request.
Discovery
An engaging catalog to fly through your shelves.
2D and 3D fly-throughs of every book in your catalogue, and when you see something you like, just stop, click and borrow.
Because you loved Tomorrow's Tide
- The Salt Road N. Okri coastal, quiet, literary
- Migrations C. McConaghy sea, longing, climate
- A Tale for the Time Being R. Ozeki tides, memory
- The Old Drift N. Serpell place across time
The same list a screen reader gets. The space is the view; the ranking is the truth underneath it.
Requests
Instant feedback on missing books.
For any searches that yield "no results", BeeShelf asks the member if they'd like it, then ranks what people are asking for so you can spend the book budget on what your community actually wants. When it arrives, the people who asked can get notified.
- Duplicate asks collapse into one entry with a count, so you see demand, not noise.
- Ranking you can read and adjust, never a black box.
- Mark it acquired and everyone who wanted it is notified, with a hold waiting.
Stocktake
The yearly count, done in an afternoon instead of a week.
Walk the shelves and sweep your phone along the spines. Anything the system expects but doesn't see gets flagged. You end the day with a clean list of what's missing and what's out of place, not a week of dread you keep postponing.
- Every scan you already do keeps the count current, so this is barely extra work.
- Works in the stacks where the signal is bad, and catches up when you're back in range.
- Fix a wrong "lost" flag or a shelving slip right from the list.
Privacy
Reading is private. We built the system that way.
A taste profile makes discovery better, and it belongs to the member, not to us. They can see exactly what it knows, and a school can turn personalization off entirely and run on popularity alone. Nothing is ever sold, and your whole catalog exports the day you ask.
Make it yours
Fully customisable to your brand.
Members see your library's name, brand and colours, tailored to your exact requirements.
Pick a colour
One colour and a logo re-skin every screen your members see. The yellow Borrow button never moves. The colour that means "do it" stays constant, on purpose.
Who it's for
From people with 10 books to lend out, to universities with 10,000,000
Schools
Get a class reading without an IT department or a budget for one.
Universities and Colleges
Real cataloging standards when you want them, hidden when you don't.
Corporate Organizations
Keep what your organization knows findable instead of forgotten.
NGOs & Community
Nearly free, nearly self-explanatory, forgiving of a shaky connection.
Catalog your first shelf today.
Free to start, no card, and your library up and running in no time!