Catalogue.
Circulate.
OPAC. RFID-fast.
Run a 200-book primary library or a 50,000-book senior library on the same engine. Students search, reserve, borrow, and read — physical or digital. Librarians stop spending afternoons on Excel.
aCloud Library Management handles school libraries of any size — MARC21-compliant cataloguing, RFID/barcode circulation, online public access catalogue (OPAC), digital library with NDLI integration, fine management, and full library reports.
Everything Library needs.
Nothing it doesn't.
Every feature below is included in the core module — not an add-on, not "coming soon", not "talk to your account manager".
MARC21 / Dublin Core Catalogue
Standard cataloguing schema. Bulk import from BNB / Library of Congress. ISBN auto-fetch. Subject classification (DDC/UDC).
Acquisition & Vendor Management
Indent → quotation → PO → GRN. Multi-vendor comparison. Approval workflow. Audit-ready trail.
Circulation Engine
Issue, return, renew, reserve. RFID or barcode. Fines auto-calculated. Holds queue. Suspended members.
OPAC (Online Public Access)
Students and staff search by title, author, subject, ISBN, keyword. From parent app, student app, web. See what's in, what's on hold, what's coming.
Digital Library / e-Books
PDF and EPUB hosting. NDLI (National Digital Library of India) integration. Download caps, DRM-friendly viewing.
Fine Management
Per-category fine rules. Grace period. Auto-waiver eligibility. Integrated with fee system for collection.
Reservations & Holds
Reserve a checked-out book. Auto-notify when returned. First-come-first-served queue. Cancellable.
Stock Verification
Annual stocktake via RFID/barcode scan. Missing-book report. Lost-book recovery from fee account.
Reading Recommendations
Based on age, class, past reading, teacher recommendation. Encourage genre diversity. Hooks for reading challenges.
Library Reports
Most-borrowed, dormant titles, defaulter list, member ageing, stock by subject, acquisitions YTD, fine collection.
Three things your school won't sweat anymore.
Annual stock verification of a 22,000-book library
RFID-scan in two days. Variance report generated. Lost books matched to last-borrower automatically.
A Class 7 student needs help finding sources for a history project
Searches the OPAC by topic from her app, reserves three books, picks them up the next morning.
Library committee reviews dormant titles
Books not borrowed in 24 months listed. Reading-club promotion or de-acquisition decided with data.
Library — questions answered.
Yes. aCloud integrates with HF and UHF RFID readers and tags used in school libraries. Books are tagged once; issue, return, renew and shelf-verification are all one-tap operations with offline-buffer support.
Yes. aCloud uses MARC21 and Dublin Core standards for cataloguing. Records can be imported from external bibliographic databases via Z39.50 or by ISBN lookup, and exported in MARC for inter-library exchange.
Yes. The OPAC is available on the student and parent apps as well as web. Students can search the full catalogue, see availability, reserve titles, view borrowing history and download permitted e-books — from anywhere.
Yes. NDLI federated search is available from within the aCloud OPAC, so students can access millions of additional digital resources alongside the school's own catalogue, using their existing aCloud credentials.