Loading…Start with the spreadsheet you already keep and a sheet of ordinary labels. Catalogue your titles, give every physical copy a permanent accession number, print the barcodes on your own printer, and open a desk where issuing a book takes seconds.
Not because librarians resist it. Because almost every quote an institution receives starts with hardware it cannot justify for one room.
The first quote arrives with an RFID gate attached, so the project is postponed to next year, every year.
The accession register is a bound book, so the only way to know whether a title is on the shelf is to walk to the shelf.
A book goes out against a slip of paper, the slip is mislaid, and nobody can say who has it.
Overdues surface when somebody happens to leaf back through the register, which is usually in Chaitra.
Fines are collected in the library and recorded somewhere the accounts office never sees.
A title is a record. A copy is a thing on a shelf. Keeping those two apart is what makes the rest of it work.
One catalogue record per title, and a separate row for every physical copy. Three copies of the same book are three things that can be issued, lost or withdrawn independently, which a single stock number can never represent.
Bring the collection in from the spreadsheet you already keep. Rows are validated and shown back to you with the problems flagged before anything is written, the same staged import the rest of the platform uses.
NepEdu generates the labels and lays them out on ordinary sheet paper for an ordinary printer. The barcode carries the accession number from your register rather than a database id, so the sticker still means something outside the software.
Scan the book and the borrower, or search for either by name, and the loan opens. Returning is one action. A copy can only be on one open loan at a time, and that is enforced by the database rather than by the person at the desk.
How many books, for how long, and how many renewals, set per borrower type and per grade. A young student, an adult learner and a teacher borrowing a reference volume are genuinely different loans, so they are configured as different loans.
If you fine at all, and many do not, the charge posts into the same fee ledger as everything else instead of a cash box in the library. Fines are off by default, a person decides when one is raised, and staff are never invoiced.
This is the whole rollout. There is no step in it that needs a supplier visit.
Put the collection in a spreadsheet: title, author, and how many copies of each.
Import it as a dry run. Every problem is flagged and shown back to you before a single row is written.
NepEdu gives each copy a permanent accession number and generates its barcode.
Print the label sheets on ordinary paper and stick them into the books.
Open the desk. Use an inexpensive USB scanner, the camera in the app, or skip scanning entirely and pick the book from the catalogue by hand.
Show us how your institution works today, registers, spreadsheets or another system, and we will show you what moving across actually looks like. No pressure, and a straight answer on price.