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- Industry: Retail
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great for inventory
Reviewed on 2021/07/22
Pros
Inventory of books. It is easy to use and a great interface.
Cons
I am happy with the software. I wouldn't change anything.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simple Little Library System!
Reviewed on 2019/08/01
This has has been a fantastic experience especially when there is no dedicated librarian. The kids...
This has has been a fantastic experience especially when there is no dedicated librarian. The kids love it as they can browse for, return and reserve books on their IPads anywhere in the school.
Pros
Simplicity is the keyword here. This is the simplest library system I have used. Easy to setup, easy to configure and easy to manage. We were looking a flexible system that adapts to the needs of our school and we found it.
Cons
It's very hard to find any of these except sometimes some books ISBN numbers are not in the catalogues but a quick email or phone call to support and they always have a solution at hand.
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SoutronReasons for Choosing Simple Little Library System
Support was poor, the system was old fashioned and cumbersome to use. It was frustrating doing the basic things and required a dedicated librarian.Reasons for Switching to Simple Little Library System
The staff were very responsive, helpful and helped with exporting catalogues from the old system and worked hard to resolve issues.Response from Bailey Solutions
Thank you Philip for sharing your fantastic review! We're delighted it's working well for you - that's our mission!
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Simple Little Library System
Reviewed on 2019/07/18
SLLS has brought lots of new challenges but with a great support team, each issue has been dealt...
SLLS has brought lots of new challenges but with a great support team, each issue has been dealt with efficiently and as quickly as possible. After a few initial teething problems we appreciate how it's changed how the library operates (for the better)
Pros
Autocataloguing! And the ability to modify the way it looks by adding and removing things to the dashboard
Cons
No reservations or inter library loans system. There's also lots of functions that we never use so it can be a bit overwhelming to start with
Response from Bailey Solutions
Hi Sonia,
Thank for your very positive review and we are delighted that it has changed for the better how your library operates.
I just thought I'd let you know that Simple Little Library System does have reservations functionality. I will ask support to help you find it.
Our other library system KnowAll Matrix is more suited to secondary schools and further education colleges as this has the functionality you are looking for with respect to more sophisticated loans and fines management. Also inter-library loans will be added to KnowAll Matrix in 2020.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Value, Easy to Use, Fantastic Customer Service
Reviewed on 2019/10/07
Fantastic customer service, quick responses, always a pleasure to interact with staff. System is...
Fantastic customer service, quick responses, always a pleasure to interact with staff. System is user-friendly and intuitive, very easy to use and learn but provides a great degree of functionality and operability.
Pros
Very easy to use, hassle-free interaction with responsive, informed, friendly customer support, suits needs of the library perfectly, good degree of reportage functionality and right level of student engagement capability for our needs. Much less expensive than closest competitors but has full range of capability and functionality they offer.
Cons
Only slight con I've identified so far is occassional mis-scans on zero-lead barcodes, more likely an issue with the hand-scanner than the system though.
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Oliver v5Reasons for Switching to Simple Little Library System
The other market offerings were also appealing and of excellent quality but the price of SLLS was the deciding factor, offered the best value for money on our budget without much compromise on functionality.Response from Bailey Solutions
Hi Robin,
Thanks for the great review !! It's what we aim to do so it's lovely to receive confirmation that we're on track.
- Industry: Libraries
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Thoughts on our first year of using SSLS
Reviewed on 2021/08/09
We have found SSLS to be effective, intuitive and attractive. we started from scratch with a...
We have found SSLS to be effective, intuitive and attractive. we started from scratch with a vanilla production environment and in 11 months had catalogued enough books to open to the public (albeit on a Click and Collect basis from May 2021 until July 2021. We now have almost 3,000 books in our catalogue,
42 volunteers and 325 members. We could not have done this without SSLS and the help and support from the Bailey's team who have been fantastic. Many thanks to them!
Pros
We had no prior system in place - our community library has been set up from scratch. We found that SSLS was the best match to our system requirements document on paper and subsequently when we undertook a live trial. Three librarians thoroughly tested the system and found it to be surprisingly sophisticated for something that was being promoted as 'simple'. As we were starting from scratch, we found the system to be intuitive and the Help pages useful. We also appreciated the support from Bailey's team that we received.
Importantly, we felt that Bailey's values were aligned with our own. It felt like a comfortable fit.
Cons
Thankfully, we weren't undergoing a migration to SSLS so I can't comment on that aspect. There are no huge issues about the software that cause us concern. As system librarian, I have a couple of niggles which I have already mentioned. Firstly, the work-around needed for us to run a click and collect service (reservations of books available in the library). The work-flow could be improved.
Secondly, the reporting does not allow me to report upon most reserved and most issued (popular) books to inform our collection development planning. These reports would also help in the reports I present to our Trustees to demonstrate the impact of our library and requests for increasing internal funding of the book fund or one-off pump-priming of under resourced areas. Reports that focus on impact would also be helpful in our library promotion and when writing bids from external funding bodies as we are wholly dependent on donations whether financial or in book form.
Response from Bailey Solutions
Thank you for your fab 5-star review Lindsey! So pleased you find our system intuitive and feature-rich. We'll look into improving the reservation workflow and the impact reports in SLLS.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Record and Go
Reviewed on 2019/08/06
My overall experience is very positive. My use of SLLS is a straight forward law library application...
My overall experience is very positive. My use of SLLS is a straight forward law library application. I would say that I most appreciate the Finance section. I like to be able to run a monthly check and compare it to the accounts department printout.
Pros
As in the words of a - very old - shampoo add, SLLS is a very simple use and go product. The dashboard page contains all the hints, not only on instant access to the page I use most - serials quick Check in - but also where I might want to spend some time on Library admin.
Alerts for forgotten details, overdue parts and overdue orders, they are there to help me.
Cons
Nothing really. I find that if I have a problem, the technical help is available immediately.
Response from Bailey Solutions
I like it! "Use and go!" Thank you Julie very positive review. We aim to give you the tools you need right on the Dashboard so you don't have to go digging for them.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy system for a non-cataloguer
Reviewed on 2021/08/03
Pros
I'm the only person in our library and archives department and I had no prior cataloguing experience so I was a little nervous about taking on cataloguing duties, but the system made it really easy. Everything is super intuitive and organized in a logical, easy-to-use way.
Cons
Sometimes it can be a tiny bit glitchy in terms of little things, like pages loading and things like that! I'm hoping some of the kinks will get worked out as the system gets updated (which does happen reasonably frequently).
Response from Bailey Solutions
Ashlynn, Thank you very much for your five star review! I am so pleased that as a non-cataloguer you find the system easy to use. That is our goal! If you haven't done so already, let us know directly of any little glitches and we'll get them sorted for you.
All the best,
Penny
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Library Management System by Bailey review
Reviewed on 2019/08/08
Pros
User friendly software without complex or expensive training coupled with excellent customer service.
Cons
The name and the branding. i think it devalues the product.
Response from Bailey Solutions
Thank you for your review and we're delighted that you find the product user-friendly and not complex.
Regarding the branding you wouldn't want a complicated library system - would you? So we called it 'simple'. Trust me, as a Chartered Librarian I'm not belittling your job! We're just trying to free you up to help your users and all the other things you need to do.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Gilbert Inglefield
Reviewed on 2019/08/08
We moved from a large, corporate-driven management system, focused on selling you further products....
We moved from a large, corporate-driven management system, focused on selling you further products.
The difference in SLLS is having very similar product without the commercialism and the cost saving benefits
Pros
It's simplicity, with the ability to carry out tasks in a straightforward, logical way.
Cons
One off larger, more complex tasks, for example an audit, are not always easy to work out the most effective way to do it.
Response from Bailey Solutions
Rachel, we're so pleased that you are finding it easy to carry out tasks in a straightforward way. If you can give us some feedback on how we can improve the software to manage audits we'd like to build this into a future release.Or send us any other ideas you have.
- Industry: Farming
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Product, excellent customer service
Reviewed on 2019/07/18
I previously had Koha and would not recommend this to anyone. So I was looking for a simple system,...
I previously had Koha and would not recommend this to anyone. So I was looking for a simple system, cost effective, customer service and modern. I then found this one. It is very easy to use, modern, shows what has been catalogued, price, account manager so you if have any issues you can go to them. With SLLS, this is perfect, don't have any problems with it. Its has alot information like reporting and other features, no technical jargon that you cant understand. They tailor to your needs and make sure everything is perfect for you. Customer service and support is excellent. Training is good as well. The videos are excellent. I certainly recommend this software to any organisation who has a library. I have used many in my time, this one certainly reaches the top of my list.
Pros
Look, tailored to your organisations needs
easier to use
simple to use
shows what has just been catalogued
Cons
I haven't encountered any problems. There isn't anything least i have issues with.
Response from Bailey Solutions
Thank you Maya for your wonderful review. We are delighted that you enjoy using Simple Little Library System and prefer it to other systems you have used. We are always ready to hear your suggestions for improvements we can make to the software.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
SLLS Review
Reviewed on 2021/08/17
Great for budgets, easier for users to access
Great for budgets, easier for users to access
Pros
Easy to use. Good features. Excellent value for money. Very good customer service team
Cons
I don't know on any features that I want added
