Simple Little Library System
About Simple Little Library System
Our library software packages are designed for small to medium libraries like elementary school libraries, legal libraries, business libraries, church libraries, community libraries, prison libraries, health libraries, architect libraries, individual collectors and more.
Starting with our AutoCat tool, you can catalog your collection quickly and add images for easy recognition.
If you lend your items, we have an easy check-out check-in tool for you or your borrowers.
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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.
Simple Little Library System FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Simple Little Library System.Q. What type of pricing plans does Simple Little Library System offer?
Simple Little Library System offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$49.20/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
From $47.50 per month
Q. Who are the typical users of Simple Little Library System?
Simple Little Library System has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Simple Little Library System support?
Simple Little Library System supports the following languages:
English, German
Q. Does Simple Little Library System support mobile devices?
Simple Little Library System supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Simple Little Library System integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Simple Little Library System has
Q. What level of support does Simple Little Library System offer?
Simple Little Library System offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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