Welcome to LibraryAId

Library Management & Cataloguing

A professional-grade library management system built for school librarians — replacing expensive platforms like Follett Destiny and Accessit at a fraction of the cost.

• 📷 QR code & barcode scanning — scan books in and out in seconds, inventory automatically updates
• 📚 Three cataloguing systems — Dewey Decimal, genre-based, or keep your existing references
• ⏰ Overdue tracking & automated alerts — never chase a book manually again
• 🔔 Reservation queue — students join a waitlist when a book is checked out and are notified automatically when their copy is ready
• 📊 Circulation reports — Most Borrowed, Overdue, Student History and more in plain English
• 🔍 Smart Purchase Recommendations — checks your catalogue against 1,150+ award-winning titles (Carnegie, Waterstones, Newbery, Caldecott, UKLA) and tells you exactly what's missing with direct buy links
• 🌍 Hidden Gems Discovery — surfaces brilliant books already on your shelves that children haven't found yet
• 👥 Multiple staff scanning simultaneously — no conflicts, everything backed up in real time

Personalised Book Matching

Every child gets up to 100 personalised book recommendations drawn from your existing catalogue — matched to the child in front of you, not a generic external list.

• 📖 30+ matching factors — reading level, interests, favourite authors, curriculum topics, reading history and more
• 🎯 Two reading lists per child — Challenge Reading (at or above level) and Reading for Pleasure (below level, matching favourite genres)
• ⭐ Award-winning quality — Carnegie Medal winners, Waterstones Prize shortlists, UKLA Book Awards and BooksForTopics favourites all prioritised
• 📚 Series intelligence — automatically detects when a student is mid-series and suggests the next book at the perfect moment
• 🌍 International school aware — multilingual library filtering ensures recommendations are always in the right language
• 🛡️ Content safeguarding — a gifted Year 3 reader who reads at age 12 level is still 8 years old; recommendations are always age-appropriate for the child, not just their reading ability
• 🔄 Continuously learning — every rating, review and completed book refines future recommendations

Reading Community

Reading is more powerful when it's shared. LibraryAid builds a living reading community within your school — where children, teachers and parents all play a part in each other's reading journeys.

• ✍️ Student book reviews — children write reviews of every book they finish; teacher-verified before they appear to classmates, then fed directly into recommendations so one child's discovery becomes the whole school's
• 🔒 Closed community — your school only; no external readers, no outside reviews, no strangers
• 📈 Trending in Our Library — a live feed of the most-read and most-loved books in your school right now, sparking curiosity and conversation
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent recommendations — parents can suggest books they've read at home, feeding into the recommendation engine and keeping reading connected across school and home
• 📱 Mobile app for iOS & Android — students and parents can access their reading dashboards, reviews and recommendations on the go
• 👩‍🏫 Teacher curated lists — teachers add reading lists that integrate with personalised recommendations, ensuring curriculum connection
• 🏆 Genre leaderboards — friendly competition across genres encourages breadth of reading, not just volume
• 🌟 Hidden gems surface naturally — a wonderful book that sat undiscovered on your shelves gets found by one child and recommended to twenty more

Comprehension & Rewards

LibraryAid's comprehension system is built on the VIPERS framework — but designed so that assessment feels like play, not pressure.

• 📝 30 AI-generated VIPERS questions per book — no pre-approved list, no gaps; every book in your library is covered the moment it's catalogued, with easy → medium → hard progression
• 🎮 Bookworm Runner — a Mario-style platform game unlocked by correct answers; the game loop is deliberate — reward is tied to getting the answer right, not skipping through
• 🐛 The genre points system — when a child reads and reviews a Fantasy book, they earn Fantasy points; when they read a Science book, they earn Science points. Those genre points unlock worm accessories specific to that genre — wands for Fantasy, lab coats for Science, and so on across all 21 genres. The worm becomes a visual record of how broadly a child reads
• ✍️ Reviews also earn genre points — writing a review of a book earns points in that book's genre, rewarding engagement not just completion
• 🏅 Badges and achievements — milestones celebrated across reading volume, genre exploration and comprehension improvement
• 🏆 Leaderboards — multiple pathways so breadth of reading is rewarded alongside volume; no child is permanently at the bottom

Gamification doesn't make readers. Reading for pleasure does that. But the right rewards keep a reluctant reader in the chair long enough to find the book that changes everything.

Analytics & Tracking

LibraryAid gives teachers and librarians the data they need to coach every reader — not just the ones who are struggling.

• 📏 Blended reading level — combines initial placement assessment (60%) with ongoing quiz performance (40%) for a continuously updated, accurate reading level per child; never a single fixed score
• ✏️ Flexible level sources — use LibraryAid's blended level or enter external results (GL Assessment, PIRA) at any time; switch between them per student or per class
• 📊 VIPERS dashboard — see comprehension scores across all six skills (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) in real time for every student
• 🎯 Class-wide weak area identification — spot which comprehension skills need targeted teaching across the whole class
• 📚 Reading diversity tracking — monitor genre breadth across 21 genres; identify children stuck in one genre and nudge them toward something new
• 🎓 Challenge Reading vs Reading for Pleasure — recommendations automatically split so every child has books that stretch them and books they can enjoy freely
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent portal — parents see their child's reading progress, recommendations and achievements, keeping reading connected between school and home
• 🔒 Reading levels never shown to students — data is for teachers and parents only; children see encouragement, not labels