LibraryAId Features

Library Management

Easily upload, organize, and manage your school's library catalog in one convenient place.

• Simple catalog upload process
• Automatic book categorization by genre, reading level, and themes
• Track book availability and popularity
• Generate usage reports and insights

Complete Library Management System

Professional-grade library cataloguing that rivals expensive systems like Follett Destiny and Accessit. QR + barcode scanning, three organization systems, automated reporting, and seamless integration with your existing book collection. Used by individual schools and district-wide rollouts across multiple sites — contact us for district pricing.

• Scanning: QR codes + barcode support (ISBN & custom barcodes)
• Organization: Dewey Decimal, Genre-based, or keep existing references
• Checkout System: Student checkout/checkin with automated due dates
• Reservation Queue: Students join a waitlist when books are checked out — notified automatically when their copy is ready
• Reporting: 5 comprehensive reports (Most Borrowed, Overdue, Student History, etc.)
• Automation: Overdue email alerts, bulk CSV operations
• Label Printing: QR labels + spine labels in multiple formats
• Student Integration: Borrowing history in student portals
• Migration Support: Import existing barcodes from other systems

Smart Purchase Recommendations

AI-powered collection development that tells you exactly what to buy. Checks your library against 1,300+ award-winning and curated books, analyses genre gaps, and recommends specific titles you don't already own.

• Curated List Gaps: Carnegie, Waterstones, Blue Peter, and more — see what's missing with direct buy links
• Genre Gap Analysis: RAG chart of 21 genres against realistic targets scaled to your library size
• AI Recommendations: Claude analyses your gaps and recommends books tailored to your school
• Already-owned check: AI never recommends books or series you already have
• International school aware: Recommendations adapted to your school's context

Points & Rewards System

Motivate students with an engaging points system and rewards that encourage consistent reading habits.

• Points for completing books and comprehension quizzes
• Customizable genre-specific reward shops
• Badges and achievements for reading milestones
• Leaderboards to foster friendly competition

Progress Tracking & Analytics

Comprehensive analytics to track reading progress, comprehension, and skill development over time.

• Individual student progress dashboards
• Class and school-wide analytics
• Reading diversity tracking across 21 genres
• Comprehension assessment and improvement metrics

Reading Level Guidance

We provide estimated reading levels for books, including ATOS scores, Lexile levels, and reading ages to help match students with appropriate materials.

• AI-estimated reading levels clearly labeled as such
• Reading level matches based on student abilities
• Source attribution for all reading metrics
• Validation to ensure reading levels are reasonable

AI-generated reading levels are estimates only. For critical educational decisions, please verify with official sources such as the publishers of ATOS scores (Renaissance Learning) or Lexile measures (MetaMetrics).

Reading Level Check

An adaptive one-time assessment across vocabulary, sentence completion, and comprehension. Establishes a reliable reading age baseline for each student.

• 13 reading age bands (6.0–12.0 years)
• Adapts in real time — 2 correct moves up, 2 wrong moves down
• Confidence scoring: High, Medium, or Low
• Assign to whole class in one click
• Results visible to teachers only — never shown to students or parents

VIPERS Comprehension Tracking

Every quiz a student completes contributes to a rolling comprehension profile across six key reading skills.

• Six categories: Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise
• Rolling averages update automatically after every quiz
• Class-wide weak area identification for targeted teaching
• Individual student breakdown with visual progress bars
• Reading level estimate derived from quiz performance

Blended Reading Level

LibraryAid combines standardized assessment results with ongoing comprehension quiz performance to create a continuously updated reading level for each student.

• Weighted blend: 60% initial assessment + 40% quiz performance
• Updates automatically as students complete more quizzes
• Drives book recommendations for precisely matched reading
• Three data points shown side-by-side in teacher dashboard

Flexible Reading Level Sources

Teachers stay in control. Choose whether LibraryAid's blended level or your own external assessment results drive book recommendations.

• Blended Mode: standardized assessment + ongoing comprehension quizzes
• Manual Mode: enter GL Assessment, PIRA, or any external result
• Set preference for whole class in one go
• Switch between sources at any time
• Transparent logging shows which source is being used

Data Protection

We take data privacy seriously, implementing robust security measures to protect all user information.

• End-to-end encryption for sensitive data
• Secure user authentication
• Regular security audits and updates

COPPA Compliance

LibraryAid is fully compliant with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

• Age-appropriate content and features
• Parental consent mechanisms
• Limited data collection from young users