Community Engagement
Our purpose is to bring enrichment and foster engagement within, and between Libraries and their broader communities.
We bring content and discover tools to enable libraries to provide patrons with dynamic and vibrant environments acting as local portals to the wider world, enriched by reading, learning, and inspired by information and ideas.
Accelerated Circulation Plan
The Smarter Way To Keep Up With Demand
James Bennett’s Accelerated Circulation Plan is an end-to-end solution which boosts circulation by meeting demand when it is at its peak; then when demand drops you return the books, freeing up staff and resources.
Features:
- Popular titles available to on release.
- ACP is priced as a subscription model to drive down ‘cost-per-circulation’ and mostly pre-paid to help reduce the number of invoices to process.
- Keep books for 5-6 months, or until demand drops, then simply return to us.
Benefits:
- MAXIMISE circulation and MEET demand.
- MINIMISE waiting time and hold queues.
- ACP delivers demonstrated substantial return on investment.
- Increased staff and patron engagement across entire collection.
- Sustainably remove copies from collection.
Community Collection Manager
The Complete Solution for your Community
The Community Collection Manager (CCM) works like a visual marketing tool for your library, delivering a web-based engagement module that fully integrates with your Library’s Management System.
Features:
- Web-based application launched from your council or OPAC website.
- Pre-published publisher and media highlight titles.
- True patron authentication
- Live title availability check on your OPAC before placing reservations or requests.
- Reservation hold service direct to OPAC with patron barcode.
- Patron order carts.
- All-in-One request and reservation management, delivering total control over.
Benefits:
- Greater community engagement.
- Your patrons become part of the decision making process.
- Visual marketing tool for your library.
- Quicker search and request process for your staff and your community.