We'd like to thank the following companies for sponsoring the Libraries Connected Annual Seminar 2023 'Connecting Communities'

Axiell

Axiell provides software and services for Libraries, Archives and Museums. Our solutions help our community of customers to manage their collections, encourage reading, preserve cultural heritage, improve learning and increase engagement with the public.

Come and speak to us about your Library Management requirements and to see our modern cloud based LMS.

Working out of our UK offices in Nottingham and Manchester, our teams are local, accessible and have a personal approach.

Our business is all about ensuring the long-term sustainability of the sectors we serve. Our solutions help our customers to excel in an increasingly digital environment. We stay close to our customers to ensure we understand their changing needs and can adapt as a partner for now and the future.

Axiell provides cloud-based Library and Collections management systems for public libraries, specialist libraries, archives, and museums of all sizes. Our solutions help our customers to excel in an increasingly digital environment. We stay close to our customers to ensure we understand their changing needs and can adapt as a partner for now and the future.

Bibliotheca

For over 50 years, Bibliotheca has partnered with libraries to meet the needs of their communities worldwide.

Things are changing at lightning speed. It’s time to imagine what a library can do—what a library can be—today and tomorrow.

Libraries are competing with the best in consumer technologies and can’t afford to stick with the status quo. At Bibliotheca, we aren’t just keeping up with the times, we’re inventing the future.

Through integrated technology we reimagine how libraries function, to inspire and delight all kinds of people, wherever they are: at home, on the move, or within the library walls.

Bibliotheca works with 30,000 libraries around the globe to make the library experience—physical and digital—seamless, intuitive, and inclusive. We work wonders for library staff too.

As degreed librarians and avid library users, we understand not only the unique management challenges that libraries face, but also what the future of library service will demand.

Bolinda

Bolinda is a world-leading audiobook and technology company. We publish the greatest books you’ll ever hear and are the creators of BorrowBox, your library in one app.

As publishers, we are unsurpassed experts in the audiobook category, combining brilliant authors, talented narrators and superb production to create mind-blowing audio experiences.

As technology providers, we go where no library has gone before with BorrowBox. A ground-breaking digital content solution, BorrowBox instantly brings the world's best titles to libraries’ digital shelves.

Our mission is to inspire people to live their best lives through the power of storytelling.Anywhere, everywhere: we never stop.

D-Tech International Ltd

Launched in 2002, D-Tech International Ltd is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of high performance technology products and services for public space locations in the UK and overseas. Our success has been built in the library sector but in recent years we have seen an increase in cross-sector demand for our EM, RF, RFIQ and RFID technologies for tracking, managing, protecting and forecasting demand.

We design, manufacture and install RFID, EM, RF and RFIQ Security, self-service & stock inventory, book vending, library management software including smart device apps, laptop self- service lockers and thermal imaging people counters, earning a reputation along the way as creative solution providers and forward thinking developers of new products to meet the needs of rapidly changing consumer demands.

Excellent customer service with an emphasis on direct contact and support has been crucial to our success.

EBSCO

EBSCO offers high-quality information resources and technology solutions to help libraries build and manage their collections, meet their patron’s information needs, promote lifelong learning, and transform lives.  Providing access to books, eBooks, journals, magazines, and various reference resources alongside user-friendly search platforms, a managed open-source library

system (FOLIO) and our linked-data technology solution (Bibliograph) to transform the visibility of library catalogues on the web, EBSCO is ideally placed to support community libraries and we are proud to support the Libraries Connected Annual Seminar 2023.

Innovative, a Clarivate company

Innovative, a Clarivate company, provides leading technology solutions and services that empower libraries and enrich their users worldwide. Innovative offers a comprehensive portfolio of library automation products, serving academic, public, national, corporate and special libraries and consortia. Innovative serves thousands of libraries in 66 countries.

Insight Media

Insight Media is a leading library technology partner in the UK for the provision of PC booking, print management, Wi-Fi printing, Wi-Fi authentication, and kiosk software services.

Our products integrate with all the UK Library Management Systems as well the main RFID self-service kiosk providers, enabling us to provide a seamless experience for your library visitors.

We have extensive experience in the public sector and support customers to provide IT and self-service solutions. We are continuously monitoring customer and market demands and working to deliver new and improved solutions, offering customers a wider range of library services and operational efficiencies.

Our solutions are all provided with a comprehensive installation and training programme, together with first-class ongoing support services.

Contact us to find out more.

Tel: 0844 335 6350

Email: info@insight-media.co.uk Website: www.insight-media.co.uk

Kajima Community

Kajima Community provides the antidote to ineffective manual room hire processes. Old-fashioned booking processes require hirers to call or email various libraries before starting a conversation that may or may not lead to a paid booking. The outcomes are clear – low awareness of available space leading to low usage and sub-optimal income, and inefficient processes that drain resources and reduce profitability.

BookingsPlus is an off-the-shelf configurable white-label booking platform that digitally transforms how library services hire space. Imagine a Booking.com platform for your libraries – a single location for prospective hirers to find, virtually tour, check availability, book and pay for facilities, with administrators retaining control over how hirers book and which bookings they accept.

By applying the same technology modern society uses to book holidays and view houses, library services can maximise visibility of hireable space – leading to increased usage, income and social value – and streamline processes to achieve time and cost savings.

We look forward to meeting the Libraries Connected community and discussing your commercialisation objectives.

Lorensbergs

Lorensbergs works closely with libraries to improve access to services and resources. Our market-leading solution, netloan PC booking provides a comprehensive session management system for greater control and accessibility to library PCs, together with self-service print payment and release. Netloan Wi-Fi print gives library users the opportunity to print from their smartphones, tablets and laptops in the library and from home.

The netloan portfolio gives you the technology and data to manage resources with ease. With our integrated solutions, library policies and administration can be managed holistically. Administrative tasks are achieved with centralised web-based access, allowing library staff greater freedom to ensure their libraries operate smoothly and efficiently.

Netloan integration on self-service payment kiosks achieves a number of further benefits. It provides library users with the ability to make PC bookings and self-service print or PC payments at the same point as carrying out book-related transactions on Bibliotheca kiosks. This relieves pressure on staff and can even support longer opening hours. It also helps save on valuable floorspace in the library.

Lyngsoe Systems

Lyngsoe Systems has been a world leader in the field of cutting-edge electronic logistics control for over 40 years and is leading within the radio frequencies identification (RFID) technology. We are devoted to helping libraries transform by supporting them to save time on material handling with smart library solutions. We are experts and trusted by libraries in providing automated material handling solutions, self-service equipment, and intelligent material management systems. Our solutions are standards compliant as well as practical, affordable, and innovative. We have our own network of engineers and solution experts. With a proven record of accomplishment with 20,000 installations in over 60 countries, the Lyngsoe Systems team demonstrate extensive experience in customer process, solution design, software development, integration, service, and maintenance. Our ambition is to always offer a market-leading range of products fulfilling our guiding star: “Working for Smarter Libraries”.

To find out more, visit www.lyngsoesystems.com

Patron Point

Patron Point is a fully-featured marketing automation platform that helps libraries really drive their digital marketing and attract, onboard, inform, engage and retain library customers through targeted marketing and automated engagement.

We bring all your data together by connecting to your LMS and a wide range of third party services such as your eBook platforms, eDatabases, events registration systems and many others to help you segment your audience based on your data allowing you to not only automate some of your library email marketing communications, but to make sure the messages are highly targeted, personalized and relevant.

Our Proven Programs allow you to hit the ground running, with proven use cases that have been shown to engage library customers around the world in a wide variety of ways.

PTFS Europe

At PTFS Europe we’ve been working with open source software since 2007 – software developed by online communities for free use by all.

Like libraries, open source is for everyone. We develop our products and services with the goal of making this technology easy; to help and enable library users and ultimately free libraries to do the things they do best. The reason so many people like working with us is that we solve problems, we don’t sell software. We listen, find solutions and commit to deliver these solutions for our customers as part of our complete managed service and support package. As an ISO27001 accredited company, you can rely on the quality and integrity of the support we’re providing to over 120 organisations (and counting). To find out more send us a message at: info@ptfs-europe.com or visit our website: https://www.ptfs-europe.com/about/

SirsiDynix

SirsiDynix provides innovative technology solutions to library authorities across the UK and globally. Come and talk to us about our latest developments to help drive social value and customer engagement. Our aim is to help our libraries succeed in a constantly evolving digital world.

SOLUS

SOLUS is the world’s #1 Library App provider for public libraries and growing in academics; with SOLUS built Library Apps now in use in almost 8,000 locations globally and growing rapidly. The Library App supports 15 different ILS platforms using APIs and web services and is available in 40 languages. SOLUS has expanded its product suite to include Events & Room Bookings with its eb#1 product and to Library Web Discovery with the LUCi Discovery platform.

The Design Concept

“The library of today is not just a collection of books or a place to study - it is a space for multicultural contacts, digital enlightenment, creation, imagination and discovery.

Embracing all these aspirations, we have evolved into a dynamic provider of total design solutions to libraries and other public spaces - working hard to create tomorrow’s library, today.

Library Design is what defines us as a company.

We work with the library as a space in which we add ideas, experience, competence, and specialist products.”

Daniela Hislop – Director