Spydus Library Management System

Spydus works across all devices, ensuring your staff can access resources and manage workflows beyond the building from their devices via a user-friendly interface. Patrons benefit from an engaging and easy to use app that increases adoption and discovery.

Join a transformative journey with Civica Spydus, a leading library management software shaped by those who know libraries best. Our roadmap, informed by real-world expertise, ensures your library evolves with innovative features that meet today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

Rising operational costs shouldn't slow your library down. Spydus automates workflows and streamlines processes, allowing you to allocate resources where they matter most and reduce admin burdens - so you can do more with less.

End-to-end control of all your library’s operations, physical collections, digital content, resources, and events from one intuitive library management platform. Manage everything effortlessly - whether it’s reporting, collaboration, or compliance - so your team can focus on creating exceptional experiences.

Every community is unique – Civica Spydus gives you the flexibility to serve yours in the most effective way. Our library management system is fully configurable to meet the needs of libraries of all types and sizes, adjusting content and services in real-time. Whether it’s expanding digital resources or creating new programming, your library can remain relevant, engaging, and impactful no matter the shift.

The Spydus discovery Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) ensures every interaction feels personal and meaningful. It allows access to both digital and physical items through a unified search experience. Once logged in, patrons receive tailored recommendations based on their borrowing history to discover more resources, receive real-time alerts, and manage their loans and requests independently.

Attract more visitors by creating vibrant community spaces and offering engaging programs. With built-in tools for events, book clubs, reading challenges, and gamification, your library becomes a hub of activity. Personalized recommendations and real-time alerts also encourage patrons to visit and discover, transforming occasional users into active participants. Spydus ensures that every interaction- whether online or in person, drives deeper engagement and increased foot traffic.

Give your patrons and staff the ability to engage with your library whenever and wherever they need it with mobile apps.

For patrons - Empower users to manage loans, reservations, and access eBooks or audiobooks from their phones. They can manage memberships, renew loans, and even scan bookshop ISBNs to check for availability at your library, ensuring constant engagement irrespective of location.

For staff - SpydusGO equips your team to work efficiently from any location. Staff can manage circulation, validate memberships, and track event attendance. This flexibility ensures seamless operations, better community service, and smoother workflows.

Spydus brings a new dimension to library access with AI-powered library catalog management. Revolutionize your library operations by automating cataloging, indexing, and data management. With AI-enhanced search tools, patrons can quickly locate books, documents, and archives - whether they’re on-site or browsing remotely. Highly personalized discovery is now just a click away, creating a seamless experience for both staff and users.

Gain actionable insights into borrower behavior, collection use, and facility operations with real-time, interactive dashboards, charts and easily exported reporting. Make informed, data-driven decisions with business intelligence tools that give you a clear picture of what works. From analyzing foot traffic to tracking event success, Spydus provides the insights you need to plan strategically and make an even greater impact.

Spydus evolves with your library, offering cloud-based solutions and highly configurable permissions that protect your sensitive data. Stay ahead of regulatory requirements effortlessly with built-in compliance. Spydus ensures your library’s operations are resilient, secure, and future proof, giving your team peace of mind as they focus on serving communities.

A Library Management System (LMS) simplifies and automates your library operations including cataloging, circulation process, user accounts and inventory.

With the right LMS in place, libraries can efficiently manage both physical and digital resources, allowing staff to focus more on community engagement and less on administration.

• Efficiency: Automates tasks, saves time

• Convenience: Offers self-service options for users

• Flexibility: Enables mobile and remote access to staff and patrons

• Accessibility: Improves user experience with easy search and access to resources

• Reporting: Provides data insights and analytics for informed decision-making.

Choose Civica Spydus to elevate your library operations. Streamline your workflows, reduce staff workload, and offer your community a more personalized and engaging library experience.

Key features of library management system include the following:

• Catalog Management: Efficiently organizes and manages records of books, e-resources, and other materials, making them easily searchable

• Circulation Control: Manages loans, returns, reservations, and holds, enabling staff manage inventory efficiently

• Account management: Handles user registration, borrower information, and account management, including loan history and fines

• Advanced search: Every LMS comes with OPAC that allows searches based on various fields like author, title, subject, keywords, and publication date, providing multiple ways to discover resources

• Reporting: LMS enables libraries to generate data-driven insights on various aspects of library operations, such as usage and circulation statistics, overdue fines, and user activity.

An ILS or Integrated Library System, is a comprehensive digital solution that helps you organize, track, and manage resources. Civica Spydus integrates everything - cataloging, user records, inventory, and more into one powerful system, making library operations highly efficient.

Our cloud-based library software is designed to meet the unique needs of libraries of all sizes—whether public, government, or academic. Spydus offers full configurability to support and enhance library services at every level.

A library automation system transforms traditional library operations into efficient, digital workflows. With Spydus, a fully configurable integrated library system (ILS), every aspect of library management - from cataloging to circulation, member engagement, and reporting—is streamlined within a unified platform:

Here’s how it works:

• Digitalize routine tasks - Converts repetitive tasks such as catalog updates, loan renewals, notifications - into automated processes, freeing your staff to focus on community engagement

• Unified platform - Centralizes all library functions, from cataloging and circulation to user engagement and reporting, within a single, intuitive interface

• AI-powered personalization - Uses AI to deliver personalized book recommendations and real-time alerts, enhancing the patron experience by connecting them to relevant resources effortlessly

• Cloud-based flexibility - Enables staff and patrons to access digital and physical collections anytime, anywhere, supporting a library experience that extends beyond physical walls.

• Data-driven insights - Provides real-time insights into library usage and resource allocation, empowering staff to make informed decisions that improve library efficiency and impact.

Imagine a library that knows what patrons want before they do! AI makes this possible. In public libraries, AI enables smarter catalog searches, automated recommendations, and predictive analytics to understand borrowing trends. With Spydus, AI doesn’t just improve library efficiency; it turns each visit into an engaging experience for every patron.