L4U Library Software
The award winning L4U™ integrated Library management software has been serving K-12 schools for 25 years and is installed in over 2,700 School Libraries in North America and internationally in China, Japan, Africa and Europe. Our mission of “Providing superior library management software that is easy to use, powerful, innovative and responsive to our customers' needs” has made us an industry leader. Our strong Customer focus ensures we remain so.

L4U
With its web based iPAC and intuitive ‘Discovery’ interface, L4U is friendly and engaging for Patrons of all ages. L4U’s web based iPAC extends your Library right into the Students’ homes to maximize accessibility and parental engagement. L4U also puts your school crest on every screen and enables the Student to choose an English, French or Spanish interface. L4U was designed specifically for schools and makes it easy for your Students to find resources, easy for your Teachers to manage their classes and easy for the Librarian to manage the collection. It will even manage textbooks, AV equipment, periodicals, media, and eResources!

And L4U’s integrated design does it all without costly add-on modules:

• Books
• Periodicals
• Textbooks
• eBooks & eResources of all formats
• Media
• AV Equipment
• Automatic book cover images
• Automatic MARC records via CheckMARC
• Federated search
• English, French and Spanish iPAC interfaces
• Built in reports, labels, barcodes and even Patron Library Card printing
• Social network sharing & Patron Ratings
• Automated import of Patron data from your Student Information System

With a central server shared by all sites and a web browser interface for end users, L4U provides a reliable, industry standard and easy-to-support platform your IT department will appreciate too. L4U is Library Management Made Easy!

Benefits of L4U for Patrons:

• 10 different iPAC interface ‘skins’ to engage Students of all ages
• English, French and Spanish iPAC interfaces
• Spell check and spell suggestions
• Similar Author suggestions
• Phonetic searching
• Advanced Boolean searching
• Visual searching
• Social network sharing
• Patrons can rate collection items
• Web access to the Library from anywhere
• Patrons can easily customize interface
• Single ‘Discovery’ interface to search all resources including subscription databases
• Social network sharing with a single click

Benefits of L4U for Librarians & Administrators:

• Integrated Library management for all types of resources: books, periodicals, textbooks, eBooks & eResources of all formats, media, AV Equipment
• automatic MARC records in seconds via CheckMARC
• automatic book cover images
• Automatic import of Patron data from eSchoolPLUS
• flexible location management allows gives each Librarian the control and flexibility she needs
• central or site based cataloging
• web based administration from an unlimited number of workstations
• Student self check-out
• Integrated back-up utility
• Customizable access levels provide both control and flexibility