Simple Little Library System Reviews

Great for inventory

Pros:

Inventory of books. It is easy to use and a great interface.

Cons:

I am happy with the software. I wouldn't change anything.

Simple Little Library System!

Comments: This has has been a fantastic experience especially when there is no dedicated librarian. The kids love it as they can browse for, return and reserve books on their IPads anywhere in the school.

Pros:

Simplicity is the keyword here. This is the simplest library system I have used. Easy to setup, easy to configure and easy to manage. We were looking a flexible system that adapts to the needs of our school and we found it.

Cons:

It's very hard to find any of these except sometimes some books ISBN numbers are not in the catalogues but a quick email or phone call to support and they always have a solution at hand.

Simple Little Library System

Comments: SLLS has brought lots of new challenges but with a great support team, each issue has been dealt with efficiently and as quickly as possible. After a few initial teething problems we appreciate how it's changed how the library operates (for the better)

Pros:

Autocataloguing! And the ability to modify the way it looks by adding and removing things to the dashboard

Cons:

No reservations or inter library loans system. There's also lots of functions that we never use so it can be a bit overwhelming to start with

Great Value, Easy to Use, Fantastic Customer Service

Comments: Fantastic customer service, quick responses, always a pleasure to interact with staff. System is user-friendly and intuitive, very easy to use and learn but provides a great degree of functionality and operability.

Pros:

Very easy to use, hassle-free interaction with responsive, informed, friendly customer support, suits needs of the library perfectly, good degree of reportage functionality and right level of student engagement capability for our needs. Much less expensive than closest competitors but has full range of capability and functionality they offer.

Cons:

Only slight con I've identified so far is occassional mis-scans on zero-lead barcodes, more likely an issue with the hand-scanner than the system though.

Thoughts on our first year of using SSLS

Comments: We have found SSLS to be effective, intuitive and attractive. we started from scratch with a vanilla production environment and in 11 months had catalogued enough books to open to the public (albeit on a Click and Collect basis from May 2021 until July 2021. We now have almost 3,000 books in our catalogue,
42 volunteers and 325 members. We could not have done this without SSLS and the help and support from the Bailey's team who have been fantastic. Many thanks to them!

Pros:

We had no prior system in place - our community library has been set up from scratch. We found that SSLS was the best match to our system requirements document on paper and subsequently when we undertook a live trial. Three librarians thoroughly tested the system and found it to be surprisingly sophisticated for something that was being promoted as 'simple'. As we were starting from scratch, we found the system to be intuitive and the Help pages useful. We also appreciated the support from Bailey's team that we received. Importantly, we felt that Bailey's values were aligned with our own. It felt like a comfortable fit.

Cons:

Thankfully, we weren't undergoing a migration to SSLS so I can't comment on that aspect. There are no huge issues about the software that cause us concern. As system librarian, I have a couple of niggles which I have already mentioned. Firstly, the work-around needed for us to run a click and collect service (reservations of books available in the library). The work-flow could be improved. Secondly, the reporting does not allow me to report upon most reserved and most issued (popular) books to inform our collection development planning. These reports would also help in the reports I present to our Trustees to demonstrate the impact of our library and requests for increasing internal funding of the book fund or one-off pump-priming of under resourced areas. Reports that focus on impact would also be helpful in our library promotion and when writing bids from external funding bodies as we are wholly dependent on donations whether financial or in book form.

Record and Go

Comments: My overall experience is very positive. My use of SLLS is a straight forward law library application. I would say that I most appreciate the Finance section. I like to be able to run a monthly check and compare it to the accounts department printout.

Pros:

As in the words of a - very old - shampoo add, SLLS is a very simple use and go product. The dashboard page contains all the hints, not only on instant access to the page I use most - serials quick Check in - but also where I might want to spend some time on Library admin. Alerts for forgotten details, overdue parts and overdue orders, they are there to help me.

Cons:

Nothing really. I find that if I have a problem, the technical help is available immediately.

Easy system for a non-cataloguer

Pros:

I'm the only person in our library and archives department and I had no prior cataloguing experience so I was a little nervous about taking on cataloguing duties, but the system made it really easy. Everything is super intuitive and organized in a logical, easy-to-use way.

Cons:

Sometimes it can be a tiny bit glitchy in terms of little things, like pages loading and things like that! I'm hoping some of the kinks will get worked out as the system gets updated (which does happen reasonably frequently).

Library Management System by Bailey review

Pros:

User friendly software without complex or expensive training coupled with excellent customer service.

Cons:

The name and the branding. i think it devalues the product.

Gilbert Inglefield

Comments: We moved from a large, corporate-driven management system, focused on selling you further products.
The difference in SLLS is having very similar product without the commercialism and the cost saving benefits

Pros:

It's simplicity, with the ability to carry out tasks in a straightforward, logical way.

Cons:

One off larger, more complex tasks, for example an audit, are not always easy to work out the most effective way to do it.

Great Product, excellent customer service

Comments: I previously had Koha and would not recommend this to anyone. So I was looking for a simple system, cost effective, customer service and modern. I then found this one. It is very easy to use, modern, shows what has been catalogued, price, account manager so you if have any issues you can go to them. With SLLS, this is perfect, don't have any problems with it. Its has alot information like reporting and other features, no technical jargon that you cant understand. They tailor to your needs and make sure everything is perfect for you. Customer service and support is excellent. Training is good as well. The videos are excellent. I certainly recommend this software to any organisation who has a library. I have used many in my time, this one certainly reaches the top of my list.

Pros:

Look, tailored to your organisations needs easier to use simple to use shows what has just been catalogued

Cons:

I haven't encountered any problems. There isn't anything least i have issues with.

SLLS Review

Comments: Great for budgets, easier for users to access

Pros:

Easy to use. Good features. Excellent value for money. Very good customer service team

Cons:

I don't know on any features that I want added