Librar
Librar provides an AI-powered integrated library system (ILS) for schools, enabling librarians to catalog, inventory, and manage collections using a standard phone camera. The platform's Librar Intelligence automates bulk scanning, shelf sorting, and acquisitions, freeing librarians to focus on students. Trusted by 100+ schools and districts across the U.S. and Europe, it includes patron self-checkout, automated reminders, and LMS integrations.
- Education Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
- AI Agents
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
School libraries often lack adequate management systems—98% of the world's schools still don't have one—forcing librarians to rely on manual handling, complicated legacy tools, or pen and paper. This creates unclear workflows, makes it difficult to find librarians, and ultimately reduces time spent fostering student reading.
Solution
Librar provides a unified integrated library system (ILS) with AI-powered tools that simplify cataloging, inventory, and patron management. Librarians photograph shelves with a standard phone, and Librar Intelligence identifies titles, pulls metadata from sources like the National Library of Sweden and Library of Congress, and supports actions like adding books, taking inventory, flagging misplaced items, or analyzing circulation. The platform includes a patron self-checkout, public catalog website, automated reminders, statistics, and LMS integrations. An always-available AI assistant answers natural-language questions about the system, catalog, or patrons, freeing librarians to focus on students.
Target Audience
Primary customers are school librarians, school districts, and educational institutions in the U.S. and Europe that need an efficient, mobile-first library management system.
Features
- Camera-based bulk scanning identifies every spine on a photographed shelf and matches it against the catalog automatically, with uncertain matches flagged for review
- Smart shelf sorting suggests collection organization based on catalog data and lesson plans, including display recommendations for popular subjects
- Smart acquisitions analyzes loans, reservations, and collection gaps to generate purchase recommendations and replacement ideas with documentation for school leadership
- Patron self-checkout and public catalog website for student-facing access
- Automated reminders for due dates and statistics/reporting dashboards
- Support for ISBN, unique barcodes, and RFIDs via the Librar Mobile app
- Natural language AI assistant that can answer questions such as "Which students have not borrowed anything in three months?"
- ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant for student data protection