L4U Platinum Elite: for Individual Libraries

L4U Platinum Elite is our award winning Library Management System designed to automate all processes for a single Library. Packaged with a comprehensive array of features that make it easy to manage all your Library resources, L4U is friendly and intuitive for Patrons of all ages, powerful and easy to use for the Librarians, and reliable and secure for your IT department.

For the Patron

Easy to use Patron Interfaces with Integrated iPAC

L4U iPAC goes hand in hand with L4U Library Software enabling an unlimited number of patrons to search your library catalog from anywhere!

This software will support an unlimited number of concurrent connections to your L4U database. These connections can be made using any standard HTML browser allowing your patrons unprecedented access to your libraries catalog and enabling your patrons to search your collection from anywhere. No third party software required.

Installing and configuring L4U iPAC is quick and easy. There are no confusing libraries or CGI scripts that must be loaded. L4U handles it all for you automatically.

L4U iPAC provides the administrator with the power to decide whether to enable or disable features from our full suite of functions from our Library Management Software such as Renewals, Reserves or Advanced Bookings. Allow patrons to view their account information, activity, items out, items overdue, historical data and much more!

L4U's iPAC interfaces comes with 10 different age appropriate skins to engage all your Patrons
Logo Replacement - Administrative Users can replace the L4U logo with their School logo
English, Spanish and French language interfaces are included
Topic Search - create and save visual custom queries - includes 100 Topic Searches and images based on the Dewey Divisions
The iPAC will automatically check spelling and suggest alternative searches to help bring Patrons and Resources together
Patrons or Administrators can easily customize the look and feel of their iPAC
Patrons can create Bookbags to manage and share resources they are interested in
The My Profile page allows Patrons to view their library account, place reserves or holds, view history and even renew items
Easily browse between search results pages or change the number of results displayed per page

Additional Record Details can be seen simply by hovering the mouse over the item
Social Network Sharing Tools
Direct Access to eResources
Federated Searching on Subscription Databases
Keyword Searching of the full MARC record
Phrase Searching
Inverted Word Searching
Phonetic Searching
Item Ratings allows for Patron interaction
Advanced Searching
Visual Searching
Spell Checking
Search Suggestions
Search the catalog from any page
Exact match searching
Boolean searching

For the Librarian

L4U Freedom: Online Library Administration Tool

Imagine the power of managing all of the day to day tasks in your library anytime, anywhere!

With L4U Freedom, school, public and special libraries can reduce the costs for software licensing, hardware and staffing by having secure web-based access to their library like no other product available today. Print Labels, Reports, Import, Catalog and Circulate items, perform inventory, modify clients, and a wealth of other features are all available, anytime, anywhere!

These features were traditionally available in the L4U application itself, not on the web. With Freedom, you have unlimited Circulation stations, Label Stations, Report Stations, etc. This is important to repeat. With L4U Freedom you can do Circulation on 50 computers all at the same time, no additional costs, no special hardware required.

L4U Freedom, another reason L4U is Library Management Made Easy!

Secure Login

Required login to access web based management tools
Assign user privileges

Web Based Cataloging

Obtain complete MARC Records and Bookcovers in seconds
Imports complete MARC Record information in original MARC Format
Retrieve records by searching on any one, or a combination of a number of fields
Retrieve records simultaneously from the Library of Congress, Amazon and the CheckMARC subscription database, with L4U CheckMARC Platinum
Over 1 Million fields of actual school content
Easy To Use! Import records with a single click

Web Based Client Management

Add Clients
Modify Clients

Web Based Label Production

Easy Labels for Barcodes
Easy Labels for Spine Labels
Easy Labels for Client Cards
Customize Labels with fields from the database
Customize Labels with static text
Customize fonts and font sizes
Choose from standard label stock options

Web Based Circulation

Circulation In/Out
Search for Patrons or Items
Pay Fines and Other Charges

Web Based Inventory

Perform Inventory from anywhere, anytime

Web Based Client Report Options

Report on all clients
Report on a specific client
Report on a specific homeroom
Client history reports
Client Fines/Other Charges report

Web Based Item Report Options

Bibliographic Reports
Overdue Reports on all Items
Overdue Reports for a specific client
Overdue Reports for a specific homeroom
Sorting options
Report on all items out
Report on Items out for a specific client
Report on Items out for a specific homeroom

Web Based Record Management

Import MARC records
Catalog MARC records

You guys hit a home run with this one!

Joel Stever
Tredyffrin-Easttown School District
Devon, PA

L4U CheckMARC Cataloging Software

With L4U's CheckMARC cataloging software, you can obtain complete MARC records and bookcovers in seconds. There is no need to be a MARC expert. The complete MARC record and bookcover are saved in a single click!

L4U CheckMARC is an online subscription service and database designed to compliment our L4U Library Management Software. Containing over 1 million fields of searchable content, CheckMARC will increase the speed and efficiency of your MARC record cataloging.

The CheckMARC records are in original MARC format, and are derived from actual school content, including over 50,000 French records. Records can be searched by 6 different criteria, including Title, ISBN, Author, Publisher, NLC, LCCN, or all fields simultaneously. Once the appropriate record has been found, the MARC Record can be easily downloaded into your L4U Acquisitions File.

With the CheckMARC Platinum subscription, there is no per record fee. The annual subscription allows librarians to download as many records as needed, via their internet connection

Instant Online MARC Searching!

With L4U CheckMARC, searching for MARC records is now even easier by facilitating online record retrieval simultaneously from the Library of Congress, Amazon and the CheckMARC subscription database.

You can retrieve records by entering any one, or a combination of a number of fields into your L4U acquisition screen, i.e. ISBN, Title, Author.

Benefits of L4U CheckMARC

Save time cataloging! Obtain complete MARC Records and Bookcovers in seconds
Imports complete MARC Record information in original MARC Format
Over 1 Million fields of actual school content
Export or append to file

Imports to L4U or any other library management program
L4U CheckMARC searches over 20 million records from the Library of Congress, Amazon.com, and the L4U CheckMARC database simultaneously
Subscription Service
Easy To Use! Import records with a single click

L4U, is working for me. I don't have a lot of time to spare most days and this system has saved me from typing catalog cards, as well as alphabetizing cards and putting them in the drawers. Students love to look up a book on the computer. The program works so well for the school library that our town library is considering using it.

Theresa Pease, Librarian
Appleton Village School
Appleton, ME

For the Technician:

Automatic Backups: Schedule where and when to perform backups
Confirmation Emails: Automatically receive backup confirmation emails
Journal/Log Files: Store log files for all transactions allowing for reintegration from last backup if required

Recommended Hardware Requirements

Windows Single User

Windows 7 (XP minimum)
Dual Core 2.0 GHz (Celeron processors are not supported)
2 GB of Memory (RAM)
20 GB of free Hard Disk space - Production Drive
120 GB of free Hard Disk space - Backup Drive
Monitor, 256 colors, 1024x768 min. resolution

Macintosh Single User

Macintosh OS 10.5 minimum
Dual Core 2 Ghz (Intel processors only)
2 GB of Memory (RAM)
20 GB of free Hard Disk space - Production Drive
120 GB of free Hard Disk space - Backup Drive
Monitor, 256 colors, 1024x768 min. resolution

Windows - Multi User Server

Windows Server 2008 (Windows 7/2003 minimum)
Dual Core 2.0 GHz (Intel processors only, Celeron processors are not supported)
4 GB of Memory (RAM)
20 GB of free Hard Disk space - Production Drive
120 GB of free Hard Disk space - Backup Drive
Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (10/100/1000baseT)

Macintosh - Multi User Server

Macintosh OS 10.5 minimum
Dual Core 2.0 GHz (Intel processors only, PPC processors are not supported)
4 GB of Memory (RAM)
20 GB of free Hard Disk space - Production Drive
120 GB of free Hard Disk space - Backup Drive
Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (10/100/1000baseT)

Windows - Multi User Admin Utility

Windows XP minimum
1.5 GHz processor (Celeron processor not supported)
2 GB of RAM
500 MB of free Hard Disk space
1.5 Mbps WAN network connection (10Mbps or better recommended)
Monitor, 256 colors, 1024x768 resolution

Macintosh - Multi User Admin Utility

Macintosh OS 10.5 minimum
Dual Core 2.0 GHz or higher, Intel processors only
2 GB of RAM
500 MB of free Hard Disk space
1.5 Mbps WAN network connection (10Mbps or better recommended)
Monitor, 256 colors, 1024x768 resolution

Web Interface - iPAC and L4U Freedom

Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 18, Safari 5 or Chrome 21
Windows XP or Macintosh OS 10.5 minimum
Monitor, 256 colors, 1024x768 min. resolution

Networks & Cabling

TCP/IP
High speed internet or better

Network Adapter: Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
Internet: Some functionality like online registration, verification, updates, CheckMARC access and other online services require Internet Access

Note:

Computers running L4U server or L4U Admin client (but not L4U iPAC) need their date format set to MM/DD/YYYY or M/D/Y.
Hardware requirements depend on your software environment.

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