Who it's for
For K–12 school libraries
Public or private, one librarian or two, a thousand titles or ten thousand. If your library is still run from a notebook because every system you were shown needed something you do not have, this was built for you.
The fit
What we assumed about your library
One librarian, sometimes part-time
Bookleaf assumes the person running the library also teaches, or covers two campuses. Self-service on the patron side exists precisely so the desk is not the bottleneck.
A collection in the low thousands
Big enough that a notebook has stopped working, small enough that nobody is going to fund a server. This is the exact size the product was built around.
Students with Android phones
Rather than buying OPAC terminals the school cannot afford, the catalog goes on devices the students already carry.
Internet that comes and goes
Circulation cannot depend on the connection. In Bookleaf it never does — the library works identically whether the line is up or down.
Rollout
A realistic first term
You do not have to catalog the whole collection before the system is useful. The schools that succeed with this start smaller than they expect to.
Week one — get the collection in
Import the inventory spreadsheet the school already keeps for auditing. Even if it is incomplete, it beats starting from an empty catalog, and you can correct records as books circulate.
Week two — register sections
Add students by section rather than all at once. A class at a time keeps the ID numbers and PINs manageable, and gives you a small group to test the patron app with.
Week three — set real policy
Once you can see actual borrowing, set loan periods and limits that match how your library really works — separate rules for teachers, shorter loans on reserve materials.
End of term — produce the report
Circulation for the term, most-borrowed titles, gate traffic, overdue aging. This is the evidence that keeps a library funded, and you will have it without counting anything by hand.
For the principal
The case in four sentences
- It costs ₱1,499 — a one-time software license. Not a recurring subscription, so it does not need to survive future budget cycles.
- It needs no new hardware. One existing Windows PC and the Wi-Fi the school already pays for.
- No student data leaves the school. Nothing is uploaded to any company, here or abroad.
- It produces the numbers you ask for. Circulation, usage and collection reports, without the librarian counting by hand.
Try it on your own catalog this week.
Download Bookleaf and run the full system free for 7 days — every feature, no card, no account needed. If it fits, the software license is ₱1,499, one time.