Features · Reports
Numbers you can put in front of a principal.
A library that cannot produce evidence of its own use is the first budget line to get cut. Bookleaf is built so that evidence is a click, not a week of counting.
Dashboard
Built to be read in five seconds at 8 a.m.
The dashboard is organized by urgency, not by database table. What is on fire sits at the top; the analytical sections live underneath for when you have time to look.
Needs attention today
Overdue count and aging, items due today, loans and returns so far, new members, fines collected. The top of the screen answers "what do I deal with first?"
Act without leaving the page
Record a return or renew an item directly from an overdue row. The dashboard is a working surface, not a poster.
Usable while it loads
The urgent summary appears first and the analytical sections fill in behind it, so a slow query never blocks the thing you opened the app to see.
Reports
The six questions that actually get asked
Circulation trend
Loans and returns over time, so you can show that circulation rose after the reading programme rather than asserting it.
Most-borrowed titles
What the collection is actually used for — and, read the other way, which subjects are taking up shelf space and never moving.
Overdue aging
Not just how many are overdue, but how overdue. A week late and a term late are different problems.
Collection overview
Titles and copies by subject and material type, including lost and damaged counts. The basis of a weeding or acquisition case.
Fines summary
Charged, collected and outstanding. Usually the number the finance office asks for at the end of a term.
Gate traffic
Visits by day and by hour, from the door QR. Answers "when is the library busy" with data instead of an impression.
A note on charts
Readable by everyone, including on a projector
The chart colours were checked for colourblind separation rather than picked to match the logo, and colour is never the only thing carrying meaning — every multi-series chart also has a legend and direct labels. Roughly one in twelve men has some form of colour vision deficiency, and library reports get shown in meetings.
There are also no dual-axis charts anywhere in the product. Two measures on different scales get two charts, because the alternative is a graph that can be read to say whatever the reader already believed.
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