DITAPlatform · run your own library
Churches, mosques & faith organisations

The study shelf, open all week.

Most congregations have a cupboard of books that circulate by trust and memory. DITA Platform turns that into a real library your members can reach from home, in the languages they read in.

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The problem

The books get lent, and then they don't come back — not from carelessness, but because nobody wrote it down.

Your congregation

Borrowing without asking anyone.

Members reach the shelf on their own, at the hours they actually read.

  • Join with a code. Print it in the bulletin or put it on the noticeboard. No membership list to maintain.
  • Read at home. Study material, commentary and reading for the week, on a phone, offline.
  • Their own languages. Collections in the languages your community speaks, with full right-to-left support.
  • Nothing goes missing. Loans return themselves. Nobody has to ask for a book back.
Your own writing

Publish what you produce.

Sermons, study guides, orders of service and community history become proper books, not photocopies.

  • Turn documents into ebooks. Upload what you have. We convert, tidy and generate covers where they're missing.
  • Always the current version. Update a study guide and everyone has the new one. No stack of outdated printouts.
  • Keep some things private. Restrict material to leaders or a study group, and open the rest to everyone.
  • Local authors. Members who write get shelf space alongside everything else.
Practicalities

Small enough to run yourself.

One volunteer can do it

Setup takes an afternoon. Adding a title takes a minute.

Share the work

Add other people with their own accounts, so it doesn't depend on one person.

Your name on it

Your logo, colours and address. Readers never see ours.

No advertising

We have no advertising business. Nothing is ever sold or shared.

Money

Free for most congregations.

Fifty readers costs nothing, forever. Beyond that it's $29 a month up to 250 readers.

No card to start

Set it up and see whether people use it before anyone pays.

No storage limits

Upload as much as you like, in any format.

Sponsored places

If the budget isn't there, a funder can cover it. Apply and tell us who you serve.

Yours to leave with

Records, collections and member list export in open formats whenever you want.

Start

Fifty readers, free.

Set it up this week, put the code in the bulletin, and see who borrows.