Small public libraries
A digital branch you can afford. The big lending platforms are priced for city systems, and they own the reader relationship. DITA Platform gives a small library its own digital branch — your name, your catalog, alongside whatever you already license.
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The problem
A town of eight thousand people gets the same quote as a metropolitan system, and the platform's name goes on the app, not the library's.
Your own branch
Under your name, not a vendor's. The reader is borrowing from you. The software shouldn't say otherwise.
Your name and address. Your logo, colours and domain. Readers never see ours, on any plan.Your catalog. Local history, town records, community publications and anything you've digitised — material no national platform will ever carry.Open collections. Standard Ebooks and the Open Textbook Library by subject, free, so the shelf is never thin.Alongside, not instead. This doesn't replace a commercial lending contract. It carries what that contract never will.Your readers
Library card, or no card at all. Small libraries know their readers. The software shouldn't make that harder than it is.
Card or code. Match to your existing membership, or let people join with a printed code from the noticeboard.No fines. Loans return themselves on their date. Nothing to chase, nothing to collect.Offline reading. Borrowed titles work at home with no connection, which still matters in a lot of places.Accessible as standard. Adjustable type, dyslexia-friendly settings, screen reader support and read-along audio.Money
Priced for a town, not a city. $99 a month covers a thousand readers, with the whole product. No per-title fees and no storage charges.
No content markup
We supply no commercial titles and take no cut of the ones you license. Your budget stays yours.
Invoice or PO
Whatever your finance office needs, on any paid plan.
Sponsored places
Where the budget genuinely isn't there, a funder can cover it.
A county or a group?
Several libraries under one account is set up with us directly, not on a card.
Start
Start with local history. Free up to fifty readers. Put your local collection online first — it's the part nobody else will ever carry.
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