Closed and secure environments
Reading where the internet isn't open. Secure facilities, detention settings and closed units all face the same problem: books are welcome, open internet is not. DITA Platform runs on managed devices, offline, with a catalog your staff approve title by title.
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Offline devices · no network Your branding · your domain
The problem
The usual answer is a trolley of donated paperbacks, because every digital option assumes an open connection nobody will permit.
Control
Nothing gets in that you didn't approve. The catalog is a closed list, not a search of the internet.
Title-by-title approval. Nothing appears on a shelf until a member of staff publishes it. There is no route to anything you haven't added.Kiosk mode. Lock a device to the library — no browser, no address bar, no way out to the open web. On the roadmap, not shipped.No messaging. There is no chat, no comments, no user-to-user anything. It is a library, and only a library.Withdraw instantly. Unpublish a title and it disappears from every device, including ones already offline, at next connection.Access
Reading without accounts you have to manage. Staff shouldn't have to create and delete an account for every person who arrives and leaves.
Join from a printed code. A code on a wall or a card. No name, no record number, nothing tied to a case file.Codes expire on their date. Access ends by itself, so nobody has to deprovision anyone on release day.Offline by default. Borrowed titles work with no connection at all — the device only needs a network to borrow and return.Shared devices. A device can be handed on and cleared, without the next reader seeing the last one's history.Practicalities
What your security lead will ask. No open internet
The library can be reachable on an internal network only, with no route to anything else.
Old hardware is fine
It runs in a browser on whatever tablets or terminals you already have.
No personal data
Where readers join from a code, we hold the code and the loan. Nothing else.
Audit trail
Who published what, and when. Staff actions are logged; readers are not profiled.
Getting started
Start with one unit. A pilot on a single unit tells you more than a procurement exercise. Most facilities do that first.
Approve a shelf
Staff pick a starting catalog — open collections by subject, plus anything you already hold.
A handful of devices
Locked to the library, charged on a trolley or fixed in place.
Print the codes
One per unit, or one per person, with an expiry that matches your policy.
Then widen
Add units, add staff reference material, connect your own sign-in for employees.
Start
Talk to us about a pilot. Secure settings usually need a conversation before a card. Tell us your constraints and we'll tell you honestly whether this fits.
× Request access
Tell us about your library A few details and we'll get you set up. We reply to everyone.