Reduce Your Workload and Increase your Efficiency with Automated Material Handling

With automated material handling, you can improve material circulation, while reducing cost and the need for physical handling of materials.

How?

Our automated material handling solutions are built around the core of the process: the book sorter. With the Lyngsoe Sort Mate™, your patrons can return their materials straight into the sorter, which then leads the books to the destination that you have set whether that is a tote, a bin, or a cart. No need for librarians to oversee the sorting process, saving them significant time every day. They can simply pick up the materials, when the destination is full and take them straight to the shelves.

Along with the Sort Mate Series, we offer a range of ergonomic inductions and destinations, as well as other products to supplement your sorter for a tailor-made solution. The Sort Mate is, moreover, modular and can thus be built to fit your unique library space, no matter the size.

Benefits of Automated Material Handling:

• Quick check-in of returned materials
• Less resources needed for sorting and shelving
• One touch from return to shelf
• Ergonomic solutions to avert physical strain for staff

Free Up Staff Time and Offer Improved Service with Self-Service Equipment

With intuitive self-service equipment you can save resources, as your patrons check out and return their materials independently.

Lyngsoe Systems Library Solutions offers a wide range of self-service solutions designed to ease routine work tasks and let your patrons handle checkouts, returns, and renewals, so that your staff can spend their time on more important tasks such as community projects or events.

Self-service is a broad category and covers everything from self-check kiosks to intelligent hold and return shelves to self-operated library solutions and much more. Common to them all, is the use of innovative RFID technology that always keeps track of your materials, ensuring safe and reliable operations.

Benefits of Self-Service Equipment:

• Automates routine tasks, freeing up staff resources
• 24/7 Access to services, increasing convenience for patrons
• Reduces labor costs and improves resources
• Easily scale and modify services to meet needs

Gain Insight into Your Collections and Improve Your Patron Experience

With our Intelligent Material Management System™ (IMMS), you can gain an overview of your collection as it moves from storage to shelf to exhibition to loans.

The IMMS™ software keeps track of every single item and makes sure that they are evenly distributed across branches as needed. This enables precise inventory management and prevents the loss or misplacement of library materials.

Because IMMS™ knows where all items are at all times, it can help you maintain attractive shelf displays by telling you where materials should go. Nice and tidy shelves with room for book displays will inspire your patrons and improve your patron experience.

To further enhance the experience and improve efficiency, IMMS™ lets you batch handle holds without the need for paper slips. You can simply place holds on any given shelf, scan the items onto the shelf and the patrons will be notified that they can pickup their items on that shelf.

Benefits of Intelligent Material Management:

• Provides actionable data for smarter collection management
• Reduces misplaced items and simplifies holds

Knowledge Hub

Libraries are no longer just libraries. They are cultural spaces. Sites of information. Community centers. Places of vibrant ideas.

With all these new roles come new demands: local community responsibility. Frictionless experiences. The library was never meant to be a static site for static knowledge.

Similarly to libraries, we seek out new information, inspiration, and innovation. Some of it we have gathered here for the benefit of everyone. Because we believe in sharing our expertise and experience.

We call it our Knowledge Hub.

Here you will find blog posts about trends in the library industry, educational articles about RFID technology, and everything else that goes behind the solution.