Reduce Workload and Increase Efficiency with Automated Material Handling

With Automated Material Handling, you can improve material circulation, while reducing costs and the need for the physical handling of materials.

How?

Our Automated Material Handling solutions are built around the core element of the process: the book sorter. With Lyngsoe Sort Mate™, users can return their books straight to the sorter, which then moves the books to the destination you have set, whether that be a tote, a bin, or a cart. This removes the need for your librarians to oversee the sorting process, saving them significant time every day. Instead, 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. Additionally, as Sort Mate™ is modular, it can be built to fit your unique library space, no matter the size.

Benefits of Automated Material Handling

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

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

Our intuitive Self-Service Equipment enables your patrons to check out and return their materials independently.

At Lyngsoe Systems we design products that enable you to deliver an enhanced library service. We offer a wide range of self-service options designed to ease routine work tasks and enable your patrons to handle their checkouts, returns, and renewals, so that staff can spend more time on important tasks such as community projects or events.

Self-service is a broad category, covering everything from self-checkout kiosks and 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 keeps track of your materials in real-time, ensuring trackable and reliable operations.

Benefits of Self-Service Equipment

• Automates routine tasks, freeing up resources and ensuring library staff efficiency
• 24/7 access to services, increasing convenience for users
• Reduces labor costs and improves resources
• Easily scale and modify your services to meet your library’s needs

Gain Insights and Improve Library Patron Engagement

With our Intelligent Material Management System™ (IMMS™), you 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 also help you maintain attractive shelf displays by suggesting where materials should go. Tidy shelves with engaging book displays will inspire your patrons and improve their overall 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 requester will be notified that they can pick up their items from 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. Increasingly they are cultural spaces. Sites of information. Community centers. Places of vibrant ideas.

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

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

We call it our Knowledge Hub.

Here you will find blog posts about trends in the library industry, case stories about our products in use, and educational articles about the technology that sits behind our solutions.