for one school

What does your library system really cost?

The invoice is only part of it. Add up the rest: the server, the updates, the IT time, and the hours your librarian spends waiting for help. Use your own numbers; we’ve filled in typical ones to start.

Where does your current system run?

Your current system

Example school. Replace any number with yours.

Licensefrom your invoice$

Add-onscover art, engagement, sign-in$

Textbook moduleif you track textbooks$

Server, software, backupshardware over 5 years, licenses, power$

IT timepatching, upgrades, adding students hrs

Help-desk ticketslibrary sign-in and account issues tix

Librarian time waiting on ITadding students, fixing accounts hrs

A year, all in$8,563

paid outside the library budget: IT, hardware, staff time.

Browse and Borrow

$3,500

a year, for the whole school

Library and every classroom shelf
Textbooks included
Nothing to install or patch
Librarians add students themselves

Hours a year spent keeping it running

Your system

Browse and Borrow

IT plus librarian hours, based on industry estimates.

Your current system: about $8,563 a year. $6,856 of that is paid outside the library budget, and it takes about 61 hours a year to keep running.

Based on industry estimates. Replace any number with your own; nothing you enter leaves this page.