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Sandwell Library and Information Service
RedSky IT is helping Sandwell Library & Information Service to broaden its reach and raise achievements in a very diverse community.
Sandwell, located in the West Midlands provides services to a population of over 282,000 people from its 19 public and 2 mobile libraries. The library service acts as a pivotal part of the community, which includes a broad range of ages, ethnic groups and social backgrounds.
It has an ongoing commitment to its customers to provide them with the best possible services available and to build on its recent achievements which include a people’s network project to encourage customers to use computers for learning, and the launch of its online public access catalogue that enables customers to gain admission to the library’s catalogues and search, reserve and renew stock items.
The library also offers an extensive range of customer facilities that include a toy library for ‘stay and play’ sessions, staff supported homework clubs and stock deliveries, using its mobile library units, to schools, leisure centres, religious venues, and community centres.
Sandwell has been a customer of RedSky IT since 1990 and in 2001 RedSky IT helped Sandwell to launch its first mobile and laptop library projects using funding from the Government’s Surestart Programme. In September 2004 Sandwell decided to migrate to the Liberate Library Management System, as it wanted to be brought up to date with the latest technologies, particularly in the area of integrated management reporting.
Liberate will provide Sandwell with the ability to develop and improve its services and to match stock with its customers’ needs. It is an integrated management system that helps public libraries to measure the standards they are set by central government and to operate in line with the government’s agenda for electronic service delivery. It will cover all of Sandwell’s day-to-day library management and reporting needs and will ensure that as the library’s requirements grow, additional modules and amendments can be easily made.