Multi-branch, multi-location library management for schools, colleges, public libraries, and corporate libraries — cataloguing with Dewey/LC/custom, barcode + RFID book tracking, self-checkout kiosks, OPAC, digital library, MARC21 + Z39.50 interop.
Ketpy Library is a comprehensive multi-branch library management system engineered for the full spectrum of Indian libraries: school libraries (500-5,000 books), college and university libraries (10,000-500,000 books), public libraries (municipal / district / state), corporate learning libraries, specialised research libraries, and multi-branch library networks (a state education department running libraries in 200 schools with centralised procurement and shared cataloguing). Handles cataloguing with the world's three main classification schemes — Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC 23rd edition), Library of Congress Classification (LCC), and Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) — plus custom classification schemes for specialised libraries (medical libraries using NLM, law libraries using KF, corporate libraries using proprietary schemes). Barcode and RFID book tracking with self-checkout kiosks (member swipes card, scans book, gets receipt, walks out — no librarian bottleneck), self-return drop-boxes with instant status update, and inventory audits via handheld RFID readers (audit 10,000 books in an afternoon instead of a week of manual counting).
Member cards with expiry dates and role-based borrowing limits (undergrad students: 3 books for 14 days, postgrad: 5 books for 21 days, faculty: 15 books for 60 days, guest: 1 book for 7 days), automatic membership renewal on fee payment, and photo-ID cards printable directly from the system. Book reservations across branches with inter-library transfer (a student at Kochi branch can reserve a book physically at Chennai branch, and it ships between branches with tracking). Automatic fine calculation with grace periods (₹1/day after 14-day due, waived if returned within 3-day grace), fine caps per book, and appeal workflow. Reports for most-issued titles (procurement guidance), idle inventory (books not issued in 2 years — deaccession candidates), member engagement (top readers get recognition), overdue-book collection reminders (SMS/email/WhatsApp), and academic-specific reports (syllabus-book availability, per-course borrowing patterns). Public-facing OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) for members to search, reserve, and renew — accessible from library computers, member phones, or your library website. Mobile app for members with barcode-scan quick-lookup, notification of held-reservation ready-for-pickup, and reading-history. Digital library module for eBooks (EPUB, PDF, MOBI) with time-limited borrowing (14-day loans that auto-expire, DRM-protected), online magazine subscriptions integrated (JSTOR, Springer, IEEE Xplore for academic), and audio-book support. Integration with popular library standards MARC21 (bibliographic exchange format) and Z39.50 (search protocol) for interoperability with WorldCat, Library of Congress, and national library catalogues. Multi-language interface for regional libraries (Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, etc.).
Concrete capabilities you get when you engage Ketpy for Ketpy Library Management System.
The kinds of businesses and use-cases Ketpy Library Management System is engineered to serve.
Age-appropriate borrowing limits, teacher-checkout, student-reading trackers.
Syllabus-aligned book procurement, faculty vs student limits, thesis + research paper archive.
Citizen membership, multi-branch inter-library loans, multi-language cataloguing.
Employee borrowing, technical book subscriptions, mandatory-read tracking.
Custom classification (NLM medical, KF law), rare-book handling, digital archive.
Centralised procurement + shared cataloguing across 50-500 branches.
Measurable business benefits our customers report after adopting Ketpy Library Management System.
What you get when you partner with us on Ketpy Library Management System.
Certified senior engineers with 10+ years building Product systems for regulated and high-growth businesses.
From discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and steady-state operations — one accountable team.
Two-week sprints with working demos, transparent burn-downs, and outcomes you can measure each fortnight.
Distributed senior teams in India, UK, US, and UAE — your delivery window matches your business hours.
ISO 27001 certified processes, SOC 2 ready, GDPR and HIPAA-aware controls baked in from day one.
Fixed-bid, time-and-material, dedicated squad, or staff augmentation — we match the model to your reality.
A guided live walkthrough of the product tailored to your team — every module you care about, mapped to your actual use-cases, with unlimited Q&A. You see exactly what you're getting before any commitment. Discovery meets demonstration in a single session.
Your logo, your colours, your domain, your terminology. We configure client-specific workflows, custom fields, integrations with the tools you already use, and any scope-included tweaks to match how your team actually works. Every product is white-labelable end-to-end.
Your team runs UAT (User Acceptance Testing) on a fully-configured staging environment with real test-data. We triage every observation by priority, fix, retest, and demo the resolution — nothing goes live until you sign off in writing.
Go-live on your chosen infrastructure — Ketpy-managed cloud (AWS Mumbai default), your own cloud, or on-premise. Data migration cutover on a low-traffic window, DNS + SSL setup, user training sessions, and launch communications ready. Rollback plan documented for the worst case.
Twelve months of continuous updates included — feature additions, security patches, WordPress / OS / dependency compatibility, quarterly product upgrades, and an annual roadmap review. Email + WhatsApp support with SLA response times so you're never left waiting.
Tools and platforms we use day-to-day for Ketpy Library Management System. We are tool-agnostic — we pick what fits your stack.
Ketpy Library is priced per branch with unlimited books/members (competitors charge per book or per member above certain limits), includes mobile app + WhatsApp for members natively (add-on in others), and native support for Indian classification and cataloguing standards. Migration from KOHA is straightforward via MARC21 export. From legacy library systems/SOUL we have custom migration tools. 4-6 week typical migration.
Start with barcodes (₹8-15 per label) which cost effectively nothing. Upgrade to RFID (₹35-80 per tag) when you cross ~10,000 books or want anti-theft gates. Our system supports both simultaneously — barcode for older books, RFID for new procurement, seamless mixed operation.
Upload EPUBs / PDFs to our secure repository, add DRM (via our tokenised reader that expires access after loan period), and members "borrow" eBooks from the OPAC. Downloaded content is device-locked and self-expires. For paid content (JSTOR, IEEE), we integrate via institutional access APIs — members log in via library credentials and access full journal databases.
Yes. Multi-branch mode with hierarchical org (state → district → school), centralised procurement (state buys in bulk, allocates to schools), shared cataloguing (a book classified once is available to all), and consolidated MIS. Inter-library loans between schools where feasible. We've done deployments of 200+ branches.
MARC21 remains the primary bibliographic standard (RDA is content-rules, works over MARC), and we support RDA-compliant cataloguing (relationships, expressions, manifestations). BIBFRAME (Library of Congress's successor) is partially supported for export — full BIBFRAME support is on our 2026 roadmap.
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