BDS has worked with Softlink since 2004, bringing books to life for millions of students. The UK’s foremost metadata supplier provides all the detailed fiction and non-fiction content a school needs. BDS metadata ensures school libraries around the world offer the best possible experience to students while allowing librarians more time to focus on their borrowers.
“I’ve seen a vast improvement in the independence of students when using the library. Instead of relying on staff to locate books for them they use Oliver v5, searching by key words or topics. They are also discovering more with accurate search results and visibility of all resources available related to their search.”
Sarah Lodge, Former Librarian Feversham Academy, UK
School librarians appreciate the detailed bibliographic information that supports stock management and title selection. One simple scan of an ISBN and the record is ready for your catalogue with Library of Congress genres, subjects, abstracts and cover images making your books attractive and easier to find.
Students are attracted to titles via “sneak peeks” of the first few pages of a book, clickable links to reviews from readers around the world, links to webpages about the book, and author videos.
BDS metadata gets the right book in the rights hands.
THE DETAIL
“We like the way Oliver v5 provides us with a comprehensive system to organise the cataloguing and circulation of books so that we can do our work more efficiently.”
Katie Stears, Lead Teacher of Information Literacy
BDS metadata is based on the UK’s published output and uses book-in-hand cataloguing to ensure accuracy. Records meet all library standards, integrating into Softlink’s Oliver v5 software to ensure smooth transition between user and information.
Power to librarians:
- Easy and super-simple cataloguing frees up time to promote reading
- Market-leading coverage of UK publications
- Perfect for schools in the UK and overseas
- Automatically tag books with the Key Stage for easy searching
- Ideal for both Dewey and genre-driven libraries
- Pre-loaded subjects for every book
- The right book in the right hands – Accelerated Reader level and points information included
“Cataloguing my resources could not be faster or easier, which frees up a lot of my time for other tasks within the library.”
Power to students:
- Find out more about the writers with author biographies
- What do others think? Book reviews on your desktop
- Check out a few pages with our digital scans
- Get the low-down with spot-on book descriptions
- Books leap from the screen with brilliant jacket covers
“The thing I like best about Oliver is that it can be used on so many different levels. A beginner can just use the basic parts of the system, but as you get more confident you can add further functions, until you are able to customise the system for your own use and your library and school.”
Ginette Doyle, Past Librarian Cheltenham College, UK
“The library is a bright and spacious alternative classroom and teachers bring their classes in for research sessions or a change of scenery. I also provide topic boxes to take to classrooms, one of the most popular ones is a “space” box for science.”
Amy Hayes, Librarian, Waddesdon Church of England School
