Beyond the Basics: How Are Accessit’s New Language Tools Transforming Library Discovery?
Language That Works Everywhere
Every school library serves a multi-cultural community, whether it’s 5% or 50% of the collection in non-English languages. Until now, language information in MARC records was mostly invisible in everyday library workflows. It didn’t help students find a Spanish book for language class or support staff during cultural celebrations.
Now it does.
With this release, language data becomes fully searchable, sortable, and visible across Accessit Library. Whether you’re a teacher building a reading list, a librarian preparing for language week or a cultural event, or a student looking for books in your home language, you’ll find what you’re looking for, fast.
So whats new?
Automatic Language Population
Accessit now pulls language data directly from MARC records into a new, dedicated Language field – no setup required. If your records contain this data, it’s already working for you.
Advanced Discovery Tools
Language information is now fully integrated into Fast Find, Advanced Search, Custom Search, and Visual Search.
At-a-Glance Visibility
Language fields now display in hover overviews, search results, list views, and even barcodes and spine labels.
Visual Search by Language
Curate collections and build themed displays in just a few clicks – no coding, no setup, no extra cost.
Support for All
Whether you’re managing a bilingual collection or just starting to build a multi-cultural corner of your library, these tools support your goals from day one.
How This Update Differs
This release shows the power of working with our customers, and even non-customers, to understand what libraries need as our world becomes more multi-cultural, and reflects the needs of multi-lingual and transient student populations in international schools.
Librarians said:
“We want to make finding resources in any language easier. How can I help students discover resources in any language, not just English?”
We agreed, and asked: “Where does language really show up in the library workflow?” Then we built a solution that works in every one of those steps in the workflow – 25 coordinated improvements, all working together, automatically.
You don’t need to turn anything on. You don’t need to migrate records. You don’t need to retrain staff. It just works.
And it works everywhere.
Why? Because building software for schools should make school life easier. And this is our way of showing we’re listening.
Note: Locally hosted customers will need to ensure they have updated to Accessit Library v9.3.6. Cloud-hosted customers will be automatically be updated. Find out more in our Customer Portal article here.
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Whether you’re starting a reading program from scratch or scaling an existing one across your school, Accessit Library is your trusted partner in bringing the power of reading to every student.
