A faster way to catalogue your school's book collections
The books are physical. The catalogue needs to be digital. TitleEntry closes that gap faster.
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School libraries and classroom collections share the same problem. The gap between a physical shelf and a digital catalogue is usually filled by someone standing in front of shelves for days with a barcode scanner. Cataloguing stock for a shop instead? See TitleEntry for bookstores.
The two ways schools use TitleEntry
Barcode scanning for individual books
Point your phone at the ISBN barcode on any book. The cover loads and all metadata fills in automatically - title, author, publisher, year, genre. No typing. Move to the next book and repeat. Good for processing new acquisitions, cataloguing a classroom collection shelf by shelf, or adding individual books to an existing catalogue.
AI shelf scan for an entire shelf at once
Take a photo of a shelf and TitleEntry reads every visible spine. All the books appear as a list, ready to review and export. Good for full library inventory where speed matters more than individual book-by-book control.
Both methods end in the same place - a complete list you can export to Excel. By country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. Read more about the AI bookshelf scanner, or see our general guide to library inventory.
Works on books without barcodes
School collections accumulate books over decades. A lot of them predate ISBNs. TitleEntry's AI shelf scan reads spine text directly, so older books get catalogued the same way as everything else. For individual books without a readable barcode, add them manually - title, author, genre.
Export to spreadsheet in one click
When scanning is done, download your full catalogue as an Excel file. The file works in Excel, Google Sheets, or any software your school already uses. If your district needs a record of book collections, the export gives you exactly that.
Honest about what TitleEntry is and is not
TitleEntry is a cataloguing and export tool. It is not a library management system. It does not handle circulation, student accounts, overdue tracking, or an OPAC. See our guide to book cataloguing software for how the options compare.
If you already use a system like Follett Destiny, the Excel export gives you a spreadsheet you can adapt into that system's import format. If your school has no digital catalogue at all, TitleEntry builds one from scratch in a day. Once your catalogue is built, move books between shelf locations, remove withdrawn titles, and keep records accurate as new stock arrives - you do not have to start from scratch every year.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Any collection of books - classroom shelves, reading corners, subject-specific collections in departments - can be catalogued with TitleEntry.
The AI shelf scan identifies books by reading the spine text, so no barcode is needed. For individual books with no barcode, add them manually.
Title, author, ISBN, publisher, year, genre, and language. You can also add shelf labels so the export shows where each book is located.
No. It catalogues and exports. If you have a system already, use the export as a starting point for your import. If you do not have a system, use the spreadsheet as your record.
Get in touch and we will talk through your collections and set you up.