29 May 2019
Lyngsoe Systems has announced that on 15 May 2019 the Intelligent Material Management System went live across the 37 branches of the Helsinki City Library. The Lyngsoe IMMS was developed in close cooperation with Copenhagen and Aarhus Public Libraries.
The Helsinki City libraries include the beautiful Oodi library in central Helsinki, a modern library space with room for a wide variety of user activities and a user-tailored collection of physical books. The number of visitors welcomed by Helsinki’s new central library Oodi, since the library opening in early December 2018, has exceeded 20,000 on the busiest days – twice the predicted number and in all the Helsinki City Library services circulates almost 10 million volumes a year to their just over 600,000 users.
The Helsinki City Library is the first library outside Denmark to implement IMMS. The system offers real-time communication between the ILS and the library automation hardware, as well as staff mobile devices, making it possible to locate items correctly, as well as managing storage space and meeting patron expectations by having the correct books for the community on the shelves of each local branch.