Suprata for public libraries

The programs, rooms and people around your collection

Libraries run story times, classes and meeting rooms, lean on volunteers and record more programs on video every year. Suprata handles that work beside your catalog system. Patrons register and book from a phone, volunteers check in at a kiosk, and every recording gets captions.

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Woman leading a session for a diverse group of adults in a bright, modern room
The kiosk setup screen, where each branch tablet is set to its site and volunteers check themselves in.

Sound familiar?

What a normal week looks like without the right system

We hear these from public libraries all the time. Here is what Suprata does about each one.

Story time fills in ten minutes, and then we run the waitlist from a clipboard at the desk.

Suprata Recreation holds registration spots in a timed cart and runs a smart waitlist that enrolls the next eligible person automatically.

The community room is double-booked every other week because the calendar is a shared spreadsheet.

Rooms are booked by picking an open time, and recurring bookings show every conflict before staff confirm.

Our volunteers shelve, tutor and run the book sale, and I have no idea whose background check is still current.

Suprata Volunteer tracks each volunteer's waivers, clearances and training, and reminds them before anything expires.

We post our author talks online, but they have no captions, and that is a problem.

Suprata Captioning returns human-checked captions and transcripts on a turnaround clock, and every recording goes into a searchable library.

What runs your day

The parts of Suprata that fit public libraries

Suprata is a versatile workflow and business intelligence platform that delivers the power of custom software with ease and affordability. These are the pieces that matter most to you.

Ready-made solution

Suprata Recreation

Program registration for families, room reservations by open time, waitlists and a phone app for patrons.

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Suprata Volunteer

Volunteer sign-up by phone, compliance steps, shift scheduling and kiosk check-in at each branch.

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Suprata Training

Required staff training and policy sign-offs by job title, with courses that play in the browser.

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Suprata Captioning

Captions and transcripts for recorded programs and board meetings, billed by department.

See Captioning Ready-made solution

Suprata Property

Barcode-tag laptops, hotspots and other equipment, and run scan-based inventories.

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Suprata Agenda

Library board agendas, packets, votes and minutes posted to a public portal.

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A day in the life with Suprata

One ordinary day, start to finish

Here is how the work flows when every call, job, booking and payment lives in one place.

  1. 9:00 am

    Branch kiosk

    Volunteers at the Old Town branch check in at the kiosk tablet, and their hours start counting.

  2. 10:00 am

    Story time

    Registration for the fall story time series opens. The cart holds each family's spot while they check out.

  3. 11:30 am

    Room booking

    A community group books the meeting room every Tuesday in November, and staff see no conflicts before confirming.

  4. 1:00 pm

    Staff training

    Two new hires complete the required patron privacy course in the browser and sign the policy.

  5. 3:00 pm

    Captions back

    The captions for last week's author talk come back checked, and the video goes up with captions.

  6. 5:00 pm

    Equipment count

    Staff scan the hotspot shelf, and the variance report shows one unit missing from the last count.

See it on screen

Real Suprata screens

Sample data, real software. Every screen below comes straight from Suprata.

The kiosk setup screen, where each branch tablet is set to its site and volunteers check themselves in.
The kiosk setup screen, where each branch tablet is set to its site and volunteers check themselves in.
The captioning library: search every transcript by word, speaker or topic and jump to that moment.
The captioning library: search every transcript by word, speaker or topic and jump to that moment.

Questions we hear

Straight answers

Asked by public libraries before they switch.

From the help center

Does Suprata replace our catalog system?

No. Suprata runs programs, rooms, volunteers, training, equipment and video beside the catalog and circulation system you already use.

Can patrons register and book on their phones?

Yes. The Suprata Recreation public app installs to the home screen and works as the desktop portal too, with a Spanish-language version.

Can volunteers sign up without a password?

Yes. They sign up with a one-time passcode by text or email in about a minute.

How fast do captions come back?

Each request gets a due time when it arrives. The turnaround is a setting, and a live countdown shows on every request.

Something else? Call 888-494-4335, email hello@suprata.com or ask “Does Suprata do this?”

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See it working with your own rules

Every Suprata solution is shaped around how your organization works. Book a demo and we will walk you through it, then talk pricing.

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