The user dashboard keeps following information:

• My books: detailed list of books issued by the user
• Profile management
• The user can generate ‘book request’ which isn’t available in library.
• Fine Details
• Search

• Catalog Search
• Advanced Search
• Urdu Search
• Magazine search
• Journals search

• My Cart (ability to browse through entire library contents and adding books in cart and reserving them)
• Digital collection
• Library Forum
• Automatic listing of New Arrivals (books)
• Library News
• Download link for digital contents
• Search library contents through Title, Classification number, Subject, Author name, keyword

User Profile Manager:
- Create admin and non-admin accounts
- The user can add/edit his profile
- Ability to edit name, email, address etc.
- The user can request new books
- Change Libmax portal login and access privileges to the system.

Policy Manager
- Create/edit User role
- Ability to set Fine policy on book lost, damage (not available)
- Issues policies can be set on

• Number of days a book can be issue
• Number of books can be reserved
• Duration of reserve - in days
• Number of days allowed if book is reissued
• Maximum time a member can reserve a book
• Ability of library admin to allow reserve on available book for any role.

- Total number of books each member of this role can issue.
- Ability to control access (issue, reissue and reserve) of members under that role.

Set Fine Policy
- Book Lost fine (multiple options are available like book price, double book price, same book etc.)
- Handle book lost or late book return fine.

Issue Policy
- Number of days a book can be issued for each role
- Number of books reserved at a time.
- Duration (in days) of reserve books
- Number of days a book can be reissued
- Maximum attempts allowed to reissue a book
- Allowing reserve on available book

Membership Policy
- Handle security fee
- Maximum books each member can issue under any role.
- Set number of days a member can keep the book under any role.

Digital Asset Management
- Create/edit User role
- Ability to set Fine policy on book lost, damage (not available)
- Issues policies can be set on

• Number of days a book can be issue
• Number of books can be reserved
• Duration of reserve - in days
• Number of days allowed if book is reissued
• Maximum time a member can reserve a book
• Ability of library admin to allow reserve on available book for any role.

- Total number of books each member of this role can issue.
- Ability to control access (issue, reissue and reserve) of members under that role.

Defining available books type
- Add new book type (like Buy, Donation)
- Remove or Edit book type and its description

Library news and announcements
- Run library news or announcements which are automatically published on every member’s dashboard
- Ability to define name, start and end date, describe venue and details of the announcement.
- Allow/disallow announcement to be viewed on member’s dashboard.
- Ability to send email to all members informing them about the event (news) in library.
- The member can search any current or previous news by title, publisher, publish date.
- Remove news with a single click.

Discussion Boards
- Ability to create categories and sub-categories.
- The members can create topics and post their replies.

Circulation:
- Ability to add/edit member’s detailed profile.
- Ability to change user role as per requirement.
- Ability to allow number of books a user can issue.
- Ability to lock/unlock user account with a single click.
- Control user access to system – allow issue, reissue or reserve.
- Search members by name
- Track member’s book log history (which books he has issued, when is return date and actual return date)
- Ability to issue, reissue or receive book with a single click.
- Report book lost.
- Ability to manage book fines as cash or same copy.

Cataloging
- Ability to add/edit/remove books
- Auto generated Accession Numbers.
- The system can store following information about new book in both English and Urdu.

• ISBN
• Edition
• Price (multi currency support)
• Pages
• Book Type (ability to define new book type)
• Chapters
• Text Language
• No. of copies
• Add Book Cover
• Add Book Title
• Sub-Title
• Relate book to new Subject, Category
• Define standard Classification number
• Add ‘keywords’ for searching book from OPAC and within application.
• Add Author(s) details
• Add Publisher name and publishing year.
• Add Supplier name and purchasing date.
• Define user access on that book (issue, reissue, reserve)

- Ability to search book through Title, Call No., Author, Subject, Category, keywords.
- The system tracks can book history logs
- Ability to migrate from legacy system into Libmax with a single click.
- Import new books detail through excel sheet.
- Define new book type
- Add/remove publisher details like name, address, phone, fax, email and website information. (alphabetic order)
- The ability to print book strikers and cards with company logo. (if book doesn’t exist, system is not throwing any error)
- Add/remove magazine details
- Add magazine title, publisher, publish date and frequency. (Language)
- Add/remove Journal details
- Add Journal title, publisher, publish date and frequency. (Language)
- Auto bar code generation

Acquisition
- Add/remove supplier details like name, address, phone, fax, email and website information.
- Create new budget, allocate funds and duration to it.

Legacy Migration Utility
- Ability to import supplier details
- Import Publisher details
- Ability to import accessions (why and what’s that, and why migration tab is also in cataloging)

Reports
- List of issued books
- List of reserved books
- List of overdue books
- Fine collected
- Fine overdue
- List of new arrivals
- Highest issue books
- Reserved books
- List of lost books
- Book Logging
- Member logging