Library Elf: manage your items online
Library Elf is a new online system that allows you to manage your checked out items, overdues, and reserved items better. You can even do it for your entire family, removing those midnight pangs of overdue anxiety.
Please note that Library Elf is a free service run by an American agency and has no affiliation to Bracknell Forest Council, Bracknell Forest Libraries, or our library management system supplier. Faults or changes with Library Elf are outside the remit of Bracknell Forest. Any errors in Library Elf that result in your failing to renew or return your items will incur fines.
Who uses Library Elf?
- Anyone who wants to reduce overdues
- Families with children and lots of books
- Anyone who requests a lot of holds
What's delivered?
- Email and/or RSS alerts before items are due
- Email and/or RSS alerts on overdues and holds
- Consolidated list of yours or your family's library loans and holds
- Real-time checking by browser
Try it for yourself
- Download the pdf guide Using Library Elf
- Ask a member of staff for your 4 digit PIN number
- Sign Up with Library Elf
- Make sure you set your reminders
- Check out your items
- Let Library Elf do the reminding
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