# LibraryWorld Reviews **Vendor:** Library World **Category:** [Library Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/library-management-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About LibraryWorld LibraryWorld is a web-based library management system that allows you to create your library site, build your collection with applications to help you manage your collection and help it grow. ## LibraryWorld Reviews ### 1. LibraryWorld Works Well **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** Simplicity; cost; ease of use. It does exactly what it says it will, very efficiently. Customer support is also solid. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** Inputting serials is a bit clunky, but now we have no current print serials, so problem solved? **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps my print collection catalog tidy at minimal cost. It's not over-engineered and we aren't paying for slick advertising etc. ### 2. Library World is great. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda Y. | English Second Language Teacher, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** Very affordable price, you can have ample access to various resources that we could not even dream of. You can import records from the standard MARC format, manually enter the records or extract records from one of the many online resources, collecting information from anywhere is easy. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I don't like that I can't eliminate all charges at once, there are some reports that I would like to run that are not offered. The "newly added titles" home screen helps little, since **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** I would recommend this program for libraries because of its ease of use and its ability to maintain accurate records, it is by far the easiest and easiest to use of all the library automation programs I looked at. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great program for our district to have in all areas, this allows us to keep more accurate inventory counts and deeper cataloging records, work in a high school and do not solve business problems. ### 3. LibraryWorld Review. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily A. | Library Aide, Libraries, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** Collection of information from anywhere is easy. It price is affordable and anybody can access it. It is also very easy to use, user friendly. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I don't dislike it, i actually love it service. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** I recommend this software. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** With this application cataloging is pretty much easy. Acquisitions and managing is well catered for by this software. ### 4. Good start up software in small to medium libray **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2019 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** It has all the necessary features to automate a small to medium library, to catalog, classify, circulation **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** It's very feasible in a large library like university **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** Good to use in small to medium library it's very effective **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it sometime back to automate a special library ### 5. Library World is a great service for the people I met first in my life. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2018 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** I like that for good price I can have vast access to various resources that I even could not dream of I like best about this Library that the catalog module provides for the creation and updating of catalog and holding records. You can import records from standard MARC format, hand enter records, or pull records from one of many online resources, including our Z39.50 connection to the Library of Congress. The Z39.50 protocal can also be used by client applications to search your own library in a vendor independent manner. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I do not dislike this site . It is great as a scholar for me it is important to read a lot and even create my own library . This site is along with my scholarly purpose.For a person who does not live in USA it is bit expensive but overall I see that using this site Library World is great experience for me. I wish every scholar use it for various buisness. I know that it may have some shortcomings but overall it is great. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** I recommend to people this site because it as everything you dreamt of as a scholar. I think that this Library World is a good system to use and very comfortable. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solve a lot of buisness problems. I do not need to buy every book now and then as everything is online, About 500000 different resources that I desperately need in my specaility. I know that this library system include medical,law and other important subects for many speciality. I wish everyone to use this Library System for improving knowledge in area one is interested in. ### 6. Makes library processing simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** I like that the page is easy to navigate. You can search the catalog easily and help find an item for a patron. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I dislike that you can’t remove charges all at once. You have to do each one individually. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work at a lending library and we use this software for our books. It is simple and easy to train new employees on. ### 7. library world reveiw **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2019 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** I like the catalog and inventory module the best because you can add one or more copies to specific catalog records and with the inventory module gives you feedback instantly. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** There is nothing that I dislike about library world at this time. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** none ### 8. LibraryWorld does all the work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** LibraryWorld is very easy to use. Reports are simple and quick. Collection information is easy to check from anywhere. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** There are some reports that I would like to run that aren’t offered. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping kids find the books they want to read. Adding information about newly acquired books so users can find them. ### 9. Most pleased with the product and with the support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** It is user friendly and the support, which I seldom need, is so helpful. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** Only thing I dislike is I cannot create a list of books a specific student has signed out in the past. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** It is by far the easiest and most user friendly of all the library automation programs I looked at. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in a high school and I don't solve business problems. Benefits are that it is so easy to keep students in books. ### 10. Libraryworld **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sundus J. | Researcher, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** It is very simple to use and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** Have to check in each book manually and can't select all. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping the library organized and sending out overdue notices. ### 11. Good product with good support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2017 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** This system was very easy to use. It was easy to navigate. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I didn't like the speed and movement of the page. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** none **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are checking books out at a college. ### 12. Daily use in a small library **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** It's easy to operate. Self-cataloging into the system makes it easy to itemize the texts by course number and independent tags in the comments section. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** Super simplistic design with limited input by the holding library. Home screen of "newly added titles" does little to help since it's 10 titles at a time and you have to scroll through pages of records. Search function is horrible -- does not accept misspellings, limited search terms, or ISBN numbers. Inventory reports are more complicated than they should be for such a small online repository. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previous records were housed in a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet -- this allows us to keep more accurate inventory counts and more in-depth cataloging records. ### 13. Library World Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda K. | Area Manager, Libraries, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2015 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** I find the program to be very user friendly. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** Recently we have had issues with Library World pulling up a different number than what is on the barcode. This could be a scanner issue, though. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** A very user friendly program. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** No business problems. It is a great program for our district to have across the board. It is also helpful that LMS has admistrative rights to assist us. ### 14. As a circulation program, Library World is great. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2015 **What do you like best about LibraryWorld?** It is a good program for what it is needed for. It maintains accurate circulation records as well as financial responsibility for late returns. It is fast and easy to use. **What do you dislike about LibraryWorld?** I wish it gave me the ability to preset which parts of a Marc record I want to delete, so I wouldn't have to do it for every record. Also, when printing class records, they only print correctly using certain browsers. They aren't compatible with every browser. **Recommendations to others considering LibraryWorld:** I would recommend this program for libraries because of it's ease of use and it's ability to maintain accurate records. **What problems is LibraryWorld solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a school librarian that sees about 1100 children regularly. This program allows me to maintain accurate records without worry. Library World is also easy to use. ## LibraryWorld Discussions - [What is LibraryWorld used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-libraryworld-used-for) - [View LibraryWorld pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/libraryworld/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-09+10%3A20%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1c4612fe-0c4b-4761-9b68-5c77d90a96b0&secure%5Btoken%5D=4f94b5b8a53de61ef61b1da0d7fb9a10d630d97ab4f8f9e65af8f34dc938a6ba&format=llm_user) ## Top LibraryWorld Alternatives - [Follett Destiny Library Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/follett-software-follett-destiny-library-manager/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (430 reviews) - [Apollo ILS/LSP](https://www.g2.com/products/apollo-ils-lsp/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (46 reviews) - [Koha](https://www.g2.com/products/koha/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (11 reviews)