SmartSuite Library
How to search a library catalogue, the SmartSuite Library way
Built for teacher librarians, students, and the entire school community.
Trending titles, librarian picks, curriculum topics. Discovery Search surfaces it all for your students, automatically.
Three ways students find what they need
From auto-surfaced curriculum titles to a simple author search - SmartSuite Library meets students where they are.
Discovery Search
By topic, automatically
Discovery Search auto-surfaces titles by curriculum topic and timely events - National Simultaneous Storytime, NAIDOC Week, Science Week, and more. Students see what's relevant to their year level and the moment.
SmartSearch
By natural-language query
Not keyword matching - SmartSearch understands intent. A student searching "funny dog books year 4" finds the right results every time.
Standard Catalogue Search
By specific title or author
The everyday catalogue lookup. Type a title, author, or ISBN. Done.
A student exploring SmartSuite Library Discovery Search in their school library.
Cataloguing that does the work for you
Search only works when the catalogue is good. SmartSuite Library keeps it that way.
Every book you add gets the right curriculum codes assigned automatically. No manual tagging by your librarian. So when a Year 5 teacher needs resources for light refraction, they don't just search "light" and wade through 200 picture books - they search the actual curriculum outcome and get exactly the titles that match.
For the technically minded
Want the step-by-step?
Read our help-centre walkthrough on searching with SmartSuite Library.
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