One click. Any webpage.
Straight into your library catalogue.
FSI WebCat is a Chrome extension exclusively for SmartSuite Library schools. Add any webpage to your school catalogue without leaving the page. No copy-pasting URLs. No switching tabs. No manual data entry. Free with your SmartSuite Library subscription.
Made for the browser tab where you already work.
Every teacher-librarian has been there. You find a brilliant article, a government resource, a news story, a research database, a maker-space video. You want it in the catalogue so students can find it later. But adding a web resource used to mean copying the URL, switching tabs, opening the catalogue, pasting, typing a title, typing a description, tagging subjects. Every add was a five-minute detour. WebCat makes it one click.
One click. Browsing to catalogued.
Find a page worth cataloguing. Click the WebCat icon. Hit Add. The whole thing takes about five seconds.
Click the extension.
WebCat's intelligence reads the page and extracts all the metadata, pre-filling all the necessary fields for a fully qualified catalogue record.
Hit "Add to My SmartSuite Library."
WebCat will create a brand new catalogue record and push all of the metadata to your SmartSuite Library. One click - faster than a SCIS catalogue.
Metadata, pre-filled. No typing required.
WebCat reads the metadata already embedded in the webpage and fills in every field of your catalogue record. Review it, tweak it if you want, or just add and move on.
Title.
Pulled from the page's own title tag.
URL.
The exact page you're viewing.
Author.
Pulled from the page's metadata where the publisher has set it.
Subject keywords.
Pulled from the page's metadata, ready to be edited or expanded before saving.
Description.
A short summary pulled from the page's metadata, ready for you to review or replace.
Manage more than one library? Switch with a dropdown.
If your role covers more than one school, WebCat lets you pick which SmartSuite Library catalogue you're adding to from a simple dropdown. Consortium coordinators, dioceses, and shared-service librarians can catalogue across every school they support without logging in and out.
4 schools in your network
No personal data collected.
WebCat does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. No user profiles. No browsing history.
Data goes to your server only.
The only data WebCat handles is the metadata of the page you're actively cataloguing. That data goes directly to your own school's SmartSuite Library server. Nowhere else.
No analytics. No tracking. No third-party sharing.
WebCat has zero analytics, zero tracking pixels, and zero third-party data sharing of any kind.
Zero tracking. Zero third-party data. Your data goes to your server.
WebCat does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. It reads only the title, URL, description, author, and keyword metadata of the current page, and sends that data directly to your own school's SmartSuite Library server. Nowhere else. No analytics. No tracking. No third-party data sharing.
WebCat is only for SmartSuite Library schools.
No other Australian or New Zealand school library platform offers one-click web cataloguing from your browser. WebCat is built on the same platform that powers Circulation, ACARA-Sync, SmartSearch, Discovery, Interlibrary Loans, and Print Studio. Every feature works together, every day, in every SmartSuite Library subscription. That's the power of SmartSuite Library.
FSI WebCat - FAQs
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Install WebCat. Catalogue in a click.
Free with every SmartSuite Library subscription. Available now on the Chrome Web Store.