As well as automating traditional library functions such as circulation, cataloguing, public access, acquisitions, and serials control, Spydus includes facilities for inter-library loans, selection, stock rotation, newspaper indexes, homebound borrowers, archives, self-service and data loading. In addition to managing bibliographic data, Spydus caters for multimedia collections, community information, historical archives and artefacts, and abstracts or full text management.

State-of-the-art technology: A high performance library management system, with modern capabilities built from long experience, Spydus provides an end-to-end solution that is easy to deploy, manage and use.

The most powerful and flexible search engine: At the heart of Spydus is its indexing and retrieval engine. Based on specialised indexing technology, the Spydus engine is optimised for delivering high performance data merge and join operations ensuring both precision and recall.

Innovation: Civica’s culture of ongoing innovation ensures that Spydus remains at the forefront of library services, extending far beyond the scope of traditional library management systems. Customers can focus around a complete set of capabilities that equal the very best today and in the future, delivered by a “single source” provider, whether for affordable Self Service solutions, electronic payments, resource bookings, collection development or RFID solutions.