The National Judicial Council needed an e-library solution to manage electronic contents relating to the organization and also management of the physical library. NJC faced issues arising from limited space available in their physical library, hence Libtech was contracted to deploy an electronic shelf to tackle the problem of space. We deployed a mobile shelf e-library that serves the NJC members to optimize their limited space. Other services offered were library automation, Integration of their resources and Integration into legal databases. The NJC’s e-library was designed to provide the council member with access to a wide range of legal resources and information with specific features varying according to the functionality and internal processes of the commission.

Overall, Libtech hardware feature which is the mobile shelf to optimize their limited space and software features which includes:

User management

• Members and staff can register on the platform online and seamlessly
• Users access to thousands of digital resources ebooks and journals (free and subscription)
• Access to Nigeria weekly law reports
• ActiveShelf with a discovery service/unified search interface which allows users to query several databases on one search interface. books and journals and get results 

Cataloging

• Cataloging module is used for creating metadata (Bibliographic information) for the resources in the library adhering to the cataloging standards. Activeshelf supports MARC 21 cataloging standards for creating metadata records.
• The cataloging module enables Z39.50 SRU/URL search; this protocol allows the cataloging librarian to query other library databases to fetch metadata information on a particular information resource and add it to their library. This helps to reduce the time spent entering the bibliographic details manually, which can be very tedious.
• The cataloging module also allows for manual cataloging entry, This process is used when the librarian in charge of cataloging can’t find the metadata of the book after querying using the Z39.50 SRU option.
• It allows for importing and exporting MARC 21 records in bulk from other sources in and out of the library system.

Circulation

• The process involves checking out library materials to users that will be automated.
• The activities comprises of borrowing and returning of books seamlessly
• The circulation module aids the management of checking out (lending) and checking in (returning) of library materials.
• The automated system sends email to borrowers to alert (via email) them when their loan is due