For a library or bookshop, the catalog is made of books. Your concierge can find them by title, author, ISBN or physical location, answer from the bibliographic information you keep, and help visitors find what they need without making them decode a shelf system.
Each book can carry its author, ISBN, publisher, publication year, genre, language, format, series and volume, alongside stock, a four-part location — place, room, shelf, rack — and independent out and lost statuses.
For your customers
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Find a book | Searches by title, author, ISBN and location fields to find books that match what the reader is looking for. |
| Book details | Answers from the catalog's bibliographic fields: author, publisher, year, genre, language, format, series and volume. |
| Where to find it | Gives the recorded place, room, shelf and rack when the book has a known location. |
| Availability | Uses the catalog's stock and shelf-status information, so a book that is out or lost is not presented as sitting on its shelf. |
For you
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Add books your way | Send a typed list, CSV file or shelf photo from the owner chat. Lists and CSVs are drafted for CONFIRM; photos are reviewed one book at a time so a misread spine is never bulk-imported. |
| Set shelf locations | A photo caption records place, room, shelf and rack. Commas preserve multi-word values, and a caption can instead mark every pictured book as out, borrowed, back or returned. |
| Track books off the shelf | OUT and IN mark a titled book away from or back at its location; LOST and FIND set or clear its independent lost status. These exact opposite commands apply immediately. |
| Search the full catalog | Use SEARCH with a title, author, location or field filters such as author: Eco. Up to 100 matches return in full; larger results tell you how to narrow them. |
| Edit a book safely | Ask to change a stored field and confirm the staged edit. Request a title change explicitly: importing the corrected title would create a second book instead. |
Library and bookshop tools are category-specific. If they are unavailable, check that the intended business is selected and classified as a library or bookshop.
Everything else, included
On top of the capabilities above, this business type gets the core set every Yims.ai business gets: opening hours, review search, your own notes, photos, directions, customer memory and live handover to you.