Why Abraquest?

Abraquest has been developed over the past fifteen years as a result of experience of hundreds of schools.

AbraQuest is for non-fiction and fiction books as well as any non-book material.

AbraQuest is available as a fully serviced package or self service:

Full service: price valid for schools within approximately 1 hour travel time from AbraQuest address. The service includes Maeve Denny coming to your school and carrying out the cataloguing and inputting of your books for you on site. Additional travelling costs/expenses may apply to schools outside this area.
Self-Service: inputting your books into the new system will be carried out by your staff.

Benefits	Full Service	Self Service
Save Time
Electronic management of your library	Yes	Yes
On site classifying	Yes	No
On site cataloguing	Yes	No
On site spine Labelling	Yes	No
Insertion of pupil names in Abraquest	Yes	No
Arranging on shelves	Yes	No
Fulfil requirements of the National Curriculum
Support material	Yes	Yes
Evidence the use of the library
Abraquest keeps accurate records of book usage by pupils	Yes	Yes
User / child friendly
AbraQuest was developed with the view to make its use easy for all	Yes	Yes
Needs minimum teacher input	Yes	Yes
Installed on your PC for you	Yes	No
Initial data input done for you	Yes	No
Provides reliable backup facilities	Yes	Yes

Features	Full Service	Self Service
Materials Supplied
Abraquest installation disk	Yes	Yes
Stationery starter pack: Barcodes, printer labels, alpha labels and label protectors	Yes	Yes
Other on-site services provided
Free training	Yes	No (user manual provided)
Stock Control
Classifies and catalogues your stock	Yes	Yes
Monitors and tracks your stock	Yes	Yes
Prints out spine labels for your stock	Yes	Yes
Service Management
Issues books to pupils quickly and easily	Yes	Yes
Facilitates use of information skills	Yes	Yes
Makes statistics and analysis easy	Yes	Yes
Produces pupil reading records quickly	Yes	Yes
Shows pupil reading patterns	Yes	Yes