Every study room, live.
Study-room availability, event programming, new-acquisition showcases and multi-language information across every library floor.
Libraries still anchor their communities. Signage is how the building tells you so.
A public library in 2026 is a study hub, an event venue, a children's-reading anchor, a digital-literacy classroom and a community-noticeboard — all in one building. Academic and research libraries add 24/7 study-room booking, subject-liaison appointments, and new-acquisition research showcases. Static corkboards and printed event flyers can't keep pace with any of it. Hangar.Media connects to your room-booking system, your event calendar and your catalogue so every screen — entrance, reading rooms, children's zone, research wing — surfaces the right information in the right language.
Built for how libraries actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
The group room on floor 2, booked until 4pm.
Study-room door screens and floor-plate overviews surface live booking status — free / booked / ends-in countdown. Students studying alone in a full library see at a glance which group rooms become free next. Reception staff stop answering 'is room 3 available?' every ten minutes. Integrates with 25Live (higher-ed), EMS, Roomz, and standard iCal for public libraries.
Students find the next-free room without asking. Reception answers real questions again.
- 25Live, EMS, Roomz and iCal integration with sub-minute sync
- Per-door room status with ends-in countdown
- Floor-plate overview showing next-available rooms across the building
- Accessibility-routing for wheelchair-accessible and hearing-loop rooms
Saturday's children's-reading, Wednesday's adult-literacy class.
Event-programme boards at entrance, lounge and children's-area screens surface the week's programmes with countdown-to-start, sign-up QR and age / interest targeting. Public libraries running 30+ programmes a week see attendance climb noticeably when programmes are visible to walk-ins, not just email-subscribers.
A walk-in family discovers tomorrow's reading time from the lobby screen.
- Event-calendar integration with iCal, Eventbrite and custom library-event systems
- Per-area content zoning (children's programmes in children's area, adult-lit in adult area)
- Sign-up QR overlays for capacity-limited events
- Multi-language programme descriptions for diverse catchment areas
The new books. This week. Before the catalogue search.
New-acquisition walls rotate through recent additions with cover image, author, Dewey or subject classification and shelf-location. Browsers who came for one thing leave with three because the screen showed what landed this week. Integrates with common library-management systems (SirsiDynix, Ex Libris Alma, Koha, FOLIO) for live catalogue sync.
Discovery happens at the screen. The catalogue search is for when you already know.
- SirsiDynix, Ex Libris Alma, Koha, FOLIO ILS integration
- New-acquisition feeds by collection, subject or reading level
- Featured-author and featured-theme rotation with librarian curation
- QR-overlay for request-hold or shelf-location lookup
The information desk, in every language that uses it.
Public libraries serve linguistically diverse communities — a London borough library might need content in English, Bengali, Urdu, Polish, Portuguese, Somali, Turkish. Hangar.Media defaults to multi-language rotation on entrance and information-desk screens, with language selection driven by your community-demographic data or by visitor-app signal. Print-only pamphlets don't reach the users who need the information most.
The library speaks the languages of the street it stands on.
- 12+ language playback with per-community default selection
- Digital-inclusion and digital-literacy content in community languages
- New-citizen / welcome-to-the-area content for high-immigration areas
- Audio-description and subtitle options for accessibility
Story time. Colour-coded. Age-appropriate.
Children's-area screens default to age-appropriate content curation — phonics-of-the-day for under-5s, reading-recommendation for primary-age, picture-book illustrations for story-time, summer-reading challenge tracking. Content-filter policies and safeguarding-first defaults apply. Parents and carers see programmed events; kids see colour and familiar characters.
Children's area feels like a children's area. Not an adult lobby with kids in it.
- Age-appropriate content curation (under-5, primary, tween, teen)
- Summer-reading challenge tracking and shelf-prompts
- Safeguarding-first defaults with content-policy enforcement
- Phonics, picture-book and story-time content library
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Welcome, events and today's programmes
Large-format entrance screens with today's events, new-acquisition rotation and multi-language welcome messaging for diverse communities.
Live room-status boards
Per-door screens with booking status, ends-in countdown, accessibility indicators and tap-to-book for on-the-spot reservations.
Focus-mode content and silent notices
Reading-room-adjacent screens with quiet-respecting content (slow rotation, no sound), library-hours reminders and silent announcement overlays.
Age-appropriate programming and stories
Children's-area screens with story-time schedules, reading-challenge tracking, age-appropriate content and picture-book illustration rotation.
Acquisition showcases and subject guides
Research-wing screens with subject-liaison appointment availability, new-acquisition academic rotation and research-guide promotion.
Local-government and community content
Community-notice-board screens with local-council events, civic information, voter-registration reminders and partner-organisation content.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones libraries operators reach for first.
25Live
Higher-ed and public-library room-booking with sub-minute sync.
Learn More →EMS
Event-management and room-scheduling for library programmes.
Learn More →Multi-Language News
Language-routed news for diverse community libraries.
Learn More →Building Directory
Multi-floor library wayfinding with accessibility routing.
Learn More →Library-event and new-acquisition social feeds.
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which library-management systems do you integrate with?
SirsiDynix Symphony and Horizon, Ex Libris Alma and Primo, Koha, FOLIO, Innovative Sierra and OCLC WorldShare. For room booking we integrate with 25Live, EMS, Roomz and standard iCal feeds. Event calendars integrate with Eventbrite and custom library-event systems. Integration is included in the flat per-screen price.
How do you handle safeguarding in the children's area?
Children's-area screens default to age-appropriate content curation policies enforced at the platform level — pre-approved content libraries only, no ad-content, no external video feeds. Safeguarding-first defaults apply: no named children ever appear, photography follows your library's consent policy, content-filter audit log is available for trust-wide / local-authority review.
Can we run different content per community language?
Yes. Language-rotation defaults are configurable per library branch based on community demographic data — a Tower Hamlets branch library might default to English + Bengali + Sylheti + Somali, a Manchester branch might run English + Urdu + Polish + Arabic. Hangar.Media ships with 12+ language content libraries covering common community-information needs (digital literacy, new-citizen, local-services).
What do public library authorities pay?
£5 per screen per month, flat. A 40-library borough network running 6 screens per branch (entrance, study-rooms, children's, reading rooms) pays £1,200 per month for software. For an academic research library with 30 public-area screens, monthly spend is £150. Every integration, every language-pack, safeguarding-audit-log export, no public-sector premium.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in libraries frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Universities
Lecture-theatre door signage and campus-wide wayfinding.
SchoolsSchools
Timetable door signs, safeguarding messaging and corridor noticeboards.
Community CentresCommunity Centres
Event calendars and multi-language outreach for civic spaces.
MuseumsMuseums
Gallery labels, exhibit interpretation and multi-language visitor info.
One price. The whole platform.
That's how we think signage should work. Content editor, screen management, and 200+ app integrations — all included from day one.