Under the recommendation from National Library Board of Singapore (NLB), ST LogiTrack Pte Ltd was contracted to design, supply and install an Electronics Library Management System (ELiMS®) for Singapore Management University (SMU).

Established in January 2000 as Singapore's third and newest university, SMU offers full-time Bachelor courses to both local and oversea students with the objectives to in develop well-rounded students with the ability to focus on specialised careers.

ELiMS® is now being deployed in their interim campus at Evans road and will move to Bukit Timah campus by August 2001. The university is expecting its 7.76ha City Campus to be ready in 2005, where a much bigger library will be build for its students. They predicted that by then, the collections and the library material transaction volume would increase by many folds.

With the automating of the library operations with ELiMS®, SMU finds that the flow of library materials is managed more effectively. At the same time, some library staff can be freed to provide value-added services such as membership registration, answer queries and helping students find the library materials of their choice.

ELiMS® is a proven RFID-based system that has been deployed by NLB to automate and manage its libraries since 1997.