For libraries who outgrew the ILS special-collections module.
Public, academic, and specialist libraries use Archively.AI for the work an ILS was never built for: archival arrangement, AI-assisted description of born-digital material, and finding-aid publication.
- Starts at
- 1 tenant
- ILS sync
- MARC21 · OAI-PMH
- Patron portal
- Optional
What you'll actually do with it.
Concrete use cases — not generic pitch bullets.
Catalog a manuscript collection without rebuilding the ILS.
Stand up a proper archival catalog alongside your ILS — without forcing manuscripts into bibliographic records.
Publish a finding aid for researchers.
Arrange into fonds, write contextual notes, and export to EAD or a web-ready finding aid — no XML required.
Digitize and describe born-digital donations.
Bulk upload, run OCR and transcription, review AI-drafted descriptions, publish.
Sync with your ILS nightly.
MARC21 authority sync for creators. Live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for your discovery layer — harvest by collection or entire repository.
Enable patron self-service.
Spin up a public portal per collection — search, browse, and request reproduction without staff lookups.
Report to funders and donors.
Dashboard with processing throughput, usage statistics, and collection growth for annual reports.
Northbridge Medical Society Papers
The flagship demo: a fully-populated special-collections archive of a fictional 1891 medical society, through the 1918 pandemic response and a 1941 anniversary exhibition. Use it to evaluate ISAD(G) description, AI-drafted scope notes, entity highlighting, track-changes diffs, and ARK identifiers on publish.
- Items
- 15
- People
- 7
- ARKs minted
- 11
Recommended modules
Where most of the work happens for your type of institution.
Start with one collection. See it working.
We'll help you scope a pilot that proves the value inside six weeks.