You went to library school because you believed in what happens when the right book finds the right kid. That spark of recognition. That first chapter that won’t let go.
Now you’re spending hours creating a single book order — manually searching review sites, cross-referencing news articles, checking content advisories, emailing committee members who never respond.
The mission that brought you to this profession is still there. It’s just buried under paperwork that never existed five years ago.
The Shift
Book Intelligence aggregates everything publicly known about a book — professional reviews, awards, ratings, content advisories, news coverage, community discussion — and organizes it into a single intelligence profile for every title.
No more spending an hour per title searching across six different websites. No more copying and pasting from review sites into a spreadsheet. The intelligence is compiled, cited, and ready for your professional judgment.
You still make every decision. Book Intelligence gives you the information to make those decisions in minutes instead of hours.
Your Day With Bookmarked
Flagged titles, pending committee reviews, new intelligence alerts — all in one place. No digging through email threads. No spreadsheet that three people edited at once.
When you pull up a title, the intelligence profile is already there — what professional reviewers say, what awards it has won, what content advisories exist. You bring your expertise. Bookmarked brings the data.
A parent calls about a title. Instead of “let me research that and get back to you,” you pull up the intelligence profile, the committee’s review history, and the decision record — while you’re still on the phone.
The book order that used to take 3 hours? Done in 30 minutes. The board report that meant staying late? It generates itself. The summer reading list? You’re building it in February, not scrambling in May.
How It Works
Book Intelligence gathers and organizes everything publicly available about a book — the same sources you would research yourself, compiled in seconds:
Leading professional review journals, award databases, and state-level recommended lists. The reviews and recognition data you would check anyway — already compiled, organized, and linked to their original sources.
Publisher-provided content notes, age and grade recommendations, and publicly available advisory information. The full advisory landscape for each title, compiled and cited with links to original sources.
What is being discussed about a title — news coverage, challenge history, community discourse. If a book is generating attention in other districts, you will know before a parent mentions it.
Your expertise is the final layer. Book Intelligence gives you the research foundation. You apply your training, your knowledge of your students, and your professional judgment.
What Districts Are Saying
“Bookmarked restores librarians to their true role — curating collections and guiding students — instead of drowning them in compliance paperwork.”Dr. Bobby Ott
“As a parent, I now see conversations happening between families and librarians that were not possible before. Parents are actually excited about what their kids are reading.”Amanda Izzard
We know librarians don’t usually sign the purchase order. But the best implementations start with a librarian who decides enough is enough.