Bhavan's Tripura Vidyamandir is an English-medium school run under Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at Bimangarh, Narsingarh, about 15 km from Agartala. It teaches from Preparatory I (LKG) to Class XII and states that it is affiliated to CBSE. The website Meta Mint built, bhavanstripura.com, is not a general school site: it is the school library's online home.
The challenge
A school library is only useful if children know what is on its shelves and want to come back. The principal's message on the site says plainly that it was created to help children develop an interest in reading, so the website had to behave less like a noticeboard and more like a place to browse.
That meant several practical needs. Pupils and teachers need to look up a title before walking to the library. The collection spans story books, biographies, science and arts titles, so it must be grouped in a way a young reader can follow. Reading also happens beyond the printed book: magazines, NCERT texts, audio stories and past question papers all belong in the same place. And the library's own activities, such as reading contests, need somewhere to be announced.
Our solution
Meta Mint built a catalogue-driven library website with reader accounts, rather than a set of static pages.
- Searchable book catalogue. A title search in the header and a paginated book list, grouped into categories such as Story, Bio-sketch, Science and Arts and Recreation, with each record showing its ISBN and publisher.
- Reader accounts. Visitors can sign up and log in, and add titles to a cart from the catalogue.
- Virtual and audio library. Curated links to children's magazines such as Dimdima, Tinkle and Champak, Hindi reading, NCERT books, newspapers and video stories, with separate Audio Library, E-Book, Syllabus and Question Paper sections.
- Library notice board. Announcements for activities such as a book cover design contest, a bookmark-making contest and a story-twisting competition.
- Reading culture. A Most Viewed Books strip, an introduction to S. R. Ranganathan's five laws of library science, a blog, FAQs and photo and video galleries.
How we delivered it
The site uses clean, readable addresses such as /books/listing, /all-notices and /gallery/images, and book records are drawn from a database with category counts and sorting by newest or oldest. Images are served from cloud storage and the site runs over HTTPS. The footer credits Meta Mint Pvt. Ltd. as developer.
