How Infiniti‘s AI Smart Search Assistant turns “sunami” into the right books
In a typical school library management system, a mistyped search or a vague search term often leads to an empty results page and a disappointed student. Infiniti takes a different approach with its AI Smart Search Assistant, designed to understand what students intend to find rather than what they actually type.
When a student searches for “sunami” or “tidal wave”, Infiniti automatically interprets those as part of the broader “tsunamis” concept and returns relevant print and digital resources – no error messages, no extra clicks. The same intelligent matching applies to non-English words and everyday phrases that don’t match formal subject headings, helping every learner get to useful content faster.
A Smart School Library Management System that understands intent
Behind the scenes, the AI Mentor tools – the AI Metadata Editor and AI Metadata Search Assistant – allow librarians to link real search behaviour (misspellings, slang, other languages) to high-quality MARC21 authority data without compromising cataloguing standards. Once trained, the AI Assistant applies that intent across the whole catalogue, so existing and newly catalogued titles are automatically surfaced when students use those search terms.
The result is a library catalogue that behaves more like a modern, intent-aware search engine: higher search success rates, fewer failed searches and far less “I can’t find anything on this topic” at the enquiry desk.
For busy school and college libraries, that means more independent, confident searching and more time spent reading and researching instead of wrestling with the library management system.
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If you’d like to see what this looks like in practice, try typing “tidal wave” or “sunami” into your current LMS – then compare it with the same searches in an Infiniti demo. You can learn more about our best-in-class Infiniti LMS and award-winning virtual learning add-on LibPaths by downloading our school library brochure, and remember to ask about our Infiniti Referral Rewards scheme.