CLASS-SHELF PLUS

Purpose-built to help school districts navigate classroom library oversight, book challenges, and legislative compliance—quickly, confidently, and transparently.


With increased legislation and rising book challenges, school districts across the country are facing growing demands to audit, approve, and share their classroom library collections. CLCD Class-Shelf Plus is designed to meet this challenge head-on minimizing the burden on educators while ensuring compliance, transparency, and community trust. ​

What Is Class-Shelf Plus?

Class-Shelf Plus is a district-wide classroom collection management system that streamlines how books are uploaded, reviewed, approved, and opened to public view. It is built specifically for the unique pressures schools face today, helping teachers, media specialists, principals, and administrators manage classroom collections collaboratively and efficiently.


With built-in workflows, real-time dashboards, and community-facing transparency, Class-Shelf Plus offers the only end-to-end classroom library management solution designed with legislation, oversight, and book challenges in mind.

How It Works – Fast, Accurate, Automated

Teachers can simply scan a book’s ISBN using their table, phone, or laptop—or upload entire ISBN lists. CLCD then auto-populates each title with:

- Professional reviews

- Award history

- Reading levels and program alignment

- Age-appropriateness data (based on 8 independent parameters)

This information flows into an approval dashboard shared with media specialists, principals, or district admins, who can then review titles in real time. Once approved, books are made visible to students and optionally to the public via community-facing access pages.

Pending or unapproved titles are automatically held back—ensuring control and compliance at every stage.

AI-Powered Traffic Light Risk Rating

Class-Shelf Plus includes CLCD’s exclusive AI-powered Traffic Light Risk Rating system, which:

- Auto-tags over 95% of classroom collections as safe for approval

- Flags titles requiring further review (Yellow) or discussion (Red)

- Saves valuable review time by reducing manual effort to less than 5%

Combined with detailed metadata and review history, this tool equips districts with a defensible and efficient process for policy compliance and challenge readiness.

Role-Based Dashboards & Secure Access

Every stakeholder has access to a role-specific dashboard:

Teachers can upload, view, and manage their classroom titles

- Media Specialists and Principles can review pending items, approve or reject titles, and open collections for community access

- Distict Administrators can review real-time status for each school or classroom, change approval policies or allow district wide approval lists

- Parents and the Public can view only approved titles, supporting transparency and communication without exposing unfinished lists

All interactions are logged in an audit trail, providing clear documentation of every action taken on every title.

Why Districts Choose Class-Shelf Plus

- Supports community transparency without overburdening staff

Streamlines compliance with new state-level legislation

Automates review using trusted CLCD content and AI tools

Enhances collaboration across schools, roles, and classrooms

Prevents disputes by providing objective, data-backed insights

Protects classroom time by reducing administrative overhead

Powered by the CLCD Universe

Class-Shelf Plus is built on CLCD’s trusted PreK–12 content database platform, featuring:

1.2 million+ titles

630,000+ professional reviews

125,000 award-winning books

Reading level and age-appropriateness ratings

Community-ready book detail displays

All matched titles in Class-Shelf Plus link directly to the full title records within their account for deeper review.