Batch generate consistent file names for your sets of orchestral parts from instrumentation. Customize file names using flexible templates to incorporate fields such as composer, orchestrator, arranger, title, edition, and a variety of numbering systems. Search Daniels Orchestral Music Online or ArtsVision and pull work information into your file names.
Streamline your production workflow by processing all your parts at once with batch cropping and rotating for PDF files. This powerful tool enables you to adjust multiple files in a single action, saving you time and ensuring uniformity across your entire set of orchestral parts.
Organize your files with our intuitive page management tools. Add front covers and blank pages to facilitate convenient page turns, and use both custom and pre-defined templates to tailor the layout to your precise specifications. You can now convert images into PDF pages, insert pages using your custom templates, and duplicate existing pages with ease.
Add part numbers to your wind, brass, and percussion parts, and print desk numbers on your string parts. Enjoy full flexibility in customizing the appearance and positioning of numbers, deciding which pages to display them on, and when totals should appear.
Experience seamless print management with our "fire and forget" print runs for your sets of parts. Whether you need simple single-sided prints or advanced layouts like Accordion Folds and Booklets with foldout pages, our system handles it all with ease. Once set up, you can trust that your print runs will be executed to your specification, giving you the freedom to focus on other critical tasks.
The Orchestra Librarian’s Toolkit is designed for ultimate flexibility, featuring a wealth of settings to customize your library's digital workflow. Benefit from sensible defaults that provide an effective starting point, while also offering the flexibility to adapt to your specific needs. Enjoy faster and more efficient task completion, freeing you to focus on enhancing your music library.
Introducing the Orchestra Librarian’s Toolkit — your essential companion for efficient music preparation. Designed with a comprehensive feature set, this toolkit transforms labour-intensive tasks into swift, manageable processes. Naming file sets, adding desk or part numbers, fixing pagination, as well as cropping, rotating, and printing parts, are accomplished in mere seconds. Save valuable time and streamline your orchestra’s sheet music preparation with the Orchestra Librarian’s Toolkit.
I'm a musician and software developer with a decade of experience as a music librarian. After teaching myself to code, I pursued a master's degree in Software Development and now work as a Senior Developer at Theta Systems. Orchestra Librarian's Toolkit (OLTK) is my passion project, and I'm thrilled to share it with you all.
"OLTK is a brilliant piece of software - thanks to the developer's history as an orchestra librarian, it's designed with the unique requirements of the job in mind. Using OLTK to batch-process pdf files saves me and my team hours every week. From cropping and rotating after scanning, through renaming files according to a given instrumentation in one click, to sending complex print-runs to the printer, we save time at every step of handling the file. Tech support from the developer is responsive and proactive, which also helps on the rare occasion we find a bug. As a professional orchestra librarian, I can't recommend this software highly enough."
"OLTK is the file-naming, batch-printing, all-singing, all-dancing orchestra library specific file management app you always wished for. Created by an orchestra librarian, who knows what you need, it is clever, customisable and easy to use. With additional API's it links to Arts Vision and Daniels Online, and has streamlined our processes for file naming, batch printing and distribution. Now I can't imagine working without it. Yes this sounds like an AI-produced gushing review, but that's because OLTK is actually amazing."
"We used OLTK on our library for many things, from changing file names to number the different parts. It's a great time saver, due to its stability cleanness."
"OLTK has saved our library team countless hours every time its used. I estimate between 1-4 hours saved (depending on how big the piece is!) on each set that needs bulk labeling of files, bulk cropping and rotating of files and streamlining the printing process. Easy to use, I couldn't imagine managing our library without this now."
"Complete gamechanger for orchestra librarians"
"This app is so carefully designed specifically for the needs of orchestra librarians by someone who clearly knows our needs. So many of the slowest and most annoying parts of computer wrangling are solved in a single click to your exact specifications. I couldn't imagine going back to adding in file names manually now."
