About This Template
Athenaeum is a library management dashboard with a deliberately distinctive midnight-library aesthetic — bookshelf-spine navigation and card-catalogue stat drawers — wrapped around a genuinely complete circulation system. It is the most opinionated design in the catalogue and the only one that ships with its own documented design system.
All 26 pages included
Catalogue browsing and individual book detail; Circulation for issues and returns; Members list and member detail; Reservations and holds; Rooms booking; Events programming; Acquisitions for new stock; Fines and payments; Analytics; Staff management; Settings; Login; and a themed lost-page. It also includes a nine-page design-system reference documenting colours, typography, layout, tables, buttons, forms, cards, charts and overlays — useful as living documentation when you extend the template.
Who it is for
Developers building for public libraries, school and university libraries, archives, or any lending operation where items circulate and return. The reservations, fines and acquisitions flows map closely onto tool libraries, equipment loans and media rental too.
Built with
Vue 3 with the Composition API, Vue Router and Vite — and nothing else. No CSS framework and no component library, so the styling is entirely hand-written and there is no Bootstrap or Tailwind to fight when you rebrand it.
The design system
Nine specification pages document every visual decision in the template. If you have ever inherited a theme and had to reverse-engineer its spacing scale from the CSS, this is the antidote — the rules are written down and rendered.
Connecting your own data
The catalogue, member records, active loans and fines ship as sample datasets, so circulation and analytics screens render populated before you connect anything. Every screen is driven by plain JavaScript objects held in the component or a small local module, never by a hidden backend, so there is no framework magic to unpick. Replacing the demo data means swapping those objects for your own fetch or axios calls — the component structure, props and rendering all stay exactly as they are. Because the data layer is deliberately thin, the template works equally well in front of a REST API, a GraphQL endpoint, Firebase, Supabase or your own Node backend.
Responsive and accessible
Every page is laid out for desktop, tablet and mobile, with navigation collapsing to a drawer on small screens. Markup uses semantic elements and labelled form controls, so screen readers and keyboard navigation work sensibly out of the box rather than needing a retrofit.
What you get
The complete, unminified Vue source — components, router, styles and assets — plus the production build, ready to run with npm install and npm run dev. Every purchase includes a lifetime licence to use the template in unlimited personal and commercial projects, including paid client work. You may modify anything you like; you simply may not resell or redistribute the template files themselves. Download links never expire, and future fixes to this template are free. If you need this template adapted to your exact requirements, you can commission changes through our custom request service.