--- type: Marketing Page title: About us description: 'Who builds Librario and why a library system has its roots in civil engineering: BauCloud GmbH in Munich, since 2013.' resource: https://www.librario.de/en/ueber-uns language: en revision: e114aa541d24c57e452957a2313c85d2014b716b --- # About us About us # One product, one focus: your library. A small team in Munich has been building Librario since 2013, and library software is all it builds. Our story ## Why Librario exists Librario has its roots in civil engineering. Our founder saw early on how much success in that field depends on a firm’s library: anyone designing a complex structure or working on an existing building often needs older specialist books as well as the current standard. They supply the principles and reasoning a calculation rests on. And these holdings are large: a mid-sized engineering firm quickly owns around 5,000 specialist publications, larger firms up to 30,000. That body of knowledge goes unused if nobody can find their way around it. That led to a simple insight. For engineers, planners and researchers, specialist books are real working tools and deserve to be treated as such: maintained, catalogued and easy for the whole team to find. Librario grew out of this observation and has been developed together with practitioners from the start. Two civil engineering companies, [SOFiSTiK](https://www.sofistik.com/en/) and [Tragraum Ingenieure](https://www.tragraum.de) from Nuremberg, have helped shape Librario from the very beginning. Since then it has matured through work with customer teams in other sectors, from medical technology and management consultancies to scientific societies. The goal has stayed the same in every sector: to bring scattered literature sources together in one place, from the book on the shelf to the article in a PDF. Such a library is almost always looked after by a single person, often as one task among many. So above all, Librario has to do two things: automate the routine work, and be usable without onboarding, by that one person and the whole team alike. Developed together with practitioners [![SOFiSTiK](/de/ueber-uns/sofistik-logo.svg) ](https://www.sofistik.com/en/)[![Tragraum Ingenieure](/de/ueber-uns/tragraum-logo.svg) ](https://www.tragraum.de) Our principles ## What we stand for - ### A focused tool We build a library system, and we build it thoroughly. Not a bloated suite in which the library is just one module. - ### In the browser, nothing to install Open your browser, sign in, get to work. Nothing to install and nothing to maintain, on any device. - ### Hosted in the EU Your library’s application, databases and files sit in data centres within the EU. Read the details in the [Trust Center](/en/trust). - ### Built to last More than twelve years of continuous operation. A self-funded company with no sales pressure from investors. Your library stays reliably available. The company ## At a glance Librario is developed and operated by **BauCloud GmbH** , an owner-managed company in business since 2013. You’ll find company details and the commercial register entry in the [Imprint](/en/impressum), and hosting and security in the [Trust Center](/en/trust). ● In continuous operation for more than twelve years Since 2013 ● Registered office and place of jurisdiction in Germany Munich ● No sales pressure from investors Owner-managed ## Get to know Librario See how Librario works day to day, or write to us directly. [Take the product tour](/en/demo)[Get in touch](/en/kontakt) ## Structured data ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","name":"Librario","legalName":"BauCloud GmbH","url":"https://www.librario.de","logo":"https://www.librario.de/a/favicons/apple-touch-icon-42469d8e.png","contactPoint":{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"customer support","email":"info@librario.de"}} ```