This is a weird one that I'm not even sure how to search for.

One of my clients is a satellite university campus, usually supporting about 20 students a semester. They have a small inventory of recording equipment and a few hundred books that they'd like to be able to keep track of and loan out to students. They'd like a system that allows the students to check the inventory online via their computers or phones, AND check those items out.

Does anyone know of a service that does this sort of thing? I'd imagine it would have to be cloud based. I doubt anyone on site would want to support a server that handled this sort of thing, which would be overkill for the small amount of stuff we're talking about.

I suppose the most basic thing would be a giant Google spreadsheet, but that seems inelegant