Miss Honey wants to add some new titles to the library, but she needs more data to know how she can expand and improve the library’s collection. Did you know that Alexandria is partnered with Perma-Bound, and you can upload your collection to be analyzed for free?
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Miss Honey wants to create a search string to highlight the ghost stories in the library for Halloween, but she doesn’t remember how. It’s not scary! Here’s how to use advanced search to generate search strings to be used as the basis for Explore buttons, slideshows, links and more.
The library is all decked out for Halloween, and Miss Honey wants to make Researcher match using the new custom Researcher styles. Have you tried it out yet?
Miss Honey wants to spread the word about the new library book club. She made a bulletin board, but how can she get more students and teachers to see it? With a link!
Is your school is part of a centralized union? You can create specific site sets for searching purposes (like putting all the elementary school libraries in a set). That way, students can search all available elementary school catalogs in the district, and utilize ILL (Inter-Library Loans). Let’s go over how to set this up!
Miss Honey is looking at an item record in Alexandria, and she notices that the listed Title Call Number at the top is different than the Copy Call Number in the Copies tab. Let’s review call numbers, and how title and copy call numbers operate in Alexandria.
Miss Honey saw the notice on the support center that we’ve updated our default z39.50 servers. Before she adds some new items into Alexandria, she needs to update her preferences. Let’s walk through it.
Miss Miss Honey just set some new policies for her library, but she doesn’t remember how to assign them. Policies are important because they establish rules that regulate how library resources are used by your patrons. But how can you assign them once they are created?
Miss Honey just manually updated her patrons for the new school year, and it took awhile… Next year, she can use imports instead for quicker patron management. Have you updated your patrons for the new school year?
The beginning of a new school year is the perfect time to learn how to use Alexandria better–and that includes your patrons. We’ve got some new videos to help your patrons learn how to use Researcher.