Posts by Bethany Brown
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We’re speeding closer every day to the end of the school year! Here’s our annual overview of the procedures you’ll need to do to get Alexandria all ready for the summer.
It’s important to have a plan for how you will manage and remove patrons. The bulk of patron management work typically occurs at the beginning of the school year, but here’s a few things you can do before summer to get a head start!
It’s almost summer, and Ms. Honey needs to see circulation statistics for the whole school year. What is the best report for this? The Usage by Period report– See checkouts, check-ins, renewals, and hold requests for a particular date range.
It’s almost the end of the school year, and Miss Honey needs to find out what patron in each grade borrowed the most books from the library, so they can get a prize. She can run the Top Borrowing Patrons report to find out!
Miss Honey is about to perform inventory using Circulation, but she isn’t sure what the different modes are used for. Let’s review the inventory modes, and the Circulation inventory process.
The end of the school year is coming fast. One of the first things you’ll want to do in preparation for the end of the year is check your library’s calendars and item policies. With Alexandria, you can set Period Due Dates and Hard Due Dates.
Inventory season is here, and Alexandria is ready to do the heavy lifting for you. Inventory recently joined the makeover, so it may look a little different than last year, but it works pretty much the same. And, there’s a new, easier way to handle lost item fees!
With the rising tide of ebooks, have you ever wondered how much your physical library is actually being used? Welcome to the Usage Totals per Copy report–a quick and easy way to see just how much your patrons are keeping it old school.
Last week we went over patron privacy settings, and this week we’re going over the best way to keep your patron data secure: by making sure your operators have good passwords and valid emails with which to reset their passwords. Let’s get into it!