Imagine it’s a busy day in your library, and a parent asks if there is any way to ensure their child doesn’t check out any books about mummies, because they have been having nightmares. A quick way to see to this is by adding a patron alert note!
Tip of the Week
Keyboard shortcuts can make your life so much easier, but they can be hard to remember. Did you know that In Circulation, there is a special shortcut that opens up a list of Alexandria hotkeys.
Miss Honey needs to set up patron alert notes for several students. She can set up patron alerts one-by-one, or she can batch add them by using a utility.
Miss Honey’s library just integrated with the new discovery engine, Monarch. But what is Monarch, and what can it do for library patrons?
Miss Honey is about to put a book on hold for a student, when she notices the Hold (H) option and the Hold Copy (H) option, and she can’t remember the difference between the two.
Miss Honey is compiling a list of dystopian titles for an upcoming class project. When she does a SmartSearch for dystopian, she notices that the catalog leaves out a lot of titles. Instead, she should try a “begins-with” search, and now it’s easier than ever.
Miss Honey wants to make a slideshow highlighting books about Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, but she wants to keep the current slideshow saved as well. Luckily, she (and you) can make as many slideshows as you want, and keep track of them easily in Builder.
Winter break has come to an end and it’s time to get back to work. You find out a bunch of overdue fines accumulated over the break when the library was closed. Whoops! No need to worry, though. Alexandria has a utility to fix that!
We had a big year here at Companion, with lots of useful tips to help you make the most of Alexandria. Here’s a countdown of our most popular tips from last year, and our personal favorites.
We’re dashing through the snow to winter break! Don’t expect the books to come down your chimney — send out the Coming Due Items Notice.