Let’s go through how to make a MARC record template step-by-step.
Tip of the Week
Miss Honey just purchased a large order of books from a vendor–with new copies of existing titles, and brand new titles. Now she needs to import them into Alexandria so they can be circulated and searched!
Using interest terms in Items provides a way to group items into custom categories and searchable groups, so you can target a specific grade or range of grades. Then, using a search string of the interest term makes the associated items easily searchable by term in Researcher!
Miss Honey wants to help teachers create saved lists in Researcher with books their students can choose from for class reading. Let’s walk through how she (and you!) can create saved lists, then make them into explore panes so they are easy for students to find!
Miss Honey and her staff are having a back-to-school book fair, and are looking for a way to get the word out to patrons, teachers, and parents. What better way than by building a Bulletin Board in Alexandria!
Now that September is here and we’re officially settling into our back to school routines, let’s review some of our favorite beginning-of-year tips.
The beginning of a new school year is a great time to refresh and expand your knowledge of how to utilize Alexandria, and there’s no better way than with your very own virtual librarian!
Miss Honey wants to set up kiosks for patrons using the library’s Chromebooks. With kiosks, patrons can use Search, Self-Service, and Activity, without being able to do anything else on that device.
It’s the beginning of the year, and Miss Honey wants to start the year at her new library with a standardized format for call numbers. She knows that she can use utilities to modify the call number prefix, but how can she update the entire call number, or other title record information in one go?
Enter: exports and imports!
The school year has just started and Miss Honey realizes that all the patrons are coming up with an expired alert. Has this ever happened to you? Rather than renewing the patrons manually in Circulation, lets review some better options. Don’t worry- it’s an easy fix!