The school is closed due to severe winter storms, and Miss Honey realizes there will be lots of overdue books that couldn’t be returned due to the unexpected closure. Time to recompute the due date!
Tip of the Week
Miss Honey has all of her librarians trying out the new Alexandria Reports beta, and they have some questions! Let’s go over it together, shall we?
Have you wished you could limit ‘your’ ebooks to students searching your site? Maybe you don’t want the middle schoolers seeing the high school titles, or you have limited e-copies and want to make sure they are available for students at your school. Well, now you can!
The library is for everyone! Alexandria is accessibility-friendly, and there are a lot of ways you can adapt and customize your setup for you and your patrons.
Right before winter break is a busy time in the library–that’s why Miss Honey saves time with keyboard shortcuts! If you’re not on the keyboard shortcut train yet, now’s your chance. They are the gift that keeps on giving!
Miss Honey knows that curating Researcher is an important part of empowering students to utilize the library. The different Searches available with Alexandria can be customized for your school based on the needs of your students–in Builder.
Miss Honey moved some shelves around in the library, and needs to add updated maps into Researcher. When she logs into Alexandria, Maps looks different! Here’s the low-down on the updated Maps interface.
Miss Honey read all about slideshows and explore panes in our last few tips, but both of them use search strings… and she doesn’t remember how to make them!
So how do you generate search strings?
It’s almost Halloween, and Miss Honey wants to highlight some of the best books for the season by making a slideshow. This is a great way to showcase books for any holidays or occasions. Here’s how to do it!
Miss Sanderson has been using the Popularity search to find which items in the library are getting the most use. But how can she highlight the popular items for students? Easy–with a Researcher Explore button.