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!
Tag: imports
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!
It’s easy to use Chromebooks in your library with Alexandria. You can use them as stations in your library, or set them up as regular circulating items for your teachers, your patrons, or both.
Even if we like to think otherwise, covers are an important way to quickly judge the genre and topic of any book. You can make your collection more visual by filling in the cover art for your titles. But how do you get cover art?
Step two of our beginning of year procedures is to Import patrons, and patron imports are required to be in tab-delimited format. Depending on your SIS or the spreadsheet you’re using, this could also show as tab-separated value.
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, including how items circulate, how long items can be checked out, how much overdue fines cost, whether an item can leave the building, and more.
But how can you assign them once they are created?