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!
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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.
Are your students more likely to browse your shelves than your catalog? If so, how can you get them interested in all those eBooks in your collection that don’t have a space on the shelves? Make them a space!
Miss Honey noticed that a lot of the older title records in her Alexandria are a bit sparse. She decided to use Title Assistant to update the title records to a more complete MARC record, and you can too!
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?
Ms. Honey is teaching history next week, and specifically a section on Egypt. She wants to borrow the activity kit for hieroglyphs. Does this mean she has to check out all 30 items in the kit? Not if you catalog your activity sets using these tips!
It’s the beginning of the school year, meaning it’s time for Miss Honey to take a look at her collection and decide what needs to be ordered, weeded, or enhanced. What percentage of her collection is ebooks? Which records are still using AACR2 rather than RDA? Are any books missing an Accelerated Reader level?
The beginning of the school year is a great time to review ordering from vendors.
Book Conditioning is a bit like air conditioning—it’s cool, but you want to make it energy-efficient. So how can you use Condition Codes? You may want to track the actual used condition of the book to see what books stand up to the most use.
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.