Miss Honey is looking at an item record in Alexandria, and she notices that the listed Title Call Number at the top is different than the Copy Call Number in the Copies tab. Let’s review call numbers, and how title and copy call numbers operate in Alexandria.
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Miss Honey saw the notice on the support center that we’ve updated our default z39.50 servers. Before she adds some new items into Alexandria, she needs to update her preferences. Let’s walk through it.
Jonathan has finished the first book in the Alex Rider series and wants to check out the second. But he says he can’t find it in Researcher or anywhere in the library. Do you really not have the second book?
Let’s go through how to make a MARC record template step-by-step.
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!
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!