Privacy is important, and we’ve made some updates pertaining to patron privacy options. Let’s review the new setting, and how you can take additional measures to protect the privacy of your patrons.
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Do you have a lot of expired patron accounts cluttering up your Alexandria? Putting expiration dates on patron accounts helps you keep track of your patrons, keep your system organized, and makes it easy to remove expired patrons from your system. Let’s review all things expiration dates, so you can do some spring cleaning!
Whether for a reading program or to see what the next book is in the series, chances are you’ve had patrons asking about previous titles they checked out. Did you know that your patrons can access their own reading history through Researcher?
Are you guilty of writing your password on a visible sticky note, using easy-to-guess passwords like 12345 or even PASSWORD? Well, the beginning of the year is the perfect time to review and recommit to safe password practices in your library.
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?
Miss Spellman was always reminding her library student aides (and sometimes the other librarians) how to use the System Patrons in Alexandria–until she set up system patron alert notes.
Janet’s mother asked Miss Zarves to make sure her daughter doesn’t check out any movies from the school library that aren’t G-rated. But what’s the easiest way to keep track of that–especially if multiple parents are asking for different restrictions on what their kids can check out from the library?
We talked about Password management: best practices a few weeks ago, but this week we are diving deeper into passwords and how to keep your data secure.
In this week’s tip, we’re highlighting some of our favorite features in Patrons that you may not be utilizing. Let’s dive in!