Inventory is joining the makeover, and you can explore it in beta. Take a look at what’s new!
Tip of the Week
It’s time to do inventory, and Miss Honey knows there are books and items scattered all around the school, and finding them all will be like an Easter egg hunt. So, how can she (and you) go about inventorying classroom items, and items checked out to On Display?
Things tend to pile up at the end of the school year, so why not get a head start on your inventory? Here’s all the links you need to get a jump on things. After all, the early bird gets the (book) worm!
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?
Some of Miss Honey’s teachers created reading lists they want to share with their students. Now they can make any of their saved lists ‘Searchable’, which means other people can view them by going to Browse > Saved Lists. Students can make searchable lists too–it’s easy!
Mr. Finch, one of teachers at Miss Honey’s school, has a cart of books with him for the Approved Book Report List for his class. How can Miss Honey make a searchable list in Researcher with the books on the cart?
Miss Honey set up a new fantasy-themed section of the library, and she wants to make the books searchable under the term “fantasy.” She can do this by assigning keywords in Circulation!