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.
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Miss Honey is ordering books from a specific vendor. She knows the range of barcodes that are assigned for this particular vendor, but how can she tell which barcodes are already in use, and which are unused and available for new copies? Enter: the Unused Barcodes Report.
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.
The beginning of the school year is a great time to review ordering from vendors.
Are you looking for a way to notify parents about what items their kids are checking out? While there isn’t an automatic receipt sent out after item is checked out, you CAN set up the Loaned Items Notice to run daily and let parents know what their child checked out that day.
Welcome back to school! With everything the new school year brings to your plate, why take time to review your policies in Alexandria?
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.
It’s almost summer break, when you can put your feet up and dig into that book you’ve been dying to read. But before you close up for summer, here’s a couple more reminders!
Summer is coming, which means wrapping up your inventory for the year. Now is the time to begin identifying lost and discarded copies and removing them from your system. Here’s how!
Are things piling up before school is out for the summer? Wondering which reports you should run for help with your End-of-Year procedures? We got you covered. Even better, you can run the reports from our new reports beta!