Add a welcome message or important seasonal information like upcoming holiday hours to your Researcher home page.
Tip of the Week
Brand your Researcher hub for a seamless transition between your school’s website and Researcher. Your students will know they’re on the right page.
When an item is lost or discarded, you may want it to remain in your database for a period of time. If you don’t want patrons to see these items in the meantime, the solution is simple with Alexandria’s Auto-Hide feature.
Miss Honey’s library has made a push the last two months to teach students how to use Alexandria Researcher–but how can she tell if it worked? The Researcher Monthly Usage report!
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!
For Central Union users, the In-Transit mode and In-Transit patron (barcode 9) is probably the least-understood but integral part of the Central Union System. Improper use of the In-Transit feature can cause a lot of problems, so let’s review how to use it properly!
Back in July, we went over how to add book conditioning to your library. Well, did you know that if you only use two conditions (Usable and Unusable), you can utilize condition codes in an entirely different way?
The new and improved Search is officially out of beta, and it’s the perfect time for a review and a tour! For example, did you know that Researcher has five different ways to search? Empower your patrons to level up their searching game and utilize your library.
If you are in a scanning frenzy—checking things in, checking things out, you’ve got a busy library—you might not want to let go of the scanner in order to use the mouse or keyboard to change modes in Alexandria’s Circulation window.
The X command is a great way to perform multiple time-saving functions within Circulation. Let’s take a look at what the “Magic X” can do for you!