^{21 August 2021}

Highlights

There are exciting new additions to Mitinet! Plus, even more Reports improvements.

New & Improved

Circulation

• Removed repetitive options from the Current Patron and Current Item Actions menus.
• Now, if you’re nearing your record limit, a warning will show in the transaction log.
• Added notices for expiring licenses! Starting when your license expiration is 90 days away, you’ll get periodic reminders in Circulation.
• If Guided Reading is your preferred study program, it will now properly display in the Current Item pane.

• To improve clarity, the Lookup commands now require a space between the command and the lookup term. In other words, to find Jayson, you have to type "l jayson". This gets rid of ambiguity like "landerson", which you would think might let you look up Anderson, but it would actually perform a search across all sites for "nderson". This includes the following commands:
  • Locate Patron (L)
  • Locate Patron - across all sites (LA)
  • Find Item by Title (T)
  • Find Item by Author (A)
  • Find Item by Call Number (C)

Preferences

• Safari Montage is now enabled with the I01 bundle.

• When syncing only teachers with GG4L, the header now includes “Barcode” again.

Reports

• Improved the Patron Balance report (now Patron Financials Brief):

• Added a credit selection.
• Added a credit column to the report output.
• Moved to the Charges / Payments category.
• Moved the Patron Credit Details report to Legacy.

• Moved the Top Borrowing Patrons report to the Statistics / Usage category and cleaned up formatting.

• Renamed the Library Usage Summary report to Patron Library Usage Summary and moved it to the Statistics / Usage category.

• Cleaned up general formatting for the Patron Counts and Review Analysis reports.

• Cleaned up and condensed the in-transit reports:
  • Moved these reports to the new Interlibrary Loans category.
  • In-Transit from Current Site and In-Transit to Current Site reports:
    • Added an option to include “all” or “just late in arrival” items. Because of this, the two “late in arriving” versions of these reports were moved to the Legacy category.
    • Added an option to show the creation date or expected arrival date (also applies to the In-Transit Holds for Current Site report).
    • Cleaned up some general formatting.
  • Current Site Overdue ILL Information and Other Sites Overdue ILL Information reports:
    • Renamed Current Site Overdue ILL Information to Interlibrary Loans - Overdue at Current Site.
    • Renamed Other Sites Overdue ILL Information to Interlibrary Loans - Overdue at Other Sites.
    • Renamed the 1 Line with Charges format to Brief and cleaned up formatting.
    • Combined all Detailed formats into one and cleaned up formatting.

• Improved some Special reports:
• Command Barcodes: Updated some of the command names and descriptions.
• Damage Code Barcodes: Updated the text in the report output.
• Item Policies, Patron Policies, Policy Exceptions, and Unused Barcodes: Cleaned up some general formatting in the report outputs and/or summary files.
• Subscriptions Information: Renamed the 1 Line format to Brief and Complete to Detailed.
• Union Site Copies: Added to Textbook Tracker and removed all formats except for 1 Line, which has been renamed to Brief.

• Improved and simplified the Titles with No Copies report:
• Renamed the 1 Line format to Brief.
• Removed all other formats.
• Added publisher and policy information to the report output.

• Added the average publication date to the Brief Analysis report.

• Updated the Account Introduction report:
• Cleaned up formats.
• Removed the 2 Per Page format.

• The Title Available Copies report now clearly indicates when there are no copies.

• All of the Holds reports will now show “remainder of title” information (245_b) for each record if applicable. This also applies to the Overdue Items Notice, Unpaid Charges Notice, Overdue Items and Unpaid Charges Notice, and Coming Due Items Notice reports.

• Corrected overlapping text in the Patron Information report.

• Fixed the Send Email report’s summary file so it lists all patrons who were sent an email.

Researcher

• Updated the ebook publisher flags to be uniform blocks of color and text that indicate the publisher (Overdrive, MackinVIA, etc).

• Added the option to filter Search’s results by Copy Location (852_b) or Language (041_a).

• All links in an item’s record now display in Scout.

• Explore now respects the Show Title Availability preference.

Self-Service

• Corrected the placeholder text to automatically update at the appropriate time.

System

• As always, improved performance and reliability!

Utilities

• Updated the Declare Checked Out Copies Lost utility for Textbook Tracker:
• Selections: Choose which patron policies to include or exclude from a list. (This is called an Advanced Selection. Learn how they work!) With that selection, you can declare everything still checked out as lost except for items teachers still have. Also, you can enter a “days overdue” range.
• Options: Choose whether you want to Charge Lost Fees & Overdue Fines or Charge Lost Fees Only.

• Standardized the Remove Holds utility’s summary file.

Administration

• Fixed a browser error that was occurring when clicking Generate Certificate Signing Request or Create Temporary Certificate in Web Settings.