Clever Integration

Does your school use Clever? Now you can keep your patron records up to date according to your student information system (SIS).

Textbook Tracker

Alexandria Textbook Tracker is a textbook management application that can be used on its own or in conjunction with Alexandria Librarian. Textbook Tracker makes it easy to maintain your textbook data, management, circulation, statistics, reports, security, etc. separate from general library circulation. When Alexandria Librarian and Textbook Tracker are used together, patron data is shared between the two applications.

Archives

We've simplified Archives to be the same for all Alexandria configurations, eliminated an unnecessary archive directory path, and added the ability to set the number Snapshot (manual) archives you'd like to store in addition to the Daily (automatic) backups.

We strongly advise you to review your Database Administration Settings to ensure that your archive directory is up to date and the number of archives stored is properly configured based on your needs and available disk space.

Important Information

Alexandria no longer supports Internet Explorer. It will still work in most cases, but as we continue to grow and modernize, IE simply won’t keep up. We still support Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. See our Alexandria Requirements for more information.

Version Numbering Change

As of 7.17.7, we've modified our versioning scheme to better coincide with scheduled monthly updates. We now use the following:

• 7 = Series Version; XX = Academic Year, beginning in June; XX = Month
• For example, 7.18.2 means:
  
  • 7 = Series version
  • 18 = 2018 academic year
  • 2 = The second monthly update
    
    

Centralized Catalogs

If you have more sites than you are licensed for, contact our Sales team immediately at 1-800-347-6439. You can check this in Sites Management; the number of total sites plus the Union Site shows at the top, and the number you have licensed is at the bottom. (The Union Site does not require an additional license.)

Updating Your Self-Hosted Application

You must be running 7.17.1 or above to update to 7.18.2.

Update to 7.18.2

New & Improved

Circulation

• Fixed the Assign Keywords circulation command. It works now. 
• Updated the Charge dialogs to allow punctuation in the note fields.
• Restored the ability to renew items in Self-Service.
• Restored the use of keyboard shortcuts in the Renew dialog: Renew (enter), Cancel (escape).
• Due to low usage we have removed support for the recall command.
  
  

Export & Import

• Corrected formatting on the Patron Fines export.
• Updated the Circulation export to include a decimal point in currency fields.
• Added the ability to match by email address in a Patron Import.

Management

• New! Now you can copy an image from anywhere (such as your computer or a web search) and paste it directly into Items Management or Explore Builder.
• Improved searching by alphanumeric barcodes.
  
  

Preferences

• Corrected an error that allowed email notices to be sent when the Send Suspended Email Notification policy option was disabled.
  
  

Researcher

• Quickly access Researcher from any of the patron interfaces by clicking the Researcher icon in the top right of the window.
• New! When opening a link to a single title in Search, the item details will automatically expand.
• Implemented a new Security > Account setting for Charges called Pay with Credit, which allows patrons to pay their library and textbook fines with available credit from Patron Status.
• Updated Scout to display more cover art.
• Updated strings to support an exact match qualifier (#) for genre. For example: ((genre::#"text-to-speech"))
• Corrected an error that caused a subject search to fail when the terms contained double hyphens.

Reports

• Added new variables that can be used in Circulation Letter templates: %PATRONBARCODE% and %USERNAME%
• Corrected an issue with the Overdue Items and unpaid Charges Notice that caused some relevant records to not be shown in certain databases.
• Patron Barcode Labels no longer print site information for skipped labels.
  
  

Sites

• Registration for Sites has gone through a few changes, but it won't affect you unless you change your registration. If you have any questions about your registration, contact our Sales team for assistance.