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Patron Account Reports

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Account Introduction

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Generates report generates informational slips for patrons with their login credentials, library use instructions, account restrictions, library policies, contact information, and other information the librarian wants to give patrons.

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Use(s)

Print these slips at the beginning of the school year for each patron to give them all the information they need to start using the library.

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Learn more about setting up email notices for patrons and librarians.

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4 Per Page format

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Email format (PDF lists all patrons who received an email)

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Email format (example of an email sent to a patron)

Note

The account expiration date will only show if you have account expiration dates enabled in your Patron Preferences.

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Patron Details Summary

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Generates Patron Details for each selected patron (The Account Status Summary report creates a full breakdown of the current state of patrons' accounts. This includes accounts)

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Before 20.12, this report was Account Status Summary.

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Patron Details includes an account balance, payments, charges, credits, loaned items, lost items, overdues, holds,

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reservations

(similar to Patron Details quick reports, which are found in the Circulation module). 

Check the Limit to patrons that have transactions box on the Options tab to limit the patrons that appear in this report to those whom have items checked out, on hold, reservation, or owe fines. If you wish to print all patrons, whether they have transactions or not, remove the check.

Uses

, and reserved items.

Use(s)

Print this report for patrons and/or their parents regularly so they can remember which items they have, what's overdue and needs to be returned, which items are lost, how much they owe the library, etc. Use the Send Patron Details Email report if you want to email the report to patrons instead.

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Limit to patrons that have transactions: When checked, this limits the listed patrons to those whom have items checked out, on hold, reserved, or owe fines. If you wish to print all patrons, whether they have transactions or not, remove the check.

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Example Report

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Account Expiring Notice

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Emails patrons whose accounts are expiring in the next 30 days

Note

This report will only work if you have enabled card account expiration dates (Preferences > Patrons > Patron Rules > uncheckDisable Card Expiration Datesaccount expiration dates) and configured your Email SettingsPreferences.

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The Card Expiring Notice report emails patrons whose library cards are expiring in the next 30 days.
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Patrons need a valid email address on their record to receive email notifications. Not sure who's missing an email? Run the Patrons with No Email report to get a list.

Learn more about setting up email notices for patrons and librarians.

Use(s)

Create a saved report that's scheduled to automatically run once a month so that patrons are always notified of their cards expiring.

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Example Email

This is what the email looks like to patrons:

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Patrons Missing Information

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Generates a list of patrons without an email or picture on their record

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Note

This report will only generate results if you have enabled card expiration dates (Preferences > Patrons > Patron Rules > uncheck Disable Card Expiration Dates).

The Expired Patrons report creates a list of patrons with expired library cards. Card expiration dates can be viewed or edited on the Personal Info tab of Patrons Management. Set the number of days patrons' cards are active using patron policies.

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Run this report regularly
  • to see which patrons need to
be renewed or removed.
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Detailed format (with patron pictures)

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  • have a primary email address manually added.
  • If you use any email notice reports, run this report to get a list of who's missing a primary email address. Then you can contact those patrons and add an email. Otherwise, they won't receive notices.
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Note

This report may be removed soon. We recommend using the Patron Information report and selecting by a status of Inactive instead.

The Inactive Patrons report generates a list of patrons with the status of Inactive. 

Uses

Run this report regularly to see which patrons need to be renewed or removed.

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Patrons missing Email

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The Patrons with No Email report generates a list of patrons without a listed email address.

Uses

Run this report after importing patron records to see which patrons need to have an email address manually added.

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The Patrons with No Picture report generates a list of patrons without a picture.

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Run this report after importing patron pictures to see if any patrons were missed.

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Suspended Patrons

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Generates report generates a list of patrons with a status of Suspended as well as or letters for notifying patrons and parents of the suspension

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If you can't charge fines but still want to encourage patrons to return items on time, suspending them and sending out these letters may act as an incentive.

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Self Mailer format

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