^{10 April 2020}

What's New?

Alexandria and Textbooks changes continue to prepare for the Makeover, and we deliver on some new features you can enjoy now or later!

Important

If you self-host on a Mac, hold off updating to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Alexandria may be 64-bit compatible in an upcoming release.

New & Improved

Import

• Corrected the Patron Pictures import to no longer update System Patron pictures when importing images with leading zeros in the file name.

Items

• Added a MARC button to the right of the Actions menu that toggles between normal item viewing and MARC View.

• Updated the “module entry” (0 results) view to include four helpful links: Add a title, Search for items, View recently added, and View recently modified.

Patrons

• Added a nickname field, which will be displayed in parentheses when the patron is made current in Circulation or shows up in the Patrons Management records list.

• Added the Access tab to patron records. Patron Username/Password fields, Security Group selection, and Site Access have been moved to this tab.

• Updated the “module entry” (0 results) view to include four helpful links: Add a patron, Search for patrons, View recently added, and View recently modified.

• Renamed the Personal Info tab to Personal.

• Renamed the Contact Info tab to Contact.

• Renamed the Lexile tab to Programs, which now has two sub-tabs: Study Programs and Lexile.

• Removed some quick search options: Modified Today, Created Today, Modified in the Last Week, and Created in the Last Week (essentially Recently Created and Recently Modified, which we still have).

• Removed some sorting options: sequence #, username, and creation date.

Reports

• Added patron barcodes and homerooms to the In-Stock Hold Notice report, which will make it easier to get the notices to the right person.

• Fixed reports that use custom text to respect carriage returns.

• Added the Activity Summary report.

Self-Service

• Fixed a bug that was causing the Self-Service interface to not respect the style saved in preferences.

Utilities

• Integrated the Change Purchase Cost by Dollar Amount and Change Purchase Cost by Percentage utilities into the Change Purchase Cost utility.

• Corrected a bug that was preventing the Change Due Date utility’s New Due Date option from working when choosing today’s date.