We’ve increased the Letters >Email Signature character limit to 1500, meaning you can now fill it with all the important information your patrons need!
Important
Due to lack of interest, we no longer support a direct integration with Soundzabound and have removed its preferences.
If you self-host on a Mac, hold off updating your servers to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Alexandria will be 64-bit compatible in a future release. We highly recommend you consider Cloud Hosting.
New & Improved
Circulation
Simplified the Email to dropdown menu on the Support tab. We're also pre-selecting Customer Support for you to make your life simpler.
Export
Expanded the length of the field selecting dialog so you can see more fields on a larger screen.
Added and changed some exportable patron fields to differentiate between Librarian and Textbook Tracker data. See the Export Patron Fields for more information.
Total Currently Out → Total Library Items Out and Total Textbook Items Out
Currently Overdue → Overdue Library Items and Overdue Textbook Items
Total Fines → Total Library Fines and Total Textbook Fines
Total Payments → Total Library Payments and Total Textbook Payments
Life to Date Usage → Lifetime Usage (Library)
Life to Date Overdue → Lifetime Overdues (Library)
Note
There is no lifetime usage or overdues for Textbook Tracker.
Import
Expanded the length of the field mapping dialog so you can see more fields on a larger screen.
Preferences
Reduced the Z39.50 server list included with Alexandria to eliminate servers that are inactive. This will only affect new databases, so stay tuned for a future Tip of the Week if you want to learn how to update your own database to our new list. Learn about resources you can use to bolster your library's Z39.50 list!
Updated terminology in the On-Shelf Hold email notification to consistently say “on-shelf hold.” (These notifications go out when you have the Email Librarian when an On-Shelf Hold is placed through Researcher preference turned on in Circulation Preferences.)
Fixed Clever daily syncs.
Reports
Corrected reports to complete with all results even when items have invalid cover art URLs.
Researcher
Fixed a bug that was causing blank screens to load while navigating through Researcher.
Corrected Search and Explore to respect Require Login preferences.
System
Improved performance and reliability.
Tools
Added a link to Offline Mode. Did you know you can use it to take inventory in your library with your mobile phone? Don't forget to upload when you're done! Mobile inventory—Offline Mode
Utilities
New utilities in Textbook Tracker. Check them out!