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22 January 2022

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You know if there’s a snow day, or a pandemic, you can run the Change Due Date utility to make sure patrons don’t have items due when the library isn’t open. But what if there isn’t a crisis, and you just want to help patrons renew their items while respecting renewal limits and holds? Now you can, by using the brand new Renew Items utility. You could even schedule this utility to automatically renew items checked out to teachers!





Using a ‘legacy' report? Those reports now point to the report we recommend instead.




Do you have books or materials in multiple languages? Now you can Search your catalog for the 130 Uniform Title. (Alexandria Researcher only)



Info

Did you get our notice about paperless renewals? Going forward, your renewal notices will be coming via email. Contact notices@companioncorp.com for questions or to request paper renewals.

New & Improved

Circulation
  • In-Stock Hold receipts show patron barcode. (Alexandria Librarian only)
  • Removed Textbook Tracker data from Patron Details dialogs if users are not subscribed to that service. 
  • “Undefined” on receipts is now showing the patron barcode.
Operations
  • Fixed bug for saved reports or exports that prevented the file link from being included in the email notification.
  • Saved Exports going to an FTP or FTPS location will have the file name (once), and then a time stamp.
  • Fixed bug that was stripping out punctuation when importing.
Reports
  • Titles for items that are overdue and still checked out to the patron will show on Overdue Items and Unpaid charges notices.
  • A pop-up notice has been added when you use legacy reports. 
  • Improved recognition of new lines in the Send Patron Details email report (ie. your formatting).
  • Fixed overlapping call numbers and publishers in Titles with No Copies report.

  • Textbook Tracker copy reports (Copy Information, Copy Labels 3x10, and Copy Usage Detailed) now have a selection for Department.

  • The Account Expiration Notice lets you select by a relative date, so you can send notices to patrons who have expired or who are expiring.

Researcher 
  • Items with multiple 505 note fields are now searchable by all content notes.
Textbook Tracker
  • Copy barcodes are now added to lost item charges.


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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.

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