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Content is subject to change until the official release on 28 December 2019.
What's New?
20 December 2019
Take a look at what we have prepared just in time for the new year!
- GG4L. It’s true! We’ve partnered with GG4L and now offer it as a SIS Integration option with Alexandria. Contact our Sales Team at (800) 347-6439 to learn how you can benefit from syncing your patron information with GG4L Connect!
- Activity (beta). We’re testing a new module called Activity, which records student visits to the library. Give it a try in the demo and let us know what you think! (Login: demo, demo)
- Cover Art Improvements. Check out our new default cover art images! Also, you can now set your own default images for patrons.
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
Circulation
- Changed the timing of the “Circulation Fine” sound. It now plays when the charges dialog first pops up rather than after processing the fine.
- Fixed a bug that was causing a browser error to occur when placing a duplicate hold in Hold Copy mode.
- Corrected the Advanced Bookings reports to respect the specified sorting options.
- Fixed a bug that was causing Advanced Bookings to check out all items with overlapping reservation dates at once.
Export
- Fixed MARC record exports to include titles with no copies.
Import
- Patron record imports no longer alter what’s already in the username field if blank fields are imported.
Operations Management
- Updated the Information file to show the total number of removed titles when manually removing titles.
Preferences
- Removed the “Last Grade” value from within the grade table. However, it still shows above the grade table.
Reports
- Enhanced the Reservations List report to include a Reservation Start Date selection.
- Added Card Expiring Notice report to Alexandria and Textbook Tracker.
- Restored the Reservation Label report.
- Added the Patron Payment History, Charges and Overdue Fines – Complete, Overdue Items Information, Copy Usage Details, In Processing Copies, Discarded Copies, Lost Copies, and Title Lifetime Usage reports to Textbook Tracker.
- Updated patron reports and exports to first reference the grade table when sorting by grade.
- Changed spine label reports to no longer remove the period when breaking on spaces & periods.
- Fixed the 2 Per Page format in notice reports to show all notices listed in the summary.
- Corrected the Copy Monthly Usage report to show usage for the designated time frame.
Researcher
- Added the option to choose a preferred study program for Browse.
- Improved Browse by Study Program to include a Lexile code selection and display a logged-in patron’s current Lexile score. The Lexile range also automatically sets to 100 points below and 50 points above their score.
- Fixed Browse by Newest to first show items with the most recent accession dates.
System
- Improved performance and reliability.
Textbooks
- Corrected Textbooks to respect Barcode Preferences when searching by barcode.
Utilities
- Enhanced the Remove Patrons utility with a Graduation Date selection.