What's New?

Take a look at these highly-request features!

• Merge patrons. That’s right! Now you can merge one patron with another, and keep all their lists, reviews, charges, checkouts, and more!

• Card Expiring Notice report. Let patrons know their library cards are expiring soon with this notice report.

• Print more. Change the font size on your 5x10 labels, and print your results in Search with cover art!

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

• Fixed patron imports to respect the Ignore Leading Zeros on Barcodes preference.

Items Management

• Improved SmartMARC to append instead of overwrite the genre tag (655_a) for existing items.

Operations Management

• Updated Operation Summary files to include the app name in the header (Alexandria Librarian or Alexandria Textbook Tracker).

Patrons Management

• Added the ability to merge patron records.

Reports

• Added the Copy Labels (5x10), Variable report, which allows you to choose the number of rows and font size.

• Added the Card Expiring Notice report to both Alexandria and Textbook Tracker, which allows you to send notifications to patrons whose library cards are expiring soon.

Researcher

• Changed printed Search results total terminology from Bibliographies to Results.

• Enhanced Search with the option to print a list of results with cover art.

• Corrected a bug that was causing HTML markup to display in title summaries.

System

• Improved performance and reliability.