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10 January 2020
Content is subject to change until the official release on 18 January 2020.
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.