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