6 January 2021

Highlights

We've got some awesome updates for you to kick off the new year!


It’s officially here! COMPanion has proudly partnered with Mitinet to bring you AnalyzeMARC, EnhanceMARC, and BestMARC. With these metadata management tools, you can make your catalog more helpful and discoverable by quickly adding reading program information, converting to RDA format, fixing tags, genrefying, and more!

Read more about the benefits of 

these Mitinet services and contact our Sales Team

if you’re interested.



A Patron Balance selection has been added to the 

Forgive Charges utility.

This allows you to be more specific with what you want to do, such as only forgiving charges that are less than $1.






Textbook Tracker has a some new utilities and a report:






We've added a lot of cool new features over the year. 

Tell us how the updated Copy List, Patron Details, Item Details, and more are working for you!

Important

  • Checkpoint ILS is being discontinued due to a lack of interest.

New & Improved

Accessibility
Operations
  • Increased the speed of downloading files and fixed issues with incomplete downloads.
Patrons
  • Updated the default patron pictures with more neutral colors.
  • Fixed the Homeroom/Location list so it populates when searching.
Reports

  • Added a Barcode List format to the 

    Unused Barcodes report,

    which makes it possible to cross off barcodes as you use them.

  • Fixed the Usage by Period report’s Hour of the Day format to show usage at all hours.
Researcher
  • Fixed an issue with choosing a month to place a reservation.


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