Content is subject to change until the official release on May 15th, 2021.
Cover art for the Overdue Items Notice report's email format will be included in an upcoming release.
Highlights
We've got some new user-requested features. Plus, see what we're doing with Reports!
Export also includes other search components (genre, medium, study program, etc) and total results.
Say hello to the Researcher Queries export! When you have search logging turned on in your Researcher Preferences, you can get a record of every search your patrons have performed in the last 30 days. Throw it into a spreadsheet to analyze what’s trending.
Be sure to check out our Researcher Statistics article for more information! And keep an eye out for a new Researcher Monthly Usage report coming soon.
You can now include series and series volume on spine labels, making it a breeze to find the next volume. (Librarian only)
We are cleaning up and simplifying Reports to make your life easier! Take a look at the New & Improved section below for details. You can expect more helpful changes in the next few releases.
We've added a lot of cool new features over the year.
When searching by Titles Added, and trying to look for things added in a single day, you'll now get the results you expect.
Preferences
Updated the reporting security preferences to match the new categories (see the Reports section below).
Added a new Researcher preference that allows you to log search queries. (This needs to be turned on if you’d like to use the Researcher Queries export).
Reports
Most of these changes apply to both Alexandria Librarian and Alexandria Textbooks.
Category Cleanup
Renamed and added some Reports categories. Here's a list of all the categories as they currently are:
All Reports
Popular
Patrons
Titles
Copies
Circulation
Statistics / Usage (previously Statistics)
Charges / Payments
Holds
Inventory
Collection Analysis
Study Programs
Interlibrary Loans
Special (previously System)
Legacy
Bolded categories are new, and those with the icon have been added to Alexandria Textbooks as well as Alexandria Librarian. Some categories might be empty right now as we are in the middle of moving things around.
Removed all subcategories in the Collection Analysis, Statistics / Usage (previously Statistics), and Special (previously System) categories to save you some clicks.
Location & Naming Cleanup
Some things are moving around and getting new names! But don’t worry, we’re hoping this will make reports easier to find.
Moved some reports to the Special category (previously System category):
Operator Summary report
Patron SIF Updates report
Union Site Patrons report
Union Site Copies report
Subscriptions Information report
Moved some reports to the new Study Programs category:
Accelerated Reader Information report
Fountas and Pinnell Information report
Guided Reading Information report
Reading Counts Information report
Titles with Lexile Score report
Titles with No Lexile Score report
Patron Lexile report
Patron Lexile Graph report
Moved some reports to the new Legacy category:
Inactive Patrons report
Expired Patrons report
Routing Slips report
Routes Patron List report
Routes Information report
Overdue Items Posting List report
Patron Overdue List report
Overdue Items Information report (old version)
Severely Overdue Items Notice report
Patron Credit Details report
Legacy reports will eventually be phased out, so we encourage you to replace them with other reports. See each Legacy report’s documentation for our recommended alternatives.
Moved the Patron Financials Brief report (previously Patron Balance report) to the Charges / Payments category.
Renamed some reports:
Account Status Summary → Patron Details Summary (now generates Patron Details for multiple patrons at once)
Merged all of these reports into one Special Status Copies report:
Archived Copies report
Library Use Copies report
On Order Copies report
On Repair Copies report
Unknown Copies report
Merged the Overdue Items Posting List and Patron Overdue List reports into the Overdue Items Information report. The new merged report has four formats with updated organization. You can also sort by Copy Call Number now!
Added number of copies and publication year columns to the Title Lifetime Usage report to help with weeding.
Improved formatting for the Patron Lexile report, making it easier to read.
Researcher
Corrected a bug that was causing Search to crash when looking at an item’s Full MARC.
All results now show when using Browse on mobile.
Self-Service
The item now clears after clicking the I’m Done button after check in.
System
Fixed a database issue.
Improved performance and reliability. Always!
If you self-host on a Mac, hold off updating your servers to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Alexandria will be 64-bit compatible in a future release. We highly recommend you consider Cloud Hosting.