10 June 2021

Highlights

We've got more on Researcher statistics, Reports, and Textbook Tracker. Take a look at what's new!


Are patrons actually checking Bulletins? How much was Search used in September vs. October? Answer these questions and more with the new Researcher Monthly Usage report!

See our Researcher Statistics article for information on using this report and the Researcher Queries export.

Thanks to Holly from Churchill Co. High School for this idea!






Copy List is now in Textbook Tracker. See a comprehensive list of each textbook’s copies, including their statuses, locations, and more.






Now you can include cover art in the Overdue Items Notice report’s email format! This will help patrons and parents more easily identify those items. (Librarian only)






We’ve got more helpful Reports updates for you! Take a look 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. 

Tell us how the Mitinet integration and Researcher statistics (and more) are working for you!

New & Improved

Import/Export
  • Removed Copy ID from imports and exports.
Items
  • Added ebook accession statistics! When patrons click ebook links in Researcher, those now get recorded as title statistics. You can see those stats in Items > Actions menu > Title statistics, and in future releases the numbers will be included in reports.
Preferences
  • Added Gumdrop Books to our Services Preferences. In the future, you’ll be able to automatically import Gumdrop Books.
Reports

Most of these changes apply to both Alexandria Librarian and Alexandria Textbooks.

  • Improved the Temporary Items Information report:
      • The 1 Line Landscape format is now a Landscape checkbox option for the 1 Line format.
      • Integrated the Complete format into the Detailed format since they are very similar.
      • For the 1 Line format, we removed the call number since it isn’t relevant. 
      • Renamed Barcode column to Patron Barcode and Copy Barcode.
      • Updated formatting for the Detailed format, including replacing call number with location.
  • Added a new Charges and Overdue Fines report, which is a combination of the old Complete, Charges Only, and Fines Only reports. Here are some things to note:
    • It can be found in the Charges / Payments category.
    • Use options to see only charges, only fines, or both.
    • The Charges and Overdue Fines – Complete, Charges and Overdue Fines – Charges Only, and Charges and Overdue Fines – Fines Only reports have now been moved to the Legacy category, meaning they will be phased out in the future. If you currently use any of those reports, we recommend creating a new Charges and Overdue Fines report using the options to indicate what you want to see.

Textbook Tracker only has the Charges and Overdue Fines – Complete report, which has been moved to the Charges / Payments category.

  • The Charges and Overdue Fines – Complete report will now show results when sorting by grade.
Self-Service
  • While in /SelfServiceInOut, patrons can once again return to the In/Out selection window by clicking on the “I’m Done” button even when no transactions have been made.
System
  • As always, improved performance and reliability!
Utilities
  • Saved reports, utilities, and exports now properly save Location/Homeroom.


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.