22 April 2023

Content is subject to change until the official release on April 22, 2023.

Highlights

Have you only recently been updated to the Alexandria Makeover new interfaces? Check out the Alexandria Makeover page for FAQs and the new changes it includes!



Do you use Accelerated Reader or another reading program other than Lexile? Now you can get a list of all of your patrons with reading levels with the new Patron Programs report. Go to the Options tab to pick between patron Lexile, Lexile history, or reading level. (Alexandria Librarian only)

New and Improved

Reports
  • Your copy weeding list report has been renamed Weeding List by Copy, and has a new sort for Publication Year so you can check all the old books first. Look forward to a new Weeding List by Title report coming soon! (Alexandria Librarian only)
  • Overdue Items or Unpaid Charges Information report has simplified options and a new selection for “Patrons with Items Due”. 1 Line format is now called ‘Brief’ and 1 Line with Charges is now ‘Standard’.


Circulation
  • We’ve reformatted your Patron History report (run from the current patron > actions menu > History). It’s so much easier to read now!
Imports
  • Recently, we updated Alexandria Librarian imports for ISBN matching to also match on title. Now we’ve done the same for Textbook imports.

  • GG4L will now sync every day for changed records only. This will make the updates faster and more relevant. 

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Fixed

Circulation

  • Patron Details in Textbook Tracker tried to get away with showing the wrong cover art for Lost items—we found it and fixed it.  (Alexandria Textbook Tracker only)

  • You may have seen an ‘invalid time’ shown in your Copy Stats. We’ve found the issue for Chrome browsers. Safari and Firefox still don't like hyphens in dates so we have more to do. 
  • When you scan an already-checked-out item, Alexandria offers to Renew…but in the Makeover, hitting <enter> on your keyboard canceled the operation instead of renewing. That was annoying, so we fixed it.

  • Dates on receipts were doing something funky. Now they are better.

  • In Circulation, when you bring up a system patron like Lost or Discarded, we don’t show the items ‘out’ to those patrons in the Items out tab. You can click on Details for that patron, or run the indicated report.
  • When a patron has reached their checkout limit, you can still check items out to them by overriding the limit in the Alert window. The buttons were misbehaving and focusing on ‘cancel’—now it correctly focuses on ‘override’!
Items
  • If you use Alexandria or Textbook Tracker for expensive stuff, you can now enter the purchase and replacement costs for those copy records!
  • Adding a new copy in Items Management now always sets that copy to the site you are logged in to.
Operations
  • Textbook Tracker Reports, Utilities, Exports, and Imports were sending you to the Alexandria Operations when you clicked on the wrench. Now you will go to the Textbook Tracker Operations. Note that the operations queue is shared between them anyway. (Alexandria Textbook Tracker only)
Builder
  • Now when you set a bottom Explore pane in Search, it actually sets and shows up!  (Alexandria Librarian only)