A lot of our school library members are using Destiny to catalog their books; so we are passing on this information to help you!
North Star Consortium members;
Happy Holidays. I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to share some information form Follett regarding the next Destiny auto-update. The auto update is tentatively scheduled for January 8th . The v18.3 auto-update focuses on Destiny Back Office updates to Library Manager Holds reporting and Resource Manager transaction reporting improvements.
To summarize the Library Manager holds updates:
Call Number, Sublocation, and Homeroom were added to the “View Requests” processing page. Call Number, Sublocation, and Homeroom can be sorted under “Local Materials to be Pulled” and “Local Materials Ready for Patron”:
As previous, the page can be printed but now includes call number, sublocation and homeroom. If the fields were sorted, they will print sorted:
Call number and sublocation were also added as fields in Report Builder on the Patron/Current Holds/Bookings report:
To summarize the Resource Manager reporting improvements:
The need for a 1:1 device checkout report, drove an update to the existing Report Builder Patron/Transaction Summary. This change will assist in creating a report of items checked out and whether there are patrons that do now have a checkout (dependent on your template as well as the way the report is set up):
The way in which you are able to choose the portion of the template to report was changed from a drop-down list to a radial which allows for a template check box selection:
Previously:
With the update:
If I receive any additional information I will forward to our consortium members. Thank you.
Bob Wheeler
Executive Director
800-450-2990, ext. 101
Fax – 218-236-2368