Summer

Have a fun summer! Stay safe!

Friday Fun 'Gotcha'

Before librarians and staff leave for the summer, there are library automation tasks to complete.

• Turn off any automated email notices going to staff or students.
• Holds & Reserves - Decide if you need to delete them or leave active for the start of the next school year.
• Please inform the Library Automation Team if the library will be open and/or circulating during the summer. This allows maintenance to be scheduled when it will not interrupt library operations. If the library will be used for summer school, let us know.
• Some libraries need to submit reports with statistical information at the end of year. Some common ones are listed below.

Popular END OF YEAR Reports:

To find the items deleted/weeded: Reports>Library Reports> Weeding Log. Select the date ranges needed; by month, school year, calendar year.
Circulation statistics. Circulation>Library Information. Choose a date range.
BEDS’ type information: Reports>Library Reports>Statistics>Collection Statistics Summary

You can set up the library calendar for the upcoming school year if you'd like. Instructions and a tutorial are located on the "Back to School" help page.

ILL Statistics due tomorrow Friday 6-19

Click here for form. 

You can sort by column headers in Five Systems to group by building or title if you need more information. Makes searching easier, too.

Shelf list for overdue items

To generate a shelf list of items that are overdue, go to 

Reports>Patron Reports>Circulation.

Choose Overdue Materials. 

Casual Friday Fun: Out of Print

Tired of wearing your union or school mascot T shirt on Fridays? Try something literary from Out of Print. The company was started by a couple of childhood friends in Manhattan. 

Out of Print Mission Statement

Out of Print celebrates the world’s great stories through fashion. Our products feature iconic and often out of print book covers. Some are classics, some are just curious enough to make great t-shirts, but all are striking works of art.

We work closely with artists, authors and publishers to license the content that ends up in our collections. Each product is treated to feel soft and worn like a well-read book.

In addition to spreading the joy of reading through our tees and accessories, we acknowledge that many parts of the world don’t have access to books at all. We are working to change that. For each product sold, one book is donated to a community in need through our partner Books For Africa.

How we read is changing as we move further into the digital age. It’s unclear what the role of the book cover will be in this new era, but we feel it’s more important than ever to reflect on our own individual experiences with great literary art before it’s forever changed.

From A 

to Z!

Article in Fortune magazine 

ILL Statistics due June 19th

ILL Statistics are due by Friday, June 19th.Find them in your Five Systems under the Stats tab. Click here for submission form. 

Destiny and End of the School Year

It's the second week of June!

Before librarians and staff leave for the summer, there are library automation tasks to complete.

• Turn off any automated email notices going to staff, students and ILL patrons.

• Holds & Reserves - Decide if you need to delete them or leave active for the start of the next school year.  

• Some libraries need to submit reports with statistical information at the end of year. Do you have what you need? If not, please contact us.

• Please inform the Library Automation Team if the library will be open and/or circulating during the summer. This allows maintenance to be scheduled when it will not interrupt library operations. If the library will be used for summer school, let us know. 

Genre in the library

Some of our libraries are adopting organization by genre. With Destiny, it is easy to create a copy category to add call number prefixes or print labels. Some schools have enough money to buy genre spine labels. Others reprint spine labels with the new genre identifier. Hilton Middle School put colored transparent tape over existing spine labels. See the Green for adventure, Orange for Historical in the first picture. 

To learn more about the mechanics of using Destiny to change prefixes, read BATCH UPDATE COPIES: Add, change or remove the call number prefix' from the  bottom of this linked page http://www.monroe2boces.org/SLS.cfm?subpage=2467

Before doing any global or batch updates, please contact lat@monroe2boces.org for guidance. We're here to help!

Social media and Destiny

You can allow teachers and staff to post a title from Destiny to their Twitter or Facebook.  

To make the change in their Access Level go to Back Office>Access Level. Choose the patron group and click on the edit icon next to that group. Open the the Patron sub tab and check the box "Able to post to social media sites"

These icons will be visible in the title details.

FYI - this option does not work in the Elementary interface of the catalog, regardless of Quest or Classic options.