End of Year: Ceiling Date & Fixed Date

Back Office>Library Policies>Patron Types

Ceiling Date
A ceiling date overrides the calculated due date if the ceiling date is earlier than the calculated due date.
A ceiling date also overrides a Fixed due date if the ceiling date is earlier.
A commonly used ceiling date is a week or two before the last day of school so that all items are returned before the last day of school, no matter what their calculated due date (like 14 days) would be.
On the day after the ceiling date, checkouts revert to the normal loan period. 

Fixed Date

To use a specific due date for checkouts of items belonging to a circulation type, enter that date here. Usually used for long term equipment, set the loan period of any of the circulation types to Fixed.

Make sure to change this date each year. Destiny® does not do so automatically. 

Reports – Who borrowed books today?

When you need to see what happened at the circulation desk for a day (or range of days) use the Copy Transaction Data report found in the Statistics area under the Library Reports tab. Enter the date(s), put a check in the box to Include Patron Data then click Extract. 

The report is in xml format. Save the report with a user friendly name. Open Excel, then open the saved xml report as a read-only workbook. 

The columns include everything you’d ever need! Titles, barcodes, patrons, a time stamp, even what kind of transaction. Sort by column headers to group transaction types. To learn more about working with xml reports, read this.  

http://www.monroe2boces.org/files/2471/using%20excel%20for%20destiny%20reports.pdf

Book Covers in Circulation YaY or Nay?

If you'd like to NOT see book covers in circulation, Go to Back Office>Site Configuration and open the Circulation sub tab. Uncheck the boxes circled in blue in the picture and Save. Some remove the pictures from Check In so more books will be listed.

Destiny & Chrome

We’ve received questions about Destiny and Chrome recently. There is no sound in circulation module when using Chrome. One library discovered that barcodes printed in Chrome didn’t work well. You'll find that some databases set up in One Search won't display when using Chrome. Follett recommends using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Safari.

Circulation Snap-Shot for items out

At the end of the year libraries like to monitor the ‘rate of returns’ for items checked out. For quick information: Circulation>Library Information. Click on the Statistics tab.

***Let it snow!***Let it snow!***Let it snow!***

What do you do when there is a snow day? The due dates will get messed up! Don’t worry – just go to Back Office>Calendar and change the date to CLOSED. Destiny will recalculate the due dates. Since Destiny is web based – you can do this while you are at home enjoying the day away from work.
Curl up on the couch with a cup of hot cocoa and a good book!

Circulation sounds

The sounds you hear in Circulation can be changed. There are four default sounds for events or actions in Circulation.

• All is well chimes when an action is successful.
• Attention needed sounds when an action was unexpected - blocked, needs further attention.
• Fine/Overdue alarms that the patron has existing fines or overdue materials.
• Hold/Reserve Ready indicates that there is a ready hold or reserve for this patron.

You can use any .wav or .au sound file that has a maximum length of 2 seconds, but before you start searching or editing, try one of the  20 sounds from Destiny online help. At this time, there are 28 and the names range from AiryPop to WetSpit.
To find them, click on the help button in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Search for ‘sounds’.  Listen to them and decide.  Download and save the sound file to your workstation.  Once you’ve got some saved, follow the steps below.
Navigate to Back Office>Site Configuration and choose the sub tab 'Circulation' You'll see the Circulation Sounds at the bottom of the page.
Click on Change beside the sound and you will access a page where you can upload the one you want.
If you get tired of the new sounds or just want to change things back to the way they were, click on .