Knowledge

=__Destiny Homepage__=

= = =//__Catalog (OPAC)__//=
 * The handout above gives you step-by-step directions on how to add images to your Destiny Homepage using the CMS (school website tool). Be aware of copyright permissions for any images or graphics you use on your Destiny site.
 * This handout describes how to resize images for the web.
 * With the high schools being added to Destiny, we have found that the Destiny Quest search brings up some inappropriate material. When searching for Pokemon, the students would type in po and the second choice which was displayed was pornography. They could then see all of the books at the high school level about pornography. After contacting Jocelyn, the only fix was to turn off the spelling help option. This is unfortunate because it is one of my favorite options. We plan to contact Follett to request that they consider trying to fix this. It is interesting that when Jocelyn turned off the spelling help option, Destiny Quest now only brings up books at our library.

=__//Circulation//__=


 * __**//HOLDS//**__ - If you empower students to put holds on books be aware that the system allows a hold to be put on a book that is currently on the shelf. When the hold is put on, the book shows up in the catalog as being "OUT" even though it is sitting on the shelf. We are encouraging students to only put holds on books that are checked out.
 * **__Magazines__** - Donna and I have discovered a great way to manage checking out periodicals to students. On the cover of the magazine, we attached a barcode, and entered it into cataloging in Destiny as "mixed material". The subtitle is "magazine with cover". So we may have several of this category in our system, but it saves an unbelievable amount of time and frustration, rather than entering them as temporaries! Now we just scan the cover and just place the magazine in . . . we figure it's more expensive to lose the cover than the magazine. Pretty much every class checks out periodicals (they can each check out one at a time), so with up to 27 kids, that is a lot to key in. So glad we were able to do this in Destiny!

=__//Cataloging//__=
 * Before adding catalog records, put your vendor information in cataloging. go to Back Office, site configuration, Site Administration, Library vendors. Create a list of vendors you use. When you import titles, attach a vendor to the import. It makes it much easier to track if there is a problem with that order.
 * When importing titles, please leave the __**default settings.**__ Remember to let Peggy and Jocelyn know when you are doing an import from disk or download.

=//__Back Office__//= This is to allow younger students to access **//My Info//** tab
 * non-school and non-patron accounts. Please use the attached form and the attached numbering system for these patrons. You will need to create two (2) new patron types, "non-school" and "school" . Remember to set their loan policy as well.[[file:Non School Destiny Patron Account .doc]]
 * For K-5 elementary schools, you will need to assign __patron types__ in this way:
 * K-2 students - either as K-2 or K, 1, 2, or K-1, 1-2
 * grades 3-5 - any combination is acceptable


 * The old **"Extract Data"** feature is not available in Destiny. But take heart, there is a way to view data in Excel. Go to Reports, Report Builder, COPIES. Check all areas that you want. In steps 2-7 group however you wish to have it arranged. You will be able to do additional sorting in Excel. Save and run. When you review the report in Job Manager, you will see that there is an XML option. Save this file to your desktop. OPEN Excel. Go to Data, XML, Import. Find file on your destop, import, OK, OK. Now you can save the report as an Excel file and work as you have before.


 * Deleting Outgoing Grade of Patrons in Destiny -- 2009 (click on the following link to access this year's directions)**

[|Delete Outgoing Grade of Patrons from Your School in Destiny[1.doc]]