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Ending/Starting the Year

What to do and think about when ending the current school year and planning for the next.

Finalizing and paying your RILINK invoice

Finalizing and paying your RILINK invoice

Please notify RILINK staff using the Request Help button on our website to notify RILINK staff if:

  1. You haven't received your invoice by June 14
  2. You are making any changes or have any questions, including the correct person who should be listed on the invoice
  3. You do not have a budget, or the budget will not be sufficient to pay RILINK dues and Follett

Please submit the RIINK invoice as soon as possible for payment.

Your library's LibGuides site

Your library's LibGuides site

  1. Review contents of  each tab/page and box in your LibGuide and remove outdated information
  2. Check all links 
  3. Give some thought to how you and your students use the libguides. Should you revamp the pages to better reflect your instruction or the resources you provide? Is it easy to use, and easy on the eyes?

Revising and updating Destiny Discover

Revising and updating Destiny Discover

  1. Make sure you are running Destiny 23 and Unified Navigation. If you are not, contact the RILINK staff
  2. Are your Learning Resources up to date? Do they include often-used resources like Exploring Nature and Culturegrams?
  3. Are your Collections up to date? Are there site-specific or grade-specific collections that you can add to make searches easier for your patrons?
  4. Did you know you can change the icons for your most popular genres? In Destiny Discover, go to Admin/Display Options/Featured Content/Customize Topics Carousel/Click on the Icon to change/go to upload icon tab

 

 

Improving your catalog

Improving your catalog

  1. Use the Update Title functions in the Catalog tab on your library's Destiny Back Office, including Update and Recon.
  2. Run the Collections Statistics - Summary (Reports tab under Library Reports)  Look for incorrect call number extensions and correct them.  You can capture the data by opening a spreadsheet, copying the data lines from the report, then pasting them into the spreadsheet.  This will give you Circulation data that you can refine by deleting unwanted lines and adding headings as needed.
  3. Once you run Collections Statistics you can also switch to the Age and/or Value tabs to capture additional data about your Collection.