Destiny+Resource+Lists


 * Lost Resource Lists**

One consideration would be to use categories as backups for resource lists. You would need to decide whether or not to make each teacher resource list a category, or the more important lists or just the lists of teachers when they leave.

Go to the Copy categories tab in cataloging, create a category giving it a name that is the same as the resource list and possibly the name of the teacher. Once created you should see a plus sign to the right. This will give you an option to add the titles from a resource list to that category. A category is controlled by the librarian(s) and can only be created, added to, edited and deleted by a librarian - or anyone with the rights set in their respective access level.

If a resource list is accidentally deleted it can be recreated from the category list, or you could allow public access to view that category.

Larry Gilbert

From: Follett-Talk-owner@host1101.follett.com [ mailto:Follett-Talk-owner@host1101.follett.com ] On Behalf Of fencilk@sau25.net Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:59 AM To: Follett-Talk@host1101.follett.com Cc: Follett-Talk@host1101.follett.com Subject: Re: Follett-Talk: Lost resource lists in Destiny 9.0?

This seems to be what happened. The library assistant could not login two days ago and had to be added again. In this school she had created the resource lists. I got a new assistant this past summer, and feared this might happen if we deleted her, so have kept that patron login. In our school though we both created lists. This needs to be re-evaluated I believe. Scary if there is no fix.

Sincere thanks for the super quick responses.

Kathleen H. Fencil Librarian McKelvie Intermediate School 108 Liberty Hill Rd. Bedford, NH 03110

- Original Message - From: "Janis Randall" < jrandall@deltasd.bc.ca > To: Follett-Talk@host1101.follett.com Sent: Friday, December 4, 2009 12:48:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Follett-Talk: Lost resource lists in Destiny 9.0? One other possibility. One of our teacher-librarians lost all her lists when her patron record was accidentally deleted. She was put back in to the system immediately but all lists were gone.

We now have a patron set up to use for each library specifically for the purpose of creating resource lists. They sign in as elibrarian and create the lists. That way, the lists stay at the school and do not move on with the teacher librarian.

We use both resources lists and categories, depending on the project. I find categories are more labor intensive to create because I have to actually edit each copy record. However we often pull all the books our students are using for a particular project and keep them on a cart until the project is over. Then it's easy to stick them all in a category because I can use Update Copies - Individual Update, select the category I want and scan the barcodes of all the books on the cart. It adds the category to each copy record very quickly!

You can add items to a category by putting them in a resource list, then dumping the resource list into the category. You don’t need to individually edit each copy record.