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1 What s New in Destiny v9.0 Destiny Library Manager Featuring Destiny Quest Destiny Media Manager Collaboration, Community, Connection and More in Destiny 9.0 From expanded social networking and collaboration to time-saving patron empowerment, Destiny 9.0 has what you need to keep your library thinking forward toward 21 st century achievement. A host of new collection management features streamline your tasks while enhanced functionality in the Destiny Quest K-12 student search interface keep your students engaged and coming back to the library. Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Destiny v Patron Empowerment Saves Time p Customize Your Destiny Quest p. 2 Patron Empowerment: 3. Community and Social Networking p. 3 User Name and 4. Search SAFARI Videos in Destiny p. 4 Password Management Patrons and Passwords 5. Subject Search in Alliance Plus p. 7 Empower Your Users to Create Login Accounts: Destiny 9.0 takes another challenging and time-consuming task off your hands: managing patron passwords and usernames. With version 9.0, a new site-based feature enables patrons to manage their own usernames and passwords when using Destiny classic or Destiny Quest. A checkbox on the Site Configuration screen, Allow patrons to create user name and password, is checked by default. Process checkpoints within the system provide authorization and prevent duplication of accounts. In addition, users will be able to reset their passwords. This new feature empowers users by enabling expanded collaboration and social networking; only logged-in users may recommend titles to others, request titles through the wish list, add text reviews or upload digital content. Customize Your Destiny: New background themes. See page 2. Resource List Widget: See page 3. Top 10 and New Arrivals: Display or don t display? See page 2.

2 Customize Your Destiny Quest Change the Destiny Quest Background Theme Destiny Quest users now have the capability to customize the background, colors and images that are displayed during their search session. Users may choose from the original blue maze background or select a theme geared toward elementary users or a theme designed to appeal to high school users. Each selected theme is saved and appears the next time the user logs in; guests may change the theme, but it is reset to the default once the guest session is completed. The default theme is set at the site configuration level. Additional themes are planned for future releases of Destiny Library Manager. Narrow Down Search Results by Alpha, Genre, Page Count or Ratings Expanded flexibility within the Narrow Your Search option enables Destiny Quest users to sort and view the results in these categories: In Alphabetical Order: See results in alphabetical order by author, subject, series, awards, language and format. Results may also be narrowed by number of hits. By Genre: Results can be displayed by genre and sub-genres, if cataloged. By Number of Pages: Help younger students find books of just the right page count to keep them challenged but not overwhelmed using the Extent-Pages search narrowing option. By Review Rating: Sort results by titles with the highest user star ratings. New Display Options for Top 10 and New Arrivals A section added to the Back Office Site Configuration screen will enable administrators to choose whether or not to diplay the Top 10 titles in both Destiny classic and Destiny Quest. An additional option on this screen will allow the administrator to turn off the New Arrival section in Destiny Quest. If the Show New Arrivals in Destiny Quest is unchecked, this information will not display on the Destiny Quest opening search screen. In addition, a new option on this screen will let users choose to count in-library use circulations in the Top 10 count and what patron types to include. Feature Key Library Manager Destiny Quest Media Manager Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 2 of 8

3 Build Community and Social Networking with Destiny Quest Recommend This Title to Others Destiny Quest users with valid usernames and passwords can now recommend a title to their peers by clicking a link on the Title Details screen. A pop-up dialog box prompts the user for the patron name and provides a field to enter comments and the reason the title has been recommended. The recommended title appears in the receiver s My Info section. Make a Wish: Suggest Titles to Add to the Collection Destiny Quest users with the rights to add a title to the site s Wish List will now have the ability to request specific titles to add to the collection, just like they can in Destiny classic. By clicking on the Add a Wish link on the Title Details screen, a dialog box appears with a default selection of the current title. If Another title is selected, the user must complete the Title field. On the main Destiny Quest search screen, this dialog box also appears with a prepopulated search term when a search returns no results. Public Resource Lists Promote Collaboration See what others are reading, teaching and learning with the ability to view and access public Resource Lists in Destiny Quest. Once the View Public Lists access right is assigned, the Destiny Quest home screen will display the most recently updated lists showing the last five items sorted by the date the item was added or updated. By selecting Show All, the list will refresh and display all public resource lists within a scrollable widget interface. Create Bibliography Report from a Personal Resource List Destiny Quest will now enable users to generate a bibliography report of library titles from a personal Resource List. The report format will match the format in Destiny classic and includes call number/author (default), Author/Title and Title/Author, and Show notes. New Search Prompts and Navigation Help Did You Mean? Prompts Help Guide Users Searches When a Destiny Quest user attempts a search that results in No matches found, the user is presented with a Did you mean? search suggestion drop-down box. Clicking the Go! Search again button initiates another search using the new terms. The user will see the Did you mean? suggestion when entering five or fewer words. Paging Arrows and Text Cues Guide Users Through Destiny Quest To help your users navigate easier, within the Narrow Your Search window and in other windows in Destiny Quest where additional text may be found on the following pages, small paging arrows in the lower corner or corners of each window have been replaced with arrow buttons and text indicating Next and/or Previous. Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 3 of 8

4 Cataloging Enhancements Merge Duplicate MARC Records After Import Ongoing cataloging, adding new titles and collection cleanup get a big boost with Destiny 9.0. You may now merge duplicate MARC records after they have been imported. Under Catalog on the Update Titles screen, a Merge Duplicate tab has been added. The process can be run for the district (default) or for a specific site and can be limited to titles last updated in particular date range. Search for SAFARI Montage Video Records in Destiny Incorporating SAFARI Montage streaming videos into your lesson plans just got easier. Destiny 9.0 supports searching of SAFARI Montage streaming videos. If you ve loaded the SAFARI Montage records into your database, the MARC records for SAFARI Montage titles will include a URL in the 856 tag that points to the district s SAFARI Montage server. Users may add copies, circulate, add reviews and place holds on these titles. Just like ebooks, SAFARI Montage records have no copies associated with them. Destiny 9.0 enables you to choose to preserve SAFARI Montage records and ebooks when deleting titles without copies. Matching Rules Enhancements When importing titles, users will now have the option to select to remove the author requirement from the strict matching rules. Slight differences in Author may have prevented otherwise identical records from matching. Selecting the Remove the author requirement from the strict matching rules check box will ignore the differences in the Author fields during import. Title Import Protection Destiny 9.0 includes a protective safeguard that prevents users from uploading and importing a conversion file (.all). This file is typically only imported once, during initial implementation of the Destiny system. If a user selects an import file with the.all extension, the following message is displayed when Preview or Import is clicked: This appears to be a Destiny Administrator s import site file, not a valid title import file. Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 4 of 8

5 Enhanced Reporting and Administration Display ebook Statistics Your ebook collection may be growing, and Destiny 9.0 helps you keep up with more specific ebook circulation statistics to enable you to determine how often they are being used and to help justify additional ebook purchases. ebook checkouts are included under Check outs in Current Library Statistics. With Destiny 9.0, in addition to viewing total checkouts, you will be able to view Follett ebook Check outs and Follett ebook Previews. Statistics for ebooks from other vendors are included under Check outs. See Hidden Materials at Other Sites District administrators now have the capability to enable sites to see local hidden materials. If this right is enabled, users with the right to See off-site hidden materials will be able to search across the district through ILLs and see materials at other sites not typically available for student checkout, such as bookroom/instructional materials, equipment, parent center materials, etc. Changes to Special Due Date in Checkout Under Circulation Checkout, when changing the due date for checkout to patron, users have the option to select a date until logout or for this item. Once selected, this option will remain as the default option until changed by the user. Batch Delete Book Reviews To help maintain your growing book review files, Destiny 9.0 now supports global delete of reviews at individual sites by date range, content or patron. Choose to delete a select group based on specific review criteria, such as Anything (all reviews will be deleted), Ratings Only (reviews with only star ratings but no text comments), Comments (reviews that include text comments) or Digital Content (reviews with a file attachment). You may also delete reviews by specific patron, by patrons with a common graduation year or by patrons who have been transferred or deleted. Backing up your database remains as important as ever; once you ve deleted the reviews, they are permanently removed from the records. Print Receipts for Today s Checkouts Only Destiny 9.0 now provides your patrons with more up-to-date fine status on their receipts. You may print out receipts for transactions for Only today s check outs from the Check Out screen. The setting will be saved once the Receipt button is clicked and is displayed next time the screen is accessed. Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 5 of 8

6 District Circulation Reports Limiter New functionality in Destiny 9.0 gives district users additional capabilities for historical circulation statistics reporting. A new option supports pulling library statistics by date range. This option may be run at any time, and is not restricted to off-peak periods. Report Builder Patron Notes Enhancement In the Report Builder, under Patron General Information, users will now be able to view notes on patron records. If the Note General field is selected, the report will include patron notes not marked urgent ; by selecting the Note Important field, the report will display a patron note that is marked urgent. More Limiters in Report Builder Report Builder flexibility is enhanced with the ability to select AND or OR when setting up limiters to indicate which records to include/exclude from import. Media Bookings from a Public Resource List Destiny Library Manager customers who also use Destiny Media Manager may now book media materials that are posted in the public resource list. Duplicate Booking Requests Prevented If a user already has one or more bookings on a title, an informational message will display, You have existing bookings for this title, indicating the dates of the existing booking and the number of copies. This also applies when the user already has one or more bookings of a title that is in a Resource List. Print Packing List Destiny Media Manager users will now be able to create and view packing lists without shipping the materials. The packing list is available to view in PDF format. Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 6 of 8

7 Enriched Content Subscriptions Follett Software offers an exceptional lineup of enriched content subscriptions that seamlessly integrate with Destiny to help you strengthen the library-to-classroom connection and address essential learning needs and opportunities. The enhancements detailed below apply to Destiny Library Manager customers who also subscribe to the applicable enriched content subscription service. Subject Search in Alliance Plus Many of our users have asked for the capability to search by subject when cataloging library or media titles using Destiny s database of 8 million+ MARC records, and Destiny 9.0 delivers. You may now search for titles by subject. This functionality is integrated into Destiny Library Manager and does not require a separate subscription. WebPath Express Results Sorted by Domain Expanded filtering capability in WebPath Express now supports the display of results filtered by domain, such as.gov,.edu,.org,.net, etc. This new functionality applies to WebPath Express used with Destiny Quest (pictured, left) and Destiny classic (pictured, right). Delete Lexile Measures Prior to Download Before processing an update, you may need to remove Lexile information, similar to the way you remove Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts information before an update. Destiny 9.0 has added the option, Delete all Lexile information before updating. Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 7 of 8

8 WebPath Express Statistics Report Destiny 9.0 now provides WebPath Express administrators with a better snapshot of patron searches with enhanced statistics reporting. In addition to offering reports on topics searched, WebPath Express will also provide reports on keyword searches, date range and patron type. Lexile/Fountas and Pinnell Hitlist Enhancements Copy category hitlists in version 9.0 will now display Lexile information and Fountas and Pinnell information as well as Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts data if available in the record. Reading Program Service Sorting Improvements One of our most-requested feature enhancements from Reading Program Service users is now supported. Users may sort RPS reports by call number, author or title for easier collection management. Destiny is a registered trademark and Destiny Library Manager, Destiny Media Manager, WebPath Express and TitlePeek are trademarks of Follett Software Company. Book cover images in Destiny are available with a TitlePeek subscription, which is powered by Syndetic Solutions, LLC. EA 10/08 Copyright 2008 Follett Software Company Page 8 of 8