Frequently
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General Questions
General Questions
- How do I change my term loan, semester loan and year loan dates?
- How do I start a stocktake?
- How do I add a new location?
- How can I delete multiple items?
- How do I increase the number of items shown in a stockitem table?
- How can I change some of the text in my overdue notices/reservation notices?
- How can I add more spacing in my reports or reduce the amount of space?
- How can I add lines or get rid of lines in my overdue letters?
- How do I find my report templates?
- How do I import student records from our administration system into Amlib?
- I want to add the same authority heading (e.g. subject, series) to multiple catalogue records. Is there a way to add the heading to all the records at the same time?
- How do I update the calendar with public holidays and closed days? Are there any parameters that relate to the calendar? How do other loan parameters relate to this?
- I've never done a stocktake before. What does it involve? What should I consider when planning for a stocktake?
- How do I start a stocktake?
- I've started the stocktake, now how do I stocktake my collection/items?
- I'm using a laptop to scan my items. How can I capture the barcodes to load into the stocktake screen? How do we use the offline module for stocktakes?
- How do I find missing items?
- How can I print a list of missing items?
- I just want to stocktake one part of the library, not the whole database, how can I do that?
- How do I close the stocktake? What happens to the missing items?
- When I try to issue items, they will only issue for one day, even through they are set as a term loan (or year loan, etc.)
- I have added a new location, but it's not in the stockitem or borrower lists.
- Whenever I search in stockitem, I only get 100 items. I'm sure there are more results than this, how can I see them all?
- The title in my reports gets cut short - can I increase the space to allow for longer titles?
- When I try to open a report template, it asks me what program to open it with - what do I do now?
- I can open my file in the borrower import screen, but the import button is gray - how can I import my file?
- Some of the teachers will be teaching different classes next year/this year - how can I change the class label on my overdue notices?
- I want teachers to have a later end of year return date than students - is there any way to set loan parameters differently for two different borrower types?
- How can I add new staff and/or students to the library database?
- How can I mass delete any borrowers who have left the school (e.g. Year 7 or Year 12 students)?
- Should I be checking my backups? How often should I check backups? How do I check if the backup is successful? (SQLBase users only)
- Delete students who have left e.g. Year 7s, Year 12s, Staff
- Change teachers names in class descriptions
- Import new students into the Amlib database via Borrower Import. This will also update changed addresses or contact details and borrower groups/classes.
- Add new staff manually
- Change term, semester and year loan dates
- Add final dates to borrower types as applicable (e.g. for year groups that leave early such as Year 11s and 12s.)
- Add closed days to the calendar
- Check backups and backup log files:
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