Program: School Library Systems and Library Automation
Audience: Newfane Elementary School Library Aide and Teacher providing Destiny Discover/Collections instruction for ES students and staff
Dates: 8/11/2025
Destiny Textbook Manager
Registration, overview of WNYRIC Library Automation Cooperative Service (CoSer), establishment of access for attendees to Destiny Library Manager; Overview of, logging into, navigating, and using help systems (online and on-page, Destiny Discover Help Center, Collections Help Center) in and associated with Destiny Library Manager; Searching for titles including by reading levels, copies, eBooks and/or digital audiobooks (OverDrive only as a link in Library Resources, Orleans/Niagara SLS-provided Gale and Rosen); and online databases via One Search in Destiny Discover and in Destiny Back Office. Accessing the Destiny mobile apps (Destiny Discover mobile app and the Destiny Back Office mobile app [iOS and Android tablets and phones only); Overview of patron empowerment/instructional features including Make a Wish, the transaction record and history (current statistical school year only), Collections (Destiny Discover) and resource lists (Back Office); Adding titles and copies to the catalog through copy cataloging (district records, Alliance Plus, and Z-sources), importing MARC records (including Titlewave integration options), editing copy records (including genre-specific call number prefixes), duplicating copy records, and deleting title and copy records; Overview of patron management in Destiny Library Manager (student and staff data automation via nightly eSchoolData Student and staff extracts [teachers, TAs, aides who take attendance only, generally]); Overview of library policies, calendar, and site configuration and how the settings affect circulation; Circulation basics (check outs, check ins, holds, renewals, copy status, patron status, marking copies lost, etc.). Generating common library and patron reports; Questions and answers.