Author: Elizabeth Thomsen

Libby Enhancements to Magazines

Libby, Overdrive

It’s now easier than ever to find, read and manage magazines in Libby. Now you can find a magazine, open it, browse through the pages and start reading without checking it out. When you close the magazine, you’ll have the option to subscribe and have the latest issue automatically appear in the new Magazine Rack view under Shelf.

Here’s a good introduction to the new magazine options aimed at patrons:
A New Way to Enjoy Magazines in the Libby App

And here’s the updated Libby Help section on Magazines with answers to frequently (and not-so-frequently) asked questions: Libby Help: Reading Magazines

New Monthly List of Scheduled Reports

List Maker

The new monthly report of scheduled reports ran at 4 PM today, and will continue to run on the 10th of every month.  The email message has the subject Scheduled List Maker Report Check and it lists every scheduled report that has your email address. 

The email message has the report name followed by a unique link.  Clicking on this link take you right to the information about the report with two options: Turn Off Report and Edit This Report.  


Choose Turn Off Report if you no longer need the report, or just want to stop it from running for a while, 

Choose Edit This Report if you want to make a change, for example, adding or removing shelving locations, adding a column, etc. 

Once you’ve edited the report, you have two Save options: Update Scheduled Report and Schedule New Report. Using Schedule New Report lets you clone one report as the basis for another.  For example, you may have worked out a perfect report of some kind for adult nonfiction, and you want the exact same report for adult fiction.

One immediate reason to edit some of your scheduled reports is to opt out of the daily emails.  This is a new option, just for daily bucket/bookbag reports.  Just click on the report link, click on Edit Scheduled Report, scroll down to the email address, check the opt-out box, and click Update Scheduled Report.

Please let me know if you have questions!

New Libby Feature: Deep Searching

Overdrive

OverDrive has added a great new feature called Deep Searching that automatically kicks in when a patron searches our collections for a book we don’t own. Instead of just telling the patron there are no hits, it does the following:

  • Title Owned by Another System: If the patron has multiple libraries (consortia) associated with their account in Libby, Deep Search checks to see if any of the patron’s other sites has copies of the title. If one or more of the other sites has a copy available, the Borrow option will display and when the patron can borrow from any of the any site that has it available: CW MARS, for example.
  • Title Not Owned by Another System: If the title is not owned by any of the patron’s libraries, Deep Search checks to see if it matches a title available through OverDrive. If it does, it gives the patron the Notify Me option. This adds a smart tag to the title and if the title is added by one of the patron’s systems, they will be notified.

OverDrive administrators can see a list of the titles with Notify tags added by their patrons for possible Advantage purchases in the new Patron Interests Manager in OverDrive MarketPlace. This can be automated and customized for different selectors — for example, you can set up a plan to automatically create a report or cart for all Adult Fiction and Adult Nonfiction titles that have at least 4 Notify tags from Beverly patrons, with all sorts of combinations of limiters.
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What’s New in Google Workspace

Google Workspace, Training

Google is always adding new features to Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other programs, it’s hard to keep up with them all! Join us online to learn more about smart chips, building blocks, approvals, files and folder shortcuts in Drive, collaboration with people without Google accounts and other useful features too good to miss.

What’s New in Google Workspace
These sessions will be online via Zoom. Please register in advance, and you’ll receive the Zoom link on the morning of the meeting. These sessions will be recorded and offered again in the fall.