Destiny TutorialReports and Utilities

Backing Up/Rebuilding the System

O The Douglas County School District performs backups centrally for all of the media centers in the school system. Each media center utilizes Destiny 10.5, and the backups occur automatically. This is performed reliably at a district level for all of the media centers. It is not the duty of the media specialist in the Douglas County School System. However, if a need arises, the system can be backed up by the instructions on the next slide.

O Follett’s document titled Backing up your Destiny for Schools Application database, provides the following steps found at http://www.fsc.follett.com/_file/file/Backing-up-Destiny-for-Schools-Database.pdf to configure the backup program.

Running Circulation Reports

1. Click on the Reports tab

at the top.

2. Click on Library Reports

on the left side of the

screen.

3. Select either Collection

Statistics-Historical or

Collection Statistics-

Summary to run circulation

reports.

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Circulation Reports Continued

Collection Statistics-

Historical Report Set

Up Screen

Sample Statistics Summary

Inventory

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1) Click on Back

Office tab at the top.

2) Click on Inventory

on the left side.

Once you select “Start New” you can scan

every item in the collection and upload it

here. Once finished, you can run reports

based on items missing or out of order, etc.

You can mark things lost or delete materials

as needed. When complete, you select

“finalize.”

Inventory Report

1. Click on Reports tab at

the top.

2. Click on Library Reports

on the left side.

3. Select Inventory Control

options – Completed

Inventories or In Progress

Inventories

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Collection Age Report

1. Run a Collection Statistics Historical Report (Slides 3-4)

2. Click on the tab at the top right that says “Age.”

3. This will give you the age of your collection as shown below.

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Printing Bar Codes/Spine Labels

1. Click on Reports tab at the

top.

2. Click on Library Reports on

the left side.

3. Select from the Labels

Section.

• You can run a report of the

Barcode Labels and create

new or replacement

barcodes.

• You can create Reading

Program Labels or you can

create Spine/Pocket Labels.

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Running an Unused Bar Code Report

1. Select Barcode Lists under

Catalog

2. Run a report showing used

and unused barcode

numbers

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Running Custom IndexesO A custom index is when you can generate a list of all books with a

certain characteristic using a search field OTHER than

author, title, subject. You might do a custom index by Dewey number or

reading level.

1) Click on the Reports tab at

the top.

2) Click on the Library

Reports on the left side.

3) Select Create Bibliography

and then choose the ways you

want to create your list.

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Self-Assess

O When running a barcode report, I begin at

the _______________ tab.

O I should run a _________________ to

determine the age of my collection.

O Where does the “Backing up/Rebuilding of

the catalog normally occur?

O Inventory is found under the ___________

tab.

Answers

O When running a barcode report, I begin at

the Reports tab.

O I should run a Collection Statistics-Historical

or Collection Statistics-Summary to

determine the age of my collection.

O Where does the “Backing up/Rebuilding of

the catalog normally occur? District’s County

Office

O Inventory is found under the Back Office tab.