Tools Menu
From COMPanion
- Authority Control—Opens the Authority Control window. Select this command if you would like to find, add, duplicate, remove, or view the authority-controlled fields in your database.
- Map Editor—Opens the Map Editor window and allows you to attach a picture or map of your library to Alexandria Bulletin Boards.
- Explore Builder—Opens the Explore Builder window, allowing you to create a fun and attractive iconic interface which patrons can use to search local collections and other such activities.
- Circulation Statistics—Shows the Statistics window. This window allows users to view a quick list of useful circulation statistics.
- Export—Opens the Export utility, allowing you to export items, patrons, or other miscellaneous data from the Alexandria database.
- Import—Opens the standard operating system explorer window used to locate files. Import files can also be “dropped” onto the Circulation window.
- Inventory Helper—Opens the Inventory Helper window, allowing you inventory, modify, and print reports on all the items in your collection.
- Reports—Opens the Reports window, allowing you to find, add, duplicate, remove, or view a report category such as Patrons Reports, Titles Reports, or Circulation Reports.
- Utilities—Opens the Utilities window, allowing you to make global changes on batches of information in your Alexandria database.
- Operation Mangement—Opens the Operation Management window, where reports delivered to the system are available for viewing from any client connected to the Data Station. Linked reports stored in the system are also available for operators so they can manage or remove them, etcetera.
- Mitinet—Opens the Mitinet Management window, allowing you to easily clean, complete, and update your bibliographic records by searching from a number of on-line resources, including: AccessMARC, MARC On Demand, and Mechanic Express.
- SIF Management—Opens the SIF Management window, allowing you to set up and manage your Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF), an industry-supported technical protocol that ensures that diverse primary and secondary (K-12) instructional and administrative software applications share information (data formats) and work together seamlessly.
