Sure, BUT it takes a smidge longer. You type in their name, grab your mouse and
hit the find patron button, (because if you just hit enter, it will ALWAYS do a
book search first; if you have a book in your collection with that name in the
record it will pull that up. So then you have to go back, type in the name again
and hit the find patron button. Then looking through the list that comes up, which
can be as short as the one name you needed, or every kid with that name will come
up. Then you click the name you want and you are finally ready to check out their
books. First versions of Destiny you had to use the * if you wanted to truncate
the name, Gustafson, j had to have a star or it wouldn't find the name. Now I
believe it will find it without the star.
If you use their ID number, you type that in, hit enter and their screen pops up
ready to scan books to check out. No extra navigating.
Since I do not do the query from our attendance program to Destiny, I'm not sure
but, don't you need the ID number to update your students locations? We use first
period for location 1 so we can run over due notices. At the elementary level you
definitely use that to show which class they belong too.
BUT ALSO, you use the ID number; when you enter your new pictures each year they
will drop in like magic. Picture companies use the student ID number to organize
the pictures on the disk they send for the attendance programs. Which we then use
for Destiny. We have about 600 staff and students to update pictures for, I would
not like to do that by hand.
You can also require the students ID badges to have the barcode on them, just scan
that, up pops their record and you are set to checkout. Our students know their
numbers, they use it in the cafeteria, the library and to sign into a computer.
Jean
R. Jean Gustafson
Teacher/Librarian
Selah Jr. High
Selah, WA 98942
jeangustafson@selah.k12.wa.us
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Paula Yohe
Sent: Wed 12/5/2007 3:08 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Question regarding Destiny
Yes you can
--- Martin Swist <mswist@ASIJ.AC.JP> wrote:
> Hello to those of us with a shared Destiny,
>
> We will be making the switch from Spectrum to
> Destiny soon. I am a little more confused than usual
> by the discussion on students' long ID numbers as
> the entry into the Destiny circulation program. Can
> you not access a student by his/her last name in the
> circulation system? TIA.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin Swist
> mswist@asij.ac.jp
> Middle School LMS
> Middle School XC Coach
> The American School In Japan
> 1-1-1 Nomizu, Chofu-shi, Tokyo
> "The heart is a little to the left." (Rev.) William
> Sloane Coffin
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: School Library Media & Network Communications
> on behalf of Priscilla Cox
> Sent: Wed 12/5/2007 12:46 AM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: [LM_NET] Question regarding Destiny
>
>
>
> Hello to all,
>
> Our district has recently decided to go with a
> district wide circulation system and we have chosen
> Destiny. We are still in the set up phase of this
> but one question has arisen that is causing slight
> panic in our media specialists. Our schools are all
> small and because of this we have always just
> assigned our students a simple to remember patron id
> number that they use to check out books. The student
> gives the number; we type it in and then scan their
> books. With Destiny we will be using the student's
> district number which is 10 digits long. There is no
> way our students can remember a 10 digit number,
> especially at our elementary school level. So my
> question is this; how do you check out books using
> Destiny? Do you make each student a library card
> that they have to carry around with them? What do
> you do? Thanks in advance and I will post a hit if
> anyone would like me to.
>
> Thanks,
> Priscilla Cox
> Media Specialist/TV Pro/Yearbook
> pcox@gulf.k12.fl.us<mailto:pcox@gulf.k12.fl.us>
> 850-639-5729
> Wewahitchka High School
> Wewahitchka, FL 32465
>
>
>
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Dillon School District Two
405 West Washington Street
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214
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