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New Features
- Fresh Look but similar menus
- Reliable and Faster Database
- Dashboard with charts
- Charts are available based on your information
- In Items, Auto Filter Line and Find panel making searching easier and more
powerful
- Auto Filter line – instantly search a specific grid column based on criteria
you enter
- Find panel – perform keyword searching across all columns in the grid
- Batch ISBN Retrieval
- In the Plus, Extended and Premium versions of ResourceMate, when your support is up to date, you can now process a list of isbns through the ResourceMate ISBN retrieval process. This allows you to add 10, 100 or 1,000 items at a time using isbn retrieval.
- In the Extended and Premium version with up to date support, ISBN
Retrieval will also search our Accelerated Reader™ and Scholastic
Reading Counts® databases. This is great for Scholastic books.
- Item Multimedia – store or link to files, also store web addresses
- Also use your web camera or scanner to capture pictures.
- Unlimited Number of User Defined Fields for items as well as patrons
- Easily generate Listing Reports from Grids
- A great way to create any listing report simply by dragging and dropping field
names.
- Field Customization – customize your item entry screen as well as data
requirements
- change the display label,
- enter a default value,
- hide a field that I don’t need,
- indicate whether the field is a required field,
- choose whether the field will be copied when creating multiple copies of an
item,
- choose whether I want a lookup list and whether anyone can add to that list,
- determine whether this field will be searched when someone does an author search,
- exclude this field from the audit trail in the Extended and Premium versions
- exclude from the multiple line OPAC screen
- include in keyword searching.
- With the Plus, Extended and Premium versions these field customizations can
be setup per resource type, not just system wide.
- Unicode based
- You can easily catalog or import in multiple languages if you wish. Russian
can be intermixed with Hebrew, Chinese or Arabic.
- Patron
- The picture will display when that person is checking out items. It is also
available in the patron grid as well as patron listings.
- Patron Circulation activities now consolidated together
- From one screen you can Check out, Check in and renew, View and process reserves,
View and pay fines as well as view circulation history in the Plus, Extended
and Premium versions
- Also view other contact information for that patron
- Reserves / Holds are now more extensive
- Status can be changed to reflect how far the reserve has gone through the process.
E-mail notifications can be sent to the patron who made the reserve. A book
slip can be printed. A reserve can be created for a specific date range.
- Display any item or patron information on the Circulations grid
- Also generate ad hoc circulation reports by dragging and dropping field names.
- Print Barcode Labels
- The Plus, Extended and Premium versions of ResourceMate can print barcode labels.
You can either print a group of new barcode labels that you will use in the
future or you can print or re-print bar codes for items already entered in
ResourceMate.
