5 Features I LOVE About The NEW Destiny Version 21.0!

I am so excited about the NEW Destiny Version 21.0! 

The new Destiny version is loaded with so many amazing updates and new additions.  We are having a great time getting to know it in our library and today, I want to share 5 features I LOVE about the NEW Destiny Version 21.1 with all of you. 

1. To start, users can now easily access all areas of Destiny from the new waffle menu in the top-right corner. 

When you click on the waffle menu, the drop down menu features all of these different choices shown above and let's you easily go back and forth between them from the waffle menu.  It remembers where you left off which makes it so handy to do all of the tasks we do as librarians. 

For example, you can be working in Destiny Back Office and a student can come up to the circulation desk asking for help finding books about animals.  You can go to Destiny Discover to help the student, and then go back to what you were working on in Back Office. 

2.  There is a NEW district-level and site-level Library Dashboard. You can see it circled in the image above. 

I love this new addition so much as it gives us access to useful and exciting library and resource usage data. 

You can look at the date in special time frames and by grade levels. 

When I look at my Dashboard, I can get a snapshot of Active Highlights such as Checkouts, Holds, Books Checked-in Today, Copies Added, and more. 

And I just love the Reporting features shown including Library Circulations, Most Popular Titles and Series, and Library Circulations down to the Sublocations. 

Your Library Dashboard can be customized, and the Reporting features can even be moved on the Dashboard. 

3. And guess what?  

Within the new site-level Dashboard, there is a place to that even recommends books for your library! 

At the bottom of the Customize your Library Dashboard page, you can enable Show book recommendations for your library. 

This will then show you Top Picks, New Series, and Complete Your Series categories. These are customized book recommendations based on best sellers, your school's interests, and your library collection. 

I love that these will fit the needs and interests of our readers. 

4.  From the Recommendations for your Library widget, I can also click on the choice and it will take me right into....

....our Titlewave, where I can build lists and order books.  

This is such an amazing collection development tool. It will not only save me time, but will help me build a collection for our readers wants and needs.  

I can also get to Titlewave from the waffle menu too. 

5. I also want to point out how awesome it is to have the Most Popular Titles and Series widget on the Dashboard.  

This gives us a glimpse into what our students are checking out and will also help us as we add and highlight more of these titles and series in our library. 

We are going to have lots of fun with this information, as it will be at our fingertips every day. 

As you can see, there are so many features to love about the NEW Destiny Version 21.0.  This is just the start, and I will be sharing more as we work on collection analysis, weeding and collection development during the last few weeks of school in our library. 

To find out more, you can go to Follett Community to What's New with Destiny 21.0 here.

I know you will love all of the updates too!  

Exciting News! StickTgoether® Joins The Demco® Family! Read All About It Here, Friends.

 

I have exciting news to share, friends. 

StickTogether® has officially joined the Demco® family. 

You can read all about it in the press release here.

I can't wait for all of the special things to come. 

Kicking Off The TOP 10 Monthly Capstone Interactive eBooks Lists and Choice Boards! All You Need To Know About CI Too!

 

Our students LOVE reading eBooks in Capstone Interactive!  

They go to Capstone Interactive to read eBooks that are connected to content from the curriculum; eBooks for book clubs; eBooks that are interesting to them; eBooks that are new to Capstone Interactive; and much more.

Capstone Interactive eBooks is definitely our go-to for all students and teachers within our school. 

With Capstone Interactive eBooks, we love: 

• Read aloud audio voice over from real actors

• Multi-user simultaneous access to all eBooks by every student in our school

• Post one-click access with the easy copy-link feature...great for our Google Classroom, Seesaw, etc.

• Over 5,500 Capstone Interactive eBooks to support all of our needs

• eBook platform and reader are Section 508 compliant and W.C.A.G. rated

• And most of all, our kids love the Capstone Interactive eBooks, just like the Capstone books we have in our library, classrooms and pop-up libraries around the school. 

I love finding ways to get our readers even more excited about reading within Capstone Interactive, so my friends at Capstone and I have come up with this fun new idea!  

We will be sharing the Top 10 Capstone Interactive eBooks read each month using the data collected from readers across the country.  

The Top 10 Capstone Interactive eBooks read in March 2024 can be found here in this choice board. 

If you want to make a copy of this choice board, you can here. 

For my students, I am going to make this into a choice board by...

... linking the book covers to the link from each Capstone Interactive eBook.  I will then Publish the choice board and share that link with our students in their Google Classroom. 

I hope your students love the Top 10 Capstone Interactive eBooks lists and choice boards too, friends. 

You will find all of the eBooks, and print books, here on the NEW CapstonePub.com site.