Polaris 7.7 Highlight Session
Jan 15 2025 | 11am - 12pm


Our Polaris environment was upgraded to version 7.7 on January 6th, 2025. This session, presented by ODIN Office staff, highlights some of the exciting new features that came with the upgrade.

Agenda:

Intro/General Updates (Nicole)

  • MEEP Enhancements
    • Brief background on the enhancement process
    • 5 MEEP enhancements were included in 7.7 (plus 1 bonus)
  • Sys Admin – Web
  • New Find Tool features
    • Sticky Filters, View recent search history, Select multiple items/chunks of items

Circulation (Ginny)

  • Make non-blocking circulation blocks optional
    • Money owed
    • Held item (s)
    • Unread messages
    • Accrued money owed
  • Create a record set from Saved/Scheduled reports in Simply Reports

Discovery/PAC (Lynn)

  • Configuring Display of Reading Level facet – dependent on MARC 521 field 

Cataloging (Liz)

  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Comparing bibliographic records in Leap
  • Checking for duplicate bibliographic records without saving

Acquisitions (Tina)

  • Support for sub-funds and manually adjusting fund balances
    • Viewing/creating/editing sub-funds

Q&A

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