Follett Destiny Fundraising Manager (formerly Livingtree) is a hub for all fundraising activities in a district, letting staff create, get approval for, and manage fundraising campaigns in one easy-to-use application.

The Destiny New User Experience now supports single sign-on (SSO) with this application. The Fundraising Manager link appears in the grey header and via the applications icon.

Your access level and permissions determine whether you see the Fundraising Manager link.

For more information, see Access Fundraising Manager. Some initial configuration is required to use Follett Destiny Fundraising Manager. To learn how it can benefit your school district, visit Follett School Solutions.

 

Your district can enable a new user experience that offers a wide range of benefits and makes getting around Destiny easier for all users.

Redesigned District Landing Page

The updated district landing page lets district-level users quickly jump to other areas of Destiny with the navigation options at the top of the page. Large districts can see at a glance how the district is set up, and find specific schools.

Improved Navigation

The new user experience lets users access all areas of Destiny with ease. In the top-right corner, click to switch between Destiny Back Office, Destiny Discover, and Collections by Destiny from any area of the product. The system remembers where you left off if you go back during the same session.

And, librarians can now more efficiently jump between tasks, such as circulation and helping students search for resources.

You can also click to access other parts of Destiny and services offered by Follett, including:

• Discover Admin
• Site and district dashboards
• District Back Office

• Titlewave

• Destiny Express

• Follett Community

Note: The options you see are dependent on access level permissions.

Easier to Switch Between Sites

District users with site access, as well as site users associated with multiple sites, can now move from district-to-site or site-to-site more efficiently. From the header in Destiny Back Office, Destiny Discover, and Collections, click to switch between sites or view all sites.

More Accessible Notifications
The new Notifications icon is available from the header, regardless of whether you are in Destiny Back Office, Destiny Discover, or Collections. Replacing the Processing Needed icon that appeared in Destiny Back Office, it includes any pending tasks, such as requests for holds, interlibrary loans, and resource transfers. It also includes Follett News, such as system maintenance notifications. A red indicator appears when you have items that need processing or news that hasn't been viewed.

Unified Timeouts

Users will now experience the same timeout behavior in all areas of Destiny. When a user times out due to inactivity, they will get a message that their session has expired. Once logged back in, they will return to the application last used before being timed out.

Note: The length of time a user can be idle before Destiny logs them out is defined in Access Levels.

New Dashboards

New district- and site-level dashboards let you see key metrics immediately after logging in. This gives you easy access to insightful library and resource usage data.

Note: Access to the site and district dashboards requires the appropriate permissions.

You can see information, such as:

• Current checkouts, materials checked-in today, holds, resources lost/stolen, overdues, and interlibrary loans.
• Number of active Destiny Discover users.
• Circulation and holds activity trends.
• Most popular titles and series.
• Resource funding source and status.
• Library purchasing recommendations.

Note: The new district- and site-level dashboards replace the Dashboard tab for new user experience users.

Recommendations for Your Library

The new site-level dashboard gives you the option to enable a "Recommendations for your Library" feature, which shows purchasing recommendations for your school in the following categories:

• Top Picks: Customized book purchasing recommendations 
• New Series: Series you don't own that match your school's interests 
• Complete Your Series: Books you're missing from series you already own 

The Recommendations widget is only available for Follett Destiny Cloud customers.

For information on enabling the new user experience, see New Destiny User Experience.

To better track and report on your weeded and deleted materials at the district level, several enhancements have been made to Library Manager.

Assign a reason and disposal method

You can now configure a list of reasons a title might be weeded, as well as disposal methods. This gives districts a consistent way to track weeded titles. Destiny includes the following by default:

• Reason: Infrequent Circulation, Outdated, and Poor Condition/Damage
• Disposal Method: Book Sales, Discard, Donation, and Recycle

When you delete a title/copy, you are prompted to assign a Reason, and optionally, a Disposal Method. Additional Reasons and Disposal Methods can be added at the district level, as needed.

This feature is enabled by default, and can be disabled.

To disable the Reason and Disposal Method drop-downs:

Note: This feature is configured at the district level by a district user with the Manage Library Materials for the District permission.

1. To go to District Back Office, from the top-right corner of the District page, click District or (depending on whether the new user experience is set up in your district).
2. Select Admin > Configuration.
3. Next to Weeded/Deleted Management, click Edit.
4. Click the Settings sub-tab.
5. Deselect the Track Reasons & Disposal Methods checkbox.
6. Click Save.

Track deleted copies as weeded

When you weed or delete a title/copy, the "Track as weeded" or "Track any deleted copies as weeded" checkbox is now selected by default to promote more accurate reporting.

This checkbox, as well as the Reason and Disposal Method drop-downs, appear when deleting a title or copy from the following locations:

• Catalog > Library Search > Details > Title Details sub-tab
• Catalog > Library Search > Details > Copies sub-tab
• Catalog > Update Copies > Individual Delete sub-tab
• Catalog > Update Copies > Batch Delete sub-tab
• Catalog > Export

  Note: The checkbox does not appear when deleting titles/copies during an export. Those deleted items are automatically tracked as weeded.

Generate a more detailed Weeding Log

The Weeding Log now includes more data (Sublocation, Reason, Funding Source, Last Circulated, Disposal Method, and Total Circulations) and additional limiters (Removed, Acquired, Last Circulated, and Call Number).

For more information, see Configure weeding reasons and disposal methods.

District-level users can create district-level title classifications, and determine if each classification is visible to all or hidden from non-Admin. Titles that are visible only to admin users will not be included in search results. A district can add as many title classifications as they want, and name them based on district preferences.

Examples: A district starts bulk processing new titles for an individual site. By creating and assigning a Processing classification, only admin can see these titles until processing is complete. In a school with grades 7-12, a district can add a title classification of Young Adult, and set the visibility to All Users. The title classification will show to everyone at the bottom of the page, so students will see that this is a title for older students. A district can set their Professional Development titles as Teacher Only.

This district-level feature includes:

• Managing title classifications
• Setting visibility
• Reporting capabilities

For more information on assigning title classifications, see Manage title classifications at the district.

The Destiny Administrator can add, edit, and delete words patrons cannot search for while using Library Manager, which includes Destiny Back Office, Destiny Discover, Collections by Destiny, and the Destiny Discover Android and iOS apps.

For more information, see Unsearchable Words.

When districts remove resources from Resource Manager that will no longer be used, they can now have Destiny automatically delete any fines owed for those resources. Fines no longer have to be deleted through a separate process.

A Destiny Administrator can push the new circulation option to specific sites, or a site-level administrator can select it in Site Configuration.

When a resource is deleted at the district level, fines are automatically deleted at any sites that opted in to delete fines.

Example: Seven sites in a nine-site district opt to automatically delete fines. When a resource (such as a textbook going out of adoption or device being replaced with newer technology) is deleted at the district, fines will be waived and deleted at the seven sites.

When resources are deleted, a message lists the number of resources to be deleted, their barcodes, and the number of fines being waived.

For more information, see Select Site Configuration options..

Districts now have a reminder that changes to resource templates apply to the entire district. A message informing users that changes to settings are district-wide appears at the top of the following pages:

• Edit Resource Type Templates
• Add Template
• Duplicate Template
• Edit "Resource Type" Template

For more information, see Resource Type Templates.

In the Current Checkouts/Fines report, districts that include data in the District Identifier field will now see the Identifier in all output formats. It appears next to the item's barcode number.

Formatted as a report in Excel output:

Formatted as a report in PDF output:

For more information, see Run the Current Checkouts/Fines report.

Districts that use help ticket functionality in Resource Manager can now assign a Create Help Tickets permission to access levels that create tickets for others. This permission will be automatically given to the Administrator and Resource Administrator access levels.

Users with the Create Help ticket for Self permission will only be able to create help tickets in My Info for resources they have checked out.

For more information, see Create help tickets.

Districts can now use Follett's MDM integration for Microsoft Intune to manage devices, and reduce redundant data maintenance. Districts can use static or dynamic groups to select what devices to synchronize with Destiny. Intune’s Extension Attribute fields can be mapped to Destiny fields, giving additional flexibility for other data points, such as barcode/asset tag. For those districts without any site information in Intune, a new option exists to leave the setup without group-to-site mapping and to select a default Destiny site to be used when new items are being added to Destiny.

For more information on how to set up MDM integration, see Overview of Destiny Resource Manager's MDM Integration: Microsoft Intune in the Mobile Device Management Integration Help Center.