Administration

=How Tos and Tips to Administer Your OPALS= toc

Administration guide is at @http://www.opals-na.org/help/administration.html

Making & Printing Your Own Barcodes
Need to make just a couple of barcodes and OPALS isn't printing right? Watch this movie to make your own. Make it fullscreen to see details. media type="custom" key="4410757" width="40" height="40"

Turn on Charging for Lost Items
Go into Administration>Preferences>System Preference. Look for the charge_lost line. Click edit. Change the 0 to a 1 then save. Go to the person in circulation and click the item then lost. You'll get a pop up with the lost/forgive/payment stuff in it.

Print Damaged Book List
Go to Administration > Reports/Tools > Damaged Items. The Damaged Books report is below the Lost Items report.

Upload Collection into Titlewave
After exporting your MARC records from OPALS into a file on your computer...
 * 1) Log into Titlewave.
 * 2) Click on Collection Management.
 * 3) Click Submit Collection.
 * 4) Fill in school information. If this is your first time, read their Getting Started information. Click Next.
 * 5) The Record Format is MARC 21/USMARC.
 * 6) The Circulation System is generic MARC/852 holdings. Click Next.
 * 7) Enter your book categories. Click Next.
 * 8) Ignore any Prefixes you do not want as part of the analysis. (For example, I choose to ignore all my equipment so I enter the equipment prefixes.) Click Next.
 * 9) Browse your computer to find the file with your MARC records from OPALS. Click Finish.

Your analysis will now live in Titlewave but you can also save a copy of the .PDF onto your computer. You will probably need to do a few analyzes a year to keep Titlewave and OPALS synced.