The first thing I attended today at the Follett Software Users Conference focused on report builder. In this day and age, data is an important piece in telling the story of a school library. Destiny has many created reports that are easy to run, but sometimes we want to know even more. Report Builder gives us access to create the reports we need or want.
I’ll be honest that I’ve used Report Builder before, but I never felt like I was getting all out of it could. There are lots of options you can choose and data fields you can pull from. Sometimes my reports came out in these piles of stuff that wasn’t help for me (or anyone else for that matter!). I think the biggest take away from the session was to really take a minute and think out what information do I need and making the fewest choices within Report Builder to get that information. The Follett trainer did a great job in walking us step by step through the Report Builder explaining what each option could or couldn’t do. I think it will make me think just a little bit more as I’m going through each step so I can make sure to get the result I want.
My other take away was I need to do a better job of sharing some of the online trainings and resources Follett has made available for Destiny. I think those eModules could be very helpful to the librarians in our district.
As I have a feeling will become a trend for this conference, the session was also full of other questions, thoughts, and ideas from user. Some very specific to their individual schools, but some that apply to everyone. I think this conference is likely to be very rich in conversations about “How do you do this….” or “How can I do this….”
The conference is off to a great start!
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