Question: 1. How can I see who has checked out a particular book?

Answer: You can review active loans in the Manage Loans window. Under the Show area, click "All Loaned Out" to see a list of all outstanding and overdue items. You can sort these results by borrower name, book title, author, or any other listed data field.

If you simply want to check the status of a specific book to see if it is currently loaned out, you can do so directly in the Library table. Enter the book title, barcode number, or author, and click Search.

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Question: 2. How do I find a report on how many items were borrowed during a certain timeframe?

Answer: When a new item is added, the system automatically logs the date in the DATE_ADDED field. To check the number of items added or handled during a specific time period, use the "Advanced Search" feature to set your starting and ending dates.

For example, to find items added within a specific window, your search definition box should look like this: DATE_ADDED > '03/08/2018' and then use the AND operator to add the second definition: DATE_ADDED < '05/08/2018'.

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Question: 3. How do I print a report of all books that need to be returned or see which users owe books?

Answer: You can easily generate and print this data from the Manage Loans window. In the Show area, select "Overdue". This will isolate all past-due items, allowing you to define, view, and print a clean report of both the outstanding books and the users who need to return them.


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