Destiny Library Manager Reviews

I like that it is so easy to check out devices and textbooks to students and teachers. I also love that I can run reports to see who has what and when they borrowed it. My favorite part for logging technology is that we can keep notes on each device and when it was damaged or repaired.

I haven't had any issues with Destiny Resource Manager. I guess not being able to easily recheck long lists of items is the only trouble I've run into. I'd like to have more training readily available.

We started using Destiny Resource Manager to check out our textbooks to students in grades 6-12. It was a chore to get it all up and running but it's been pretty smooth sailing. We added one-to-one device checkout in 2020 and I found it to be super manageable and easy to use to track what devices kids have and any damages/repairs the devices may have gotten.

I can manage my students and inventory all in one place.

Sometimes it runs a little slow. But nothing bad.

This is your one-stop shop for your library needs. Very simple to use. And great customer support.

I can manage my students accounts. And they are able to look up books and put them on hold from anywhere. They can login with their Google Login.

DLM is very user-friendly; report builders are among the best feature of the system. Technical assistants are also very accomodating.

Among the downside of the system that I experienced is that the need to update patron details manually

Statistical reports are easily generated. An d with the current situation that the whole country in into, having the collection accessible online is very beneficial to both students and library staff

I like that students can find all texts available with clear symbols for if they are in / out. Students can place holds for our librarian digitally.

Students initially have to be taught how to use all of the abilities of the interface. It is simple to search for a book, but it takes a little more to do an advanced search, show them how many copies there are total, and differentiate between texts, e-books, and more.

With COVID, students are not allowed to go to the library. Destiny allowed students to communicate with the librarian what titles they wanted, and she was able to deliver them to the room.

I like that whenever I need help I get it in minutes. The customer service is excellent.

The weeding protocol seems a bit clunky.

The reports I can run makes it easy for me to make decisions about weeding, collection development, and how to "market" books to kids.

Simple, streamlined interface. Fast to load, fast to use. Keeps track of books, inventory, late fees, etc..

-Ability for librarians to print of barcoded class lists for easy bulk scanning.

-Easy full library inventory options each end of year

-Automated user importing

-Ability to use Google Accounts to login

-Ability to use Active Directory for authentication

-Ability for students to log in and create book lists

-Ability for teachers to create book lists for their classes.

Reporting can be done by almost any criteria that's kept on books and users.

Unable to have multiple tabs open concurrently. Other than that, it's a perfect solution for us.

For a school district, make sure that you can export student information frequently. Once automated exports and imports are setup, the user management is very straightforward.

As with every implementation, be sure to define who will be doing the various roles with the product.

Keeping track of library materials at 35 schools, in addition to keeping track of them district-wide.

Loaning materials between schools. Keeping track of overdue materials. Built-in communication features for overdue materials.

Follett’s Destiny library management software is very easy to use. User friendly. Comparable to programs I’ve used in the past like Alexandria library management so easy to transfer over.

I can’t add or delete students or staff. Some of the reports are not as detailed as they were with Alexandria library management system.

It’s a great program. Tried and true.

I am able to add materials to the library collection easily. I can type in the ISBN. Number and literally click add title and the book is cataloged. Super easy. Time saving.

I really like the ease in which you can use Destiny and how popular it is. Ordering books from other clearing houses than Follett could be a nightmare with a different system. Destiny realizes that due to funding issues, libraries have to purchase from multiple vendors.

Sometimes their updates will have a bug or two, but they are great at listening to us and getting them fixed.

Everything is integrated and it is so very simple to use. You can even upload MARC records from your Follett book order into Destiny with ease.

I love love LOVE how easily I can make a book order of over 1,000 books and that my lists from past years save! Each school I had to order new books for the library. Once in the Fall and another in the Spring. I was able to title my lists by school year as well. Once I had enough lists generated over the school years I noticed that there were color coded tags warning me whether I had the same title already saved in my current list or previous list. It also made it simple for me to reorder the same book titles. I also discovered many authors through Follet Titlewave while creating my list of books for my order that school year.

There wasn't too much I disliked about Follet. If there is something that they could improve on would be the way we seek help through the website. Perhaps having a live agent available would be great. some of those book lists literally take days to generate and our directors aren't always available to help. So if we could already have any restrictions available based on our grade levels or even campus policies that'd be amazing. I accidentally order a book that was not accepted by our district and a students parent complained. So a warning or alert on the website would be great because the reading level was considered for MG (Middle Grades) but not all students are ready for certain content in those grades.

I recommend being very organized when it comes to creating different lists on your account. Specially if you have to share the same account for your campus with different teacher and administrators. You can always edit the lists but it would make your life much simpler if you have a clean neat start. Be careful when filtering as well. FolletBound is almost always the same as Hardcover but the pricing is less. There are so many filters that you sometimes lose the chance of saving a couple of bucks when you make small mistakes such as that one.

Book ordering for Libraries district wide and orders for textbooks as well. Most of the titles can easily be reserved if they aren't out and you can submit and forget then remember only once your order arrives. Having that as an option when purchasing is amazing. Reordering is simple as well because you can generate a new list of books by copying an older one. Making my work faster by splitting the time in half.

It keeps a pretty thorough database with histories, which helps when determining who checked out what, when and where. I like that it stores multiple methods by which to locate a file and its associated details.

My least favorite feature is that it doesn't work well with Rycor so any fines must be manually exported and imported into student accounts. The reverse is also true - when a student pays a fine for a lost or stolen book on Rycor, it must be manually noted in Follett. Several extra steps seem unnecessary in today's age of technology. In addition, you have to know whether you are searching for a textbook vs library book because they are termed differently, which makes searching sometimes challenging.

It does an excellent job of tracking checked-out items and assessing fines when due dates are exceeded. I also like the histories for each item - you can tell who checked something out, who had it before, who checked it in, checked it out, etc. That comes in handy when searching for details regarding an older fine on a student's account.