Export Titles

There are various reasons you might need to export titles from Destiny, such as to:

  • Make copies of some or all of the title records in your collection.
  • Share records with other libraries.
  • Re-arrange your collection with other schools because of a change in the district.
  • Send your data to Follett School Solutions, Inc. or another vendor for enhancement.

To export your records:

Note: If you are a district library materials manager, choose to export from the district collection or from a particular site. If you choose the district, you cannot select by barcode or by copy category, or choose to delete the records after import.
  1. Select Catalog > Export Titles.
  2. Use the Select drop-down to select the method for identifying the records:
    • All: Includes all titles in your collection.
    • All Follett Digital Materials: Includes only Follett Digital materials.
    • by barcode: Either browse to, or create, a list:
      • Click Browse to find and select your file.
      • Place the cursor in the Create a barcode list field, and scan the barcodes, or type them in and click Add. To remove a barcode number from the list, select it and click Remove.
    • by copy category: If you have multiple Copy Categories, select the one with the records you are exporting.
    • from List: If you have multiple Resource Lists, select the list containing the records you are exporting.
      To view the contents of the selected list, click View List.
  3. Next to Include, select All records, Full records only or Brief records only (those that do not contain tags between 305 and 899).
  4. Select any of the following options:
    If you select this optionThen...
    Include copy information

    The export includes the following based on what you selected in step 2:

    • If you selected All or from a list, all of the titles' copies are included.
    • If you selected by barcode, only the copies scanned are included.
    • If you selected by Copy Category, only the copies assigned to the category are included.

    Note: If you are a district user and chose an individual site, only the copies belonging to that site are exported with the title records.

    Delete titles/copies after export

    Important: Use this option with caution.

    Exported titles and copies are deleted from your collection at the end of the process.

    Notes:

    • Destiny does not delete a title record that is shared with other sites in the district; however, it removes it from your collection.
    • Checked-out copies are not deleted.
  5. Select the character set to be used for the export file. For most records, ALA suffices. If your records contain characters or diacritics not supported in ALA, select UTF-8.
  6. Click Export.

Destiny creates a Job Summary listing the titles and copies deleted. It also includes a link to download the export file.

Note:

If you include copy information:

  • The Short Site Name of the owning site is entered in subfield 852_a.
  • The export file includes all the copy fields except Notes. These fields are actually text files that have no corresponding subfield in the 852 tag.