Getting the best responses to your inquiries
To get the best results when typing a prompt, use clear and specific queries. As a starting point, you can use the question bank, and then customize questions to meet your needs.
You can ask general questions about how to do your job, such as best practices for weeding your collection.
Also, you can ask how to do something in Destiny, such as remove an item.
See the following Library Manager and Resource Manager examples.
Effective library prompt examples- What percent of circulations are fiction vs. non-fiction?
- Break down my collection by Dewey. Show the percentages of my total collection.
- Add circulation counts to that report.
- Break down my collection by language.
- What titles are in English, and list the number of copies in my collection.
- Add the publication year to that report.
- Show circulations by interest grade level for this school year.
- How about the last 3 weeks?
- Break down my collection by material type.
- What is the total value of my collection?
- What books in my catalog are fiction?
- List the non-fiction books published before 2010.
- What are the most popular books checked out in the last 6 months?
- How about just eBooks?
- List eBooks in my catalog. Show the title and publication year.
- What eBook titles have been checked out this school year? Show the circulation count.
- How many items are in the system?
- How many items have a status of lost?
- How many items are damaged?
- How many Chromebook items are lost?
- How many resources don't have a replacement price value?
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How many items are assigned to the English department?
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How many items have been paid for by each funding source?
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How many items are checked out to individuals?
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How many items are checked out?
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How many items are checked out to the IT department ?
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How many items are overdue right now?
- What's up with overdue stuff?
- Give me everything about eBooks.
- Compare my circulation statistics to other schools in my district.