Library settings

Each library in a school carries its own settings. This page is the field-by-field reference for the screen: Library Settings page. It holds the library’s profile, notices, student notices, and deletion; circulation rules and the OPAC each have their own page.

For the school-level fields that apply across libraries, see School settings.

Profile

The library’s name, shown wherever the library is referenced. It’s on the card: Profile card; renaming a library is an admin action.

OPAC

The library’s patron-facing catalog — its web address, visit mode, student sign-in, sharing, and lists — is configured on its own page, Library level navigation path: Configure then OPAC, not here. See OPAC for the whole model, and Setting up the OPAC for the settings themselves.

Circulation rules

Loan periods, hold limits, renewal rules, and the desk rules (due-date ceiling, overdue blocks) live on their own page, Library level navigation path: Configure then Policies, not here. See Circulation policy settings for the field reference, Managing policies for editing them, and Policies for how library defaults combine with faculty, grade-level, and item policies.

Label sheets

Your school’s own label sheets are set up on School settings, not here, because every library in the school shares them. A sheet that prints a little off is corrected there too, on the sheet itself; see Adjusting for your printer.

Automated notices

The card: Automated Notices card on Library Settings shows the status of each notice category; button: Edit opens the settings dialog. The full notice model (when each category fires, and how repeats work) is on Notices; this section is the field reference.

Section	Setting	Default	What it does
Overdue	setting: Send overdue notices	Off	Master switch for overdue email notices.
Overdue	setting: Frequency	Once	Once, Daily, or Weekly. How often overdue notices fire for a given loan.
Overdue	setting: Daily check time	12 AM	The hour the daily overdue check runs.
Due soon	setting: Send due-soon notices	Off	Master switch for due-soon notices.
Due soon	setting: Days before due date	2	How many days (0–60) before the due date a due-soon notice fires.
Due soon	setting: Daily check time	12 AM	The hour the daily due-soon check runs.
Hold ready	setting: Send hold ready notices	Off	Master switch for hold notices (ready, unready, expired).
Hold ready	setting: Ready-hold notice frequency	Once	Once, Daily, or Weekly. How often to send another notice while a patron’s hold is ready for pickup.
Hold ready	setting: Daily check time	12 AM	The hour the daily hold-notice check runs.

Check times are in the school’s time zone. The notice schedule runs per library, two libraries in the same school can have different cadences and different check times.

The card also shows an Unreachable patrons count: patrons with no email address that the current settings would actually send to, with a link to view them. What counts as reachable depends on the Student Notices toggles below; see Where notices go.

Student notices

The card: Student Notices card controls which of a student’s associated contacts get copies of the student’s notices. A student’s own email is always used; these toggles add recipients on top.

Setting	Default	What it does
setting: Guardian emails	Off	Also notify the student’s guardian emails.
setting: Primary teachers	Off	Also notify the primary teacher of the student’s homeroom.
setting: Assistant teachers	Off	Also notify the assistant teachers of the student’s homeroom.

Teacher copies arrive as one digest per teacher, covering all of that teacher’s students. None of these toggles apply to faculty patrons; their notices go only to their own email. The full routing model is on Notices → Where notices go.

Deleting a library

At the bottom of a library’s settings is a card: Delete Library card where a school admin can delete that library, permanently, along with its catalog and circulation data. The confirmation dialog reminds you to export the catalog and resolve active loans first.