2008 Press Releases
| 12/04/08 | Follett Software, Linworth Publishing/LMC Sponsor Award for Library/Classroom Innovation
Follett Software Company and Linworth Publishing Inc./Library Media Connection magazine are sponsoring the second annual SIGMS Technology Innovation Award. The award will be presented to teams of a school librarian and collaborating teacher who have conducted an exemplary technology program extending beyond the library to meet the needs of classroom students and teachers. |
| 10/29/08 | Follett’s Destiny® Now Integrates SAFARI Montage® Video
Follett Software’s Destiny Library Manager which gives students more direct access to videos on SAFARI Montage, making it easier for schools to incorporate Video On Demand in lesson planning. |
| 10/28/08 | New Version of Follett’s Destiny® Empowers Students
Version 9.0 of the Destiny Resource Management Solution includes a number of improvements that empower students. These include the option to let students and teachers to manage their own usernames and passwords, and many other options for customizing the look and feel of Destiny. |
| 10/02/08 | Texas District Adds Follett’s Destiny Textbook Manager™ to Reduce Textbook Losses
McKinney Independent School District has chosen Destiny Textbook Manager from Follett Software Company in an effort to save staff time and reduce the number of textbooks it loses each year. |
| 08/26/08 | Alabama School District Adopts Follett’s Destiny Textbook Manager™ To Cope With Rapid Growth
Baldwin County Public Schools, headquartered in Bay Minette, Alabama, has adopted Destiny Textbook Manager to help it cope with rapid population growth in the district. Baldwin County expects to save money by reducing textbook losses and duplicate orders. |
| 08/12/08 | Districts Using Follett’s Destiny® Jump 82%
Follett Software Company’s Destiny Resource Management Solution is now being used in one out of every four U.S. public schools. |
| 07/01/08 | Follett’s Latest Release -- Destiny® 8.5
School districts that upgrade to Destiny Library Manager Version 8.5 can get 65 free eBooks per school. |
| 06/30/08 | Follett Software Introduces New Online Search for The 21st Century Learner
Destiny Quest™, a new feature within the widely used Destiny Library Manager™ solution, is a new online searching interface for the digitally native student. Destiny Quest combines a visually engaging interface, broad-based integrated searching power and social networking components such as the ability to rate and review books and post video and audio reviews. |
| 06/04/08 | New TetraData® Version 7.0 Helps School Districts Build a District-Wide Data Culture
New features in DASH and Analysis Suite let districts align and communicate their unique improvement goals and progress. |
| 05/06/08 | Asheville City Schools Switch to Follett’s Destiny® For Centralized Library Management
The Asheville (NC) City Schools have switched to Destiny Library Manager as part of a move to consolidate major applications at the school district level. |
| 04/16/08 | New Follett Destiny® Release Lets Students Share Opinions on Library Books
Destiny Library Manager Version 8.0 allows students, as well as librarians and staff, to rate each book with a five-star rating. |
| 04/10/08 | North Carolina School District Gets Advanced View of NCLB Performance
School District administrators at Iredell-Statesville Schools in Statesville, North Carolina, are using TetraData Dash to communicate vital information regarding school performance under No Child Left Behind. |
| 02/20/08 | SUNLINK Uses Advanced Tech To Measure School Library Impact in Florida
The SUNLINK Data Collection Project, a project of the University of Central Florida College of Education and funded by the Florida Department of Education, is collecting data from Destiny Library Manager systems in five districts into a TetraData Warehouse to measure the impact of library circulation on FCAT high-stakes reading scores. |
| 02/06/08 | Norfolk Adopts Follett’s Destiny® To Streamline Library Management
Norfolk Public Schools in Virginia has adopted Destiny Library Manager to centralize the management of its 55 school library sites. Included in the implementation is TitlePeek, which allows students to preview books online. |
| 01/30/08 | Georgia District Adopts Follett’s Destiny® To Cut Maintenance Time, Costs
The Douglas County (GA) School System was able to improve school library service while eliminating 30 computer servers by adopting Destiny Library Manager from Follett Software. With Destiny, all district libraries are managed on a single server, accessed at schools and at home via the Web. The move has saved the district hundreds of hours of maintenance time. |
