What’s new in the Library Suite
See what's possible with the the latest enhancements to Destiny Library Manager and Destiny District Classroom Library Manager.
The following enhancements incorporate many of your suggestions as we continue to improve Destiny for today’s students and educators. Click a month to expand it, and then click a title for more information on each feature. To expand all entries, click 
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June
Refreshed design and more efficient navigation| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
Destiny v23.0 features enhancements, with a modern design and centralized side navigation. The redesigned interface lets you quickly jump between tasks, as well as areas of Destiny and Follett Software products. The features you use every day, like checking out resources, haven't changed. You'll find them organized in the same way, through the new sidebar.
Use the primary navigation bar
The primary navigation bar, available at the top of every page, lets you quickly jump between areas in Destiny and across Follett products.
Use the secondary navigation bar
Destiny organizes tasks in a collapsible sidebar menu. Whether you want to catalog or circulate resources, run reports, or configure your site, use the following basic navigation steps:
- From the sidebar, click one of the following menu items: Catalog, Circulation, Reports, Admin, My Info, or More.
- Click an option.
- Some pages have tabs. Click the appropriate tab for the task you want to perform.
Note: A user has access to functions based on the permissions assigned by a Destiny Administrator or site-level administrator.
Log in to Destiny
The login page also has an updated look. You can still log in to Destiny using single sign-on (SSO) with Google or another protocol, or your Destiny username and password. Log in as guest routes users to Library Search.
Learn more about navigating Destiny and the benefits of . (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Destiny Discover and Collections design improvements| Library Manager | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
In Destiny Discover and Collections, prominent navigation icons now appear on the left side of the page, and an improved search bar lets users see more as they browse.
Destiny Discover homepage
Collections homepage
Learn more about navigating Destiny Discover and Collections.
Updates to Destiny AI: Data Assistant| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2024 | Release: 23.0 |
There have been several enhancements to Destiny AI: Data Assistant.
If you have Resource Manager, you can now ask Destiny AI: Data Assistant questions about your resource circulation statistics, catalog, and inventory.
The AI is smarter. Its expanded capabilities let you ask how-to questions, as well as inquire about tips and best practices (such as weeding recommendations). In addition, a new question bank with commonly-asked prompts lets you customize the prompts to meet your library and resource needs.
Library prompts
Resource prompts
Destiny AI: Data Assistant is accessible through the Site Dashboard in Destiny Back Office and is available to US-based Destiny Cloud-hosted customers.
Learn more about Destiny AI: Data Assistant.
Ability to add logos and customize the district home page| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
You can now upload a custom district and/or site logo. And, customize the district home page with text, links, and images.
Learn more about profile options. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Individual profile options| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
Administrator and staff users can now set individual default site and/or product preferences when logging in from their district or site page. Decide which view you want to see upon logging in: a particular site or the whole district, including the last visited site or district used. You can also choose a default product on login or the one that was last used.
Learn more about profile options. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
New patron barcode links| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
You can now click a patron's barcode to get to their Patron Status page from the following pages:
- Copy Status or Item Status (from either Catalog or Circulation)
- Check Out History or an item's Transaction History
Learn more about viewing copy status (Library Manager) and item status (Resource Manager). (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Security enhancements| Destiny | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
There have been a few updates to enhance security in Destiny.
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Destiny Administrators and district users can now recover their password. SMTP must be set up for the district. Also, a valid email address must be in the user's record, as a reset password link is sent to that address.
Note: Follett recommends using a district-approved email address.
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Destiny Administrators are now required to enter an email address in their user record.
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Every 90 days, district users – including Destiny Administrators – will be prompted to confirm the email in their record is correct.
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If a district user attempts to use a weak password, they will be forced to change it upon login.
Learn more about Set up Destiny Administrator access, Set up district users, Reset password, and Set up SMTP settings. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Import larger Resources Lists into collections| Library Manager | Date: 6/27/2025 | Release: 23.0 |
Import a Resource List with up to 1,000 items from Destiny Back Office into a new or existing collection.
Learn more about importing a Resource List into a collection.
May
Collection Analysis report updates (Enriched Reports)| Library Manager | Date: 5/12/2025 |
Reading Programs is now its own page and includes all the visuals from the Analysis page.
The Analysis page has a new Collection by Language visual, which shows the number of library materials for each language. The primary language from the 008 MARC record tag is used in the report. If you drill through on any visual, Language will show on the drill-through page.
Learn more about the Collection Analysis report.
April
View title details| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 4/8/2025 |
District-level administrators can view title details on the Title Management page to determine an appropriate audience level.
Note: To see title details, teachers must select books from Titlewave® when adding them to their library. Otherwise, titles will not have clickable links.
Learn more about managing titles and approving audience levels.
View grade levels and teacher email addresses| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 4/8/2025 |
District and site-level administrators can view grade levels and teacher email addresses on the Classroom Directory page.
Learn more about viewing grade levels and teacher email addresses.
Import titles by teacher email| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 4/8/2025 |
District-level administrators can add titles to classroom libraries via teacher email address.
Learn more about adding classroom titles.
March
Site-level Circulations report (Enriched Reports)| Library Manager | Date: 3/27/2025 |
Site-level users now have access to a Circulations report that shows circulations for a date range by physical and digital checkouts, in-library use, and renewals. The report also shows a breakdown by grade level.
Learn more about the Circulations report.
Edit libraries| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 3/25/2025 |
District and site-level administrators can edit teachers' classroom libraries.
Learn more about editing classroom libraries.
Edit titles| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 3/25/2025 |
District-level administrators can edit classroom titles on the Title Management page.
Learn more about managing titles.
Show audience-level reasons| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 3/25/2025 |
District-level administrators can choose whether they want to show teachers the reason for setting a specific audience level.
Learn more about enabling audience level reasons.
February
Search by ISBN| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 2/21/2025 |
District-level users can search for titles via ISBN on the Title Management page.
Learn more about managing titles and approving audience levels.
Improved navigation for Classroom Directory| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 2/21/2025 |
Navigate to a specific site or classroom by expanding the desired list.
Site types and the order in which they appear are set up for all Destiny products in Destiny Back Office (Setup > Sites sub-tab) by a Destiny Administrator.
Learn more about viewing the Classroom Directory and library materials.
Updates to the Circulations report (Enriched Reports)| Library Manager | Date: 2/13/2025 |
You can now view the Circulations report in a bar chart or table. When you export data from a table, you can choose to output the data as either a table (current format) or in a summarized view.
Learn more about the Circulations report.
Export libraries| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 2/5/2025 |
District-level users can export a classroom library to a CSV file.
Learn more about exporting classroom libraries.
January
enhancementsDestiny | Date: 1/31/2025 | Release: 22.5 |
Note: was previously known as the New Destiny User Experience.
The following enhancements were made to Unified Navigation:
- Name change on Update District Sites page: The setting to enable or disable has been changed to reflect the updated name.
- Ability to copy and bookmark URLs: You can now copy and bookmark URLs across Destiny Back Office, Destiny Discover, and Collections. This lets you share direct links to pages for specific sites, such as the Destiny Discover and Destiny Back Office homepages, a collection, or a specific title's details.
- Destiny Discover permission update: There has been an update to honor the Use Destiny Discover by default permission. With the permission disabled, users will automatically access Destiny Back Office. Before, if your district had enabled and the Search using Destiny Discover permission, users would be routed to Destiny Discover automatically, even if Use Destiny Discover by default was disabled.
- Collections navigation: When you use the app switcher
to navigate to Collections from the Profile page, it now takes you directly to the Collections homepage.
Learn more about Unified Navigation. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Prevent overrides of circulation blocks| Library Manager | Date: 1/31/2025 | Release: 22.5 |
Districts can prevent overrides of circulation blocks for specific combinations of patron and circulation types. When this option is enabled, site-level users do not have the option to override blocks on holds or checkouts. A Destiny Administrator can edit the Prevent Override setting, and push the configuration to a specific site, group of sites, or all sites in the district.
Note: When this option is in place, site-level users cannot override a block for the specified patron/circulation type, even if they have the access level permission, Override library blocks.
Site-level users cannot edit this setting, but they can view it in Library Policies. The Prevent Override column only appears for patron/circulation types where it is enabled.
Learn more about setting up library policies and block messages. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Push changes to loan policies without overriding all site-level settings| Library Manager | Date: 1/31/2025 | Release: 22.5 |
Destiny Administrators can now push changes to patron and circulation type settings from the district level without overriding all of a site's existing settings for that patron and circulation type.
When you perform a push, if changes have been made to the patron or circulation type settings since the last push, choose the extent of changes to push from the following options:
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Push only the changes since the past push on [date] to selected sites - Sites will inherit only the specific changes included in this push. Any other unique settings at the site level for patron and circulation types will be unaffected. (new option)Note: Click View Policy Changes to see which changes have been made since the last push.
- Push all district-level patron and circulation types, along with their policies, to selected sites - Sites without the types below will receive them, while sites with matching patron and circulation types will automatically inherit the settings outlined in the Patron Type and Circulation tabs below. (existing behavior)
Notes:
When you push district-level patron and circulation types, Destiny determines if a matching patron or circulation type already exists at the site.
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If you create a new patron or circulation type at the district level:
- If a patron or circulation type with the same name exists at a site it's being pushed to, then the site's patron or circulation types inherit the settings from the district.
- If a patron or circulation type of that name does not exist at a site it's being pushed to, then those are added to the site.
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If you make a change to an existing patron or circulation type at the district level:
- If a patron or circulation type with the same name exists at a site it's being pushed to, then the site's patron or circulation types inherit the settings from the district.
- If a patron or circulation type of that name does not exist at a site it's being pushed to, then they are not added to the site and the changes will not apply.
Learn more about setting up library policies. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Lost copies do not show in Destiny Discover| Library Manager | Date: 1/31/2025 | Release: 22.5 |
To show copy availability clearly, titles with all lost copies no longer appear in Destiny Discover. Previously, if all copies of a title were marked Lost, the title's availability showed as OUT. Now, if all copies of a title are lost, that title does not show in Destiny Discover.
If a user has access to search for titles across the district, and there are copies of a title available off-site, that title appears in search results, but does not list lost local copies. Lost copies still appear in Destiny Back Office Catalog searches.
Learn more about copy status. (Before you click a Help topic link, log in to the latest version of Destiny.)
Filter by classroom when sharing a public link| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 1/22/2025 |
District and site-level users can share a public link that shows only a summary of their school library or a summary with the option to filter by individual classroom.
Learn more about viewing the classroom directory and library materials.
Send email notifications| District Classroom Library Manager | Date: 1/22/2025 |
District users can send an email notification to teachers when classroom titles are outside their set audience level.
Learn more about sending email notifications.