I would say that most school libraries in Michigan use Follett Destiny for their library management system.There are libraries with 200 patrons and some with 6000+. Personally, I love it and I love their new interface of Destiny Discover. We got into the Follett Collections game early on (it's like LibGuides) and it's been a great tool for curation.

We are running the newest version of Windows and it's fine. However, the server is running at Oakland Schools and we access it as a cloud based system. So, technically we do not host our data at the district level, but at the county level. Follett does offer to host your data. Then they just take care of all the updates.

They have an active community and will answer your tech questions on Follett Community. https://www.follettcommunity.com/s/ That platform has blog posts and it's a discussion board. It's the same software as ALA Connect.

MAME has been offering some Follett workshops/training. We have also had a pretty active county user group -- however, this year we do not have someone to organize it so I am not sure what will happen. We had a good one last spring.

Best-

Klaudia

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:05 PM Mary Harrison via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:

Hello Library Land,
Is anyone else using Follett Destiny? I’d be interested to hear if you are having any issues. We are planning to upgrade to Windows 2019 and set up new computers for public and staff. We have been limping along with Windows 2007.

However, according to Follett, their newest version of Destiny doesn’t go beyond Windows 2008. I am wondering if they plan to get out of the circulation system game entirely—we plan to ask them.

Anyone else doing upgrades and having this concern? We have to upgrade finally, but Destiny might not be able to come with. Depending on how it goes, I may soon send out another email asking for advice on new systems!

Thanks for responses, Mary

Mary Jean Harrison
Library Director
Coloma Public Library
151 W. Center Street
P.O. Box 430
Coloma, MI 49038-0430
269-468-3431

The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff.
Timothy Healy

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