Page 1+ Implementation Steering Committee Decisions

Sharing Electronic Resources

Electronic and digital resources can be discovered by patrons searching another institution.

Decision: Do we want to turn set Ignore Electronic and Digital Resources? It currently is not enabled, which means this type of resource could show up and be requested.

•  Yes
•  No

Staff Mediated Lending

The default rule “Do not send borrowing requests automatically” is set and distributed to the IZs.

When a resource sharing request is made, Alma will not automatically send it to the lender to be filled. Instead, Alma will locate a lender and then display a status of Ready to Send” on the request. A staff member will need to review these requests and select Send for those that they want to send.

• Note that Alma can be configured to do this automatically (and eliminate the need for staff mediation) should you decide to do that in the future.

Decision: Do we want to disable staff mediated lending?

•  Yes
•  No

Resource Sharing Terms of Use

The OCLS Lending Rules sets the default resource sharing loan period for 3 weeks for all institutions. Colleges can still change these TOUs according to their own needs.

Borrowing Rules

• Resource sharing allowed

• No receive/request/renew fee

• No resource sharing limit

• Pickup in Patron Affiliated Campus

• No personal delivery

• No personal delivery fee

Lending Rules

• 3 weeks lending due date

• 3 weeks maximum renew date (can colleges still set their own renewal periods?)

• 5 day resource sharing recall period (can colleges still set their won recall period ?)

• No lost item fee

Decision: Do we approve borrowing and lending rules?

•  Yes
•  No

Shared Patron Information

The following resource sharing related parameters were set in the NZ and distributed to the IZs

• rs_block_sending_requester_info=true

Enables patron information to be suppressed from a resource sharing request that is sent to another institution. The default is false. When set to true, the Send Requester Information checkbox on the ISO partner parameters is hidden.

Decision: Do we want to send patron information between institutions?

•  Yes
•  No

Rota Assignment Rules

Alma will first look at those institutions that are geographically close to fulfill a request

• OCLS GTA

  • George Brown, Centennial, Humber, Sheridan, Georgian

• OCLS West

  • Lambton, Fanshawe, Niagara, St. Clair, Conestoga, Mohawk

• OCLS East

  • Algonquin, St. Lawrence, La Cité, Fleming

• OCLS North

  • Boréal, Cambrian, Confederation, Northern, Sault

Decision: Do we need to change the order?

•  Yes - add Mohawk to West.
•  No

Decisions for Each College

Fulfillment Units Available for Resource Sharing

Institutions will need to decide which fulfillment units and locations should be available for resource sharing. The current set up is limited to the locations associated with the general fulfillment unit. It may also be that there are locations within the general fulfillment unit that should not be available for resource sharing. In this case, institutions will need to create additional Request rules to exclude those locations.

Resource Sharing Form

Libraries may want to customize the Resource Sharing Form that displays to users in Primo VE when requesting. They may wish to change the name and the options that are available to their patrons via the form.

Display Logic Rules

Libraries may want to use display logic rules to hide resource sharing request options from certain user groups if this service is not available to them (e.g. community borrowers, etc.)