Instructions for creating licenses, updating license terms of use, and adding the RapidILL Lending Note to collections.
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When sharing our electronic holdings with Rapid ILL, we are required to include lendable statuses to ensure the items we own are permitted to lend per our vendor licenses. This was a process that already existed, it was previously at the backend of the RapidILL process. Now the lendable status is required at the beginning of the process in Alma. Ex Libris: “RapidILL is a fast and cost-effective interlibrary loan tailored for article and book chapter requests.”
Licenses may or may not mention "resource sharing" or "Interlibrary Loan". We need to know what the license allows. RapidILL distinguishes between 3 lending policies or Lendable Statuses.
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Pick the best option that will work for the library to begin this project. Start with a small set of collections, starting with either EBSCO, ProQuest, JSTOR, Gale, etc. All three of these options are long-term projects but it is best we begin adding the lending note needed for RapidILL to the corresponding Alma E-collection Internal Description fields.
It is highly recommended to eventually start option three so that licenses have Terms of Use as we move forward with keeping the RapidILL lending note updated in the Alma collections. Not just for RapidILL, but for upcoming projects, such as linking to Consortia Manager, running reports, etc.
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