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During the winter holidays, all CSU libraries close, so students, faculty, and staff can enjoy a much needed holiday break. Before we all take our break, there are several things we should do in both Borrowing and Lending to ensure we don’t have our patrons requests, and requests from other libraries, expire or get cancelled.
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Name: Holiday Closures
Description: Stop requests till until after the Winter Holidays
Use the +Add Parameter option to add these Input Parameters to the rule.
Name | Operator | Value |
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Requested Format | In List | Physical |
Borrowing Owning Library | In List | (Select your Resource Sharing Library) |
In the Output Parameters section, add:
Labels: Holiday
Action: -
Since leaving the Action value blank (-) stops requests from processing (I don’t know why its not “stop processing” instead of -), this rule will stop all physical items for mediation. If you also want to stop article requests, do not add the Requested Format part of the rule.
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All requests with the Holiday Label will be stopped to process after the Winter Holidays.
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You might want to let patrons know the requests will be delayed. You can add several Primo Labels to let them know to expect delays. To add Primo Labels, go to Alma Configuration → Discovery → Display Configuration → Labels. Chance Change the drop down to Description and search Rapido Labels. Click the ellipsis and select Edit. Search the following codes and update them:
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To turn off the Borrowing Mediation Rule go to Alma Configuration → Resource Sharing → Rapido Rules → Borrowing Mediation Rules and set the rule to inactive. Once the rule is inactive, you can process the requests. Go to the Holiday Closures Setin Rapido and click the Ellipsis (…) next to each request and select Recalculate Partner. If the rule is inactive, the request will go through as if the request was just placed. Once all the requests are processed, you can deactivate the Set and return to normal workflows.
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Set Alma to go non-Lending in RapidILL
Previously, staff had to go non-Lending in Rapido and RapidILL separately to block incoming physical (Rapido) and digital (RapidILL) requests. In January 2024, an enhancement made it possible to go non-Lending for both services when you set Rapido to non-Lending. To enable this enhancement, go to Alma Configuration → Fulfillment → General → Other Settings and search for rs_update_rapid_with_lending_offtime and set it to True. Now when you go non-Lending in Rapido, you will also go non-Lending in RapidILL.
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There are multiple ways to get to the page to set a library to non-Lending. A new, less complicated way of accessing the page is to go to Alma Configuration → Resource Sharing → Configuration → Members and click the ellipsis (…) next to your Resource Sharing Library and select Edit Resource Sharing Library.
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