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(https://github.com/vculibraries/alma-ncip)

Policy Statement

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Best practice recommendations

Procedures in Alma

Alma Configuration

Required components:

• Resource Sharing Library
• Resource Sharing Partner

Resource Sharing Library

The library must have Open Hours and Terms of Use (TOU) established in order to be used in Alma.

Hours

In Alma, navigate to Fulfillment » Fulfillment Configuration » Configuration Menu.

Select the Resource Sharing library from the “You are configuring” option.

Under Library »Opening Hours, specify a default set of hours as per the Alma documentation. You will need to create separate entries for each day of the week.

Terms of Use (TOU)

The following example has been supplied by CSU Sacramento.

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(Also see Resource Sharing Requests in the Alma documentation for items not covered here)Alma button -> Fulfillment ->

Resource Sharing

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If you already have a Resource Sharing partner configured for ILLiad OpenURL linking you should be able to make the necessary adjustments to the configuration here without changing the current functionality (we use this to offer ILLiad interlibrary loan OpenURL links to items in our Primo instance). I'll only cover the configuration options that are necessary for the plug-in to function.

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Partner

In Alma, navigate to  Fulfillment »  Resource Sharing »  Partners

Add new partner as instructed in the ExLibris Documention, here.

Code - Set this to your desired code. This is the code that you use to address the resource sharing library via the plug in - ApplicationProfileType in the plug-in settings below.
Profile Type - NCIP
System Type - ILLiad
Status - Active
Supports borrowing - checked
Supports lending - checked

Parameters

User Identifier Type - This should be the same as the user code in Illiad. This will be the match point between the two systems.
Default library owner - Resource Sharing Library
Check-out Item - Default location - Lending resource sharing requests - Default item policy - the plug-in is configured to use ILLiad set due dates and will override any settings here
Receive Item - Default location - Borrowing resource Sharing Requests - Default pickup library - select your default pickup location for Borrowing requests - Automatic receive - checked - Receive desk - Resource Sharing Desk

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