Consortia
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Consortia
Overview
Alma supports consortia by providing a platform for working together and sharing resources, while allowing members to independently and separately manage their own library needs.
Roadmap
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2023 H1
Display Logic Rules for Shared Electronic Services Managed in the Network Zone
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Members of a consortia will be able to control the appearance of Network Zone shared electronic services in the link resolver using display logic rules. | The Institution Zone's display logic rules configuration will include electronic services managed in the Network Zone. | Libraries will be able to provide a better service to their patrons by hiding or exposing electronic services when certain conditions are met. |
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2023 H2
Order of Services for Shared Electronic Services Managed in the Network Zone
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Central offices that manage shared electronic resources in the Network Zone will be able to determine the preferred order of the shared electronic services in the link resolver of the members' Institution Zone. | The institution will be able to configure if it inherits the central office preferences or not. | Consortia will be able to increase the exposure of shared electronic services. |
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Central Configuration by Central Office
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Today, the central office operator needs to logon to the individual Institution Zone members' environment to configure some of the policies that are determined at a central level. The consortia central office will have more centralized operational policies. |
The central office will be able to configure more policies in the Network Zone and apply them to selected members.
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The central office will be able to work more efficiently, reducing time spent applying central policies. |
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2024
Blocks Across a Network
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Fulfillment Network members will be able to share local blocks with the entire network. |
Blocks will be copied not only from the source institution but also from the target institutions. |
Libraries will be able to better consolidate their fulfillment services across the network. |
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Real Time Update of Linked Accounts
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Linked account updates will happen in real time. | The refresh of linked accounts across institutions will take place in real time, when the record is updated in the source institution. | Libraries will be able to make use of more up to date user account information across the network. |
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Transit Network Item Directly to Requested Location
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Direct forwarding of a returned item to the next requested pickup location. | An item that is returned, but not at its home institution, will be placed in transit directly to the next requested pickup location, rather than to its home institution. | Added efficiency in managing requests, faster processing and cost saving. |
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User Groups in a Fulfillment Network
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Institutions will be able to create different local linked accounts dependent on the patron’s user group in the source institution. |
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Network libraries will be better able to configure network level fulfillment policies for different user types.
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