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

2022	2023
Export Shared Network Zone Bibliographic Records & Portfolios Cost/Usage for Network Zone Share Electronic Resources	Real Time Update of Linked Accounts User Groups in a Fulfillment Network Blocks Across a Network Transit network item directly to requested location

2022

Export Shared Network Zone Bibliographic Records & Portfolios

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Consortia member's will be able to export Network Zone shared Bibliographic records and Portfolios from within the Institution Zone	Export jobs 'Export electronic portfolios' and 'Export bibliographic records' will support exporting sets of content origin 'Network and Institution'	Libraries will be able to share bibliographic records and portfolios that are managed for them in the Network Zone with 3rd party systems using ad-hoc export utilities

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Cost/Usage for Network Zone Shared Electronic Resources

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Consortia members will be able to create cost/usage analytic reports for electronic resources that are managed in the Network Zone and purchased in the Institution Zone	Alma Analytics E-Inventory subject area will be expanded to include Cost Usage data for e-inventory managed in the Network Zone and Available for the member for which the POL exists in the member's Institution Zone	Libraries will be able to preform cost usage analysis for shared resources for collection development analysis

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2023

Real Time Update of Linked Accounts

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
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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User Groups in a Fulfillment Network

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Institutions will be able to create different local linked accounts dependent on the patron’s user group in the source institution	Linked account rules will be configurable per the user group value in the source institution This will enable assigning different user groups in the target institution based on the patron's user group in the source institution	Network libraries will be better able to configure network level fulfillment policies for different user types

What’s New

Highlights

Impact

Institutions will be able to create different local linked accounts dependent on the patron’s user group in the source institution

Linked account rules will be configurable per the user group value in the source institution
This will enable assigning different user groups in the target institution based on the patron's user group in the source institution

Network libraries will be better able to configure network level fulfillment policies for different user types

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Blocks Across Network

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Fulfillment Network members will be able to share local blocks with the entire network	User blocks will be automatically copied to all of the patron’s linked accounts, as per institution policies The blocks will be copied from any linked account, even if it is not the source account	Libraries will be able to better consolidate their fulfillment services across the network

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Transit Network Item Directly to Requested Location

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Direct forwarding of returned item to next requested pickup location	An item that is returned, but not to its home institution, will be put 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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