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.
2022
Export Shared Network Zone Bibliographic Records & Portfolios
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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
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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
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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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User Groups in a Fulfillment Network
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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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Blocks Across Network
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Fulfillment Network members will be able to share local blocks with the entire network |
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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 |
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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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