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    Rapido- Completed- H2 2023

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    User Experience

    Discovery improvements
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    Streamline request to Discover Experience 

    Further progress to reduce duplications in GTI 

     

    Improve the quality of records in the Rapido holdings index 

    Managing Rapido Borrowing Requests

    Rapido  is a discovery to request solution and there are opportunities for improving the results found in this discovery experience.  

    Personal delivery workflows

     

    What’s New Highlights Impact
    Updating personal delivery address at request time.

    Patrons that are eligible for personal delivery can request to pick up resources at an address other than their registered home address.

    Not Yet Completed

    This enables using the personal delivery service even when no known home address has been uploaded to the system.

    It also enables patrons to easily change the registered address when requesting for personal delivery.

    Staff Efficiencies

     

    Set Facets

    Edit section

    What's New Highlights Impact

    New set facets  

    Pods 

     

     

    Partners with zero values 

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Rapido/Product_Documentation/03_Workflows/01_Rapido_Sets#Creating_Sets_Based_on_Undefined_Criteria

    Sort requests and organize your workflows based on pods to support workflow or shipping differences you may use for various partners.  

     

    Easily create sets during implementation process or prior to having the need for managing requests from particular partners.  

     

    Mediate First Time Requests on Self Registered Users
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    Mediation rule parameter to create mediation rule on self registered users. 

    Mediate requests if the parameter of authorized user for resource sharing has a value of no. 

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/..._User_Requests

    Staff can review first time requests placed by self registered users. This allows staff to discern elligibility of the user and make any edits to the user or request prior to request fulfillment. 

    Copyright Information on the Right Pane
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    View copyright workflow actions in the right pane of the request. 

    Simplified workflow actions for processing requests stopped by copyright rules. 

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/...the_Right_Pane

    Process and perform copyright actions on borrowing requests with less clicks. These actions still exist under the edit view but access is also easy from the right pane of the request. 

    Partner Information at Enrich from Global Index Action

    Edit section

    What’s New Highlights Impact

    More information to support staff workflows on requests needing mediation  

    POD info/holdings info from staff view of GTI 

     

    Managing Rapido Borrowing Requests

    Greater visibility supports decision making and efficient processing of mediated requests.  

     

    Personal delivery workflows

    Edit section

    What’s New Highlights Impact
    Updating personal delivery address at request time.

    Patrons that are eligible for personal delivery can request to pick up resources at an address other than their registered home address.

     

    Not Yet Completed

    This enables using the personal delivery service even when no known home address has been uploaded to the system.

    It also enables patrons to easily change the registered address when requesting for personal delivery.

     

    Connect

    Hybrid Pods Containing Rapido and Alma

    Edit section

    What’s New Highlights Impact

    A hybrid pod is a pod that contains libraries performing resource sharing using Alma with Rapido libraries. 

    Easily connect with Alma resource sharing partners.  Creation of partners is automated for Rapido libraries. 

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/...ue#Hybrid_Pods

    Joining pods is now the same easy set up that Rapido libraries are used to with any other pod. This supports and simplifies  building connections with community partners. 

     

    ALA partner enhancement

    Edit section

    What’s New Highlights Impact

    ALA form visible to staff

    ALA form visibility as request attachment

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/...A_Profile_Type

     

     

    Rapido is a connected part of the resource sharing ecosystem. Rapido libraries can connect with libraries that operate or accept ALA forms for resource sharing. The staff can now view the form that was automatically populated from the request and sent to their ALA partners. 

     

    Self registration of partners

    Edit section

    What’s New Highlights Impact

    Net Lender Workflows 

    Registration of new borrowing only partners 

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Rapido/Product_Documentation/02_Configuration#Enabling_Self_Registration_for_Net_Lenders

    Enables Rapido libraries to function as net lenders to individuals and organizations regardless of or in lack of a resource sharing solution.  

     

    Analytics 

    Lending cancellation reasons report
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    Lending cancellation reasons report

    Account for why requests had to be cancelled

    Analytics provide information to build understanding and inform library decisions. Lending cancellation reasons reports are useful in understanding what contributes to cancelled requests.  

    Out-of-the-Box Reports

     

    Borrowing by user group
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    user groups placing borrowing requests report

    borrowing by user group

    Analytics provide information to build understanding and inform library decisions. A new report will give libraries informaton about borrowing volumes per library user group. 

    Out-of-the-Box Reports

     

    Borrowing Cancellations and Reasons
    What’s New Highlights Impact

    Borrowing Cancellations and Reasons report

    reasons patrons cancel requests

    Analytics provide information to build understanding and inform library decisions. Borrowing Cancellations and Reasons will give libraries insight as to why patrons place the requests. 

     

    Out-of-the-Box Reports

     

    Borrowing Filled and unfilled
    What’s New Highlights Impact
    Borrowing Filled and unfilled report

    borrowing fill rates report

    Analytics provide information to build understanding and inform library decisions. Borrowing filled and unfilled report give libraries insight into requests fulfillment for their library users. 

    Out-of-the-Box Reports

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