Rapido Roadmap – Completed – 2023 H1
Staff Efficiencies
Ship from download screen
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Enhance digital lending workflow |
Ship directly from download electronic resources screen
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Streamlines staff processing of digital requests by saving clicks and screen changes needed to fill requests. |
Article delivery job
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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article delivery job |
A job runs to automatically ship articles. Articles are shipped from a designated folder to fulfill the relevant requests.
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Batch automatic delivery of files supports delegation and automation of digitization and download workflows. Staff can fulfill requests without performing shipping action. |
Holdings visibility in lending view
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| View the call numbers and shelving locations of requested materials |
View the call numbers and shelving locations from within the lending requests
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The visibility of holdings in a lending request is useful for libraries that are manually performing the move action. |
Lending expiry to account for non-staffed days
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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staff assign non-working days to be reflected in request expiry |
Expiry periods to reference weekly non-working days determined by staff. Configure the non-staffed days for your department and have them accounted for in the lending expiry period.
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The account of non working days in expiry periods allows lenders sufficient time to process lending requests. This allows delivery time of pod terms to be reflective of expectations. |
Change request type as action
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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new change request type action |
Change request type as an action in addition to existing cloud app
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New convert request type action allow staff to correct requests in order to get the patron needs met. |
Borrowing print button
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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print button in borrowing |
Enable printing on demand from the borrowing request task list via the print button. The status of the request will determine which letter prints.
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Print slip functionality allows libraries to print letters relevant to the step of the workflow. It also can be used for reprints when this is found necessary.
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Mediation parameters and actions
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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New mediation parameters and actions |
New mediation parameter of ISSN/ISBN
New mediation action to automatically cancel requests
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Mediation parameters and actions allow greater customization of mediated workflows. Refine the mediation rules to be able to act on determined ISSNs/ISBNs. Automatically cancel requests if needed.
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Enrich from Global Index
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Enrich from Global Index |
Enable staff to view GTI like the end user and enrich request metadata from the Global Index
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Searching and using GTI records provides information and supports request fulfillment in mediated workflows. |
Expand request types
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Expanding request types |
Offer tiles to enable digitization requests of dissertations
Offer tiles to enable the requests for borrowing physical journals
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Expands access to both physical and digital journal and dissertation resources via resource sharing. |
Rapido Letters
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Provide more functionality with letters |
New fields in letters
Change from address
Enable the generation of a shipping letter after scanning a barcode
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Letters are used via email communication and as necessary printouts in the workflows. Greater capacity of content within the letters and means of generating the letters supports customization of letter content and in workflows involving letters. |
Workflows for requests cancelled by patron
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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workflows to support request management for requests shipped but cancelled by patron |
Enable the alert to support request management for requests that have been shipped prior to cancellation by patron. Use the set parameter to manage these reqeusts.
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Staff needed a way to deal with requests that are cancelled by patron while after the item has been shipped. This workflow gives clarity upon item arrival.
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Automated patron lost fees
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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automatic application of patron lost item fees |
Automate the application of fees accrued for lost items.
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Items marked as lost either manually or automatically can apply charges for lost items. Depending upon which fee is configured, the lost fee can be automatically removed or persist upon item being marked found or returned. |
Removal of unused labels
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Unused labels are deleted
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Labels not connected to a request, set parameter, or mediation rule are deleted
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Labels are used to for communication and organization within the workflows. Streamlining the labels list simplifies decision making and ease of use. |
Connect
Establish connections with new partners
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Establish connections with new partners |
Find partner workflow and the creation of partners from find partner workflow
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The find partner workflow connects Rapido libraries with new partners for requests that weren’t filled by established partners. Expanding the capacity to fill current and future requests.
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ALA Partners
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Create and use ALA partners |
ALA partner type is a new partner type and requests sent to ALA partners automatically populate the ALA form and send it as an email attachment
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The use of ALA partners connects Rapido libraries that use ALA form for borrowing. |
ShareIt Integration
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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ShareIt as partner of last resort |
Integration with ShareIt
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Rapido is a connected part of the resource sharing ecosystem. Librareis can connect ShareIt and Rapido. |
ReShare Integration
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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ReShare as partner of last resort |
Enhance the ReShare integration
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Rapido/Release_Notes/2023/R |
Rapido is a connected part of the resource sharing ecosystem. LIbraries can connect ReShare with Rapido |
Changes reflected in CDI records
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Updates to the CDI |
changes are now reflected in CDI records
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Rapido is a discovery to request solution and updates benefit the discovery experience and resulting requests. |
Analytics
Refine out of the box reports
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Refine existing out of the box reports |
Change time units on turnaround time reports
Visualizations that align with use of reports
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Refinements to out of the box provide a tool that is useable without any edits by each institution. |
Copyright Reports and Widgets
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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New out of the box reports |
Copyright reports and widgets
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Analytics provide information to build understanding and inform library decisions. Out of the box reports for copyright help libraries with copyright assessment. |