Rapido Roadmap – Completed – 2024 H1
User Experience
NERS Item: Configure Mandatory Fields in Rapido Request Form
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Configure which fields are mandatory for Rapido requests |
Customize Rapido request forms by defining the fields that your library requires your library users to complete. |
Create clarity for both staff and community library users. Define which request fields are mandatory for your library users, this customization encourages users to provide essential request information to library staff fulfilling the request. |
Staff Efficiencies
Further integrations with RapidILL
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| New integration points with RapidILL |
It will be possible to configure lending off-times in Rapido and have them automatically registered as off-times in RapidILL, eliminating the need for configuring this in Rapid web pages. |
Fully seamless workflow and configuration with RapidILL |
Define Max Costs
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Borrowing libraries will be able to define max costs. Defining max costs communicates to lenders the amount a borrowing library can afford to expend in acquiring the requested material. |
Borrowing partner defines the maximum cost that they are willing or able to acquire for possible expenses associated with a borrowing request.
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This practice prevents borrowers from accruing a fee higher than budgets or expectations allow. While still partnering with lending libraries that apply fees for their lending services. |
Generate Invoices
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Lending libraries will be able to generate invoices for communicating with borrowing libraries. |
Invoice partners as needed. |
The creation of invoices improves upon a library's ability to communicate resource sharing costs with the borrowing library partner. This new functionality allows libraries that rely on the payments generated from invoicing partners to be active participants in the community. |
Define Partner Costs
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Rapido libraries will be able to define charges for lending to other libraries. |
Expanding beyond reciprocal arrangements, libraries will be able to define charges for resource sharing lending. |
Reciprocal arrangements are currently a standard in Rapido. This works well for many libraries but there are libraries and relationships that may need to charge partners. By defining charges for lending, Rapido is a resource sharing solution for a variety of library models. |
Change Pick Up Location
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Functionality for staff to change the owning library and pickup location of a borrowing request.
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Staff will be able to change the owning library and pickup location to meet the user's need.
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When requests are converted from digital to physical the owning library is automatically assigned, staff may need to change this designation to meet the user's needs. This allows users to get their materials where they want and need them.
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Connect
Self Registration for Partners
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Allow partner libraries or organizations to register as borrowing organizations. |
Lend to partners who may lack a resource sharing solution or means to connect. Self registered partners will exist at partner records to allow for consistent sets, workflows, and analytics as any other partner type. |
Allows net lenders and other lenders to provide materials via resource sharing services and workflows to libraries or other partner organizations who register as a borrowing partner. |
Rapido Lending APIs
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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New APIs for Rapido lending.
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Dedicated Rapido lending APIs that search, retrieve, and update requests.
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Utilize new APIs to connect systems such as invoicing systems.
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Article Galaxy, Reprints Desk, Cloud App Enhancement
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Use cloud app to fulfill requests when the price is unknown. |
Submit any article for fulfillment via the cloud app integration with Article Galaxy. |
Use the cloud app to fulfill article requests regardless of known price availability. All via a consistent, familiar, and seamless workflow to have articles delivered automatically to end users. |
Analytics
Rapido Overview Insights Dashboard
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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An out-of-the-box insight* dashboard providing an overview of Rapido activity
*Insight Dashboards are built with Oracle Data Visualization.
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Out of the Box Data Visualization Project.
Information such as fulfilled borrowing requests, average arrival time and more will be offered in a Data Visualization format
This Data Visualization can be configured as an Alma homepage and will be available to relevant roles as an Out-of-the-box DV.
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Allowing librarians and administrators working with Rapido an overview of their activity providing more information and transparency;
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Partner Cost Functionality Fields
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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With partner costs functionality, libraries can assign cost information to their partners which applies to corresponding requests. The new fields will be available in analytics.
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Use fields that are a part of this functionality within Rapido analytics.
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Allows librarians and administrators working with Rapido to make reports with parameters that are important to the partner cost functionality.
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Self Registration Functionality Fields
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| With self registration functionality, libraries can allow partners and users to register for resource sharing services. |
Use fields that are a part of this functionality within Rapido analytics.
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Allows librarians and administrators working with Rapido to make reports with parameters that are important to the self registered users and partners. |