Rapido Roadmap – Completed – 2025 H1
User Experience
Ebook offer tiles
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Within the library discovery experience, users will have Rapido offers available for requesting chapters of ebooks. |
Ebook chapter requests.
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Rapido connects libraries and their collections to create a collective collection. Expanding the collection to include ebook chapters expands access, promotes sharing, and provides a consistent user discovery and request experience. |
Access from User Notification
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| The email that is sent to the patron for accessing digitized content can allow a library to support access without mandating authentication. |
Flexible user experience for libraries that don't require authentication from user notification.
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Libraries will not have to require authentication from user notifications. |
Staff Efficiencies
Act on Expired Requests
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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Expired request workflow |
Expired requests will be actionable like any other active requests. |
Staff can make decisions and perform appropriate actions to manage expired requests. |
CERV Enhancement: Rapido Closing Periods: Due Dates & Renewals
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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From the community: We noticed that Rapido does not consider closing periods entered in the calendar of the library (with ignore_lender_due_date parameter set as true). The due dates of Rapido requests are therefore not based on that calendar, while the due date of the loaned temporary item is. Consequently, a mismatch occurs, which in addition interferes with the renewals. We would like that: - Rapido considers the closing periods entered in the library calendar in Alma. - Rapido synchronises the borrowing and lending requests due dates. This functionality would be optional. |
Rapido pod terms determine the loan period. and thus the due date. The due date will also be influenced by the library's calendar. |
Rapido due dates for the pod to consider library calendar. |
Connect
Ebook resource sharing
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
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| Rapido libraries will be able to join a pod for ebook resource sharing. |
Resource sharing for ebooks.
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Ebooks are a growing part of library collections and sharing these resources greatly improves access to content, supports sustainability by cutting shipping, and expedites delivery to provide optimal user experience.
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