Improve connections with partners and  experience  consistency of these connections. 

Extend Rapido functionality like participating items and pod terms for Rapido libraries when connecting to partners directly. 

 

Ease Configurations and streamline expectations across requests within Rapido with Rapido partners. 

Connect with Docline partners.  

Integration with Docline for borrowing requests.

Use the Docline partner to send unfilled borrowing requests to Docline Network. 

The self registration functionality enables libraries to support discovery and requesting from their collections to enable their role as lenders in relationships with libraries and organizations that need direct access to their  resource sharing services. Libraries will be able to create these accounts and distribute them to their partners. 

Self registration functionality can be enabled to allow your partners to register for your library's lending resource sharing services.  There is a need in the Rapido community to be able to  create the  accounts on behalf of your partners and distribute these new credentials. Libraries will be able to create these self registered  partner accounts and share credentials to support their partners in their  discovery and request journey. 

Empower libraries as lenders to their networks of organizations, libraries, researchers, and others that rely on them as a lender.  Libraries will be able to create and distribute the credentials need for these partners to discover and request with their library. 

 

Self registration functionality can be enabled to allow your partners to register for your library's lending resource sharing services.  There is a need in the Rapido community to be able to  create the  accounts on behalf of your partners and distribute these new credentials. Libraries will be able to create these self registered  partner accounts and share credentials to support their partners in their  discovery and request journey. 

Empower libraries as lenders to their networks of organizations, libraries, researchers, and others that rely on them as a lender.  The API will enable libraries to pull information that is necessary to create these partner accounts to facilitate this relationship

Expanding beyond reciprocal arrangements, libraries are able to configure shipping cost rules. The shipping cost rules are determine when costs should be automatically apply cto resource sharing lending requests. Additional parameters for these rules enable further customization of working with costs with partners.

Reciprocal arrangements are currently a standard for many Rapido pods. This works well for many library relationships but there are libraries and  connections that are supported by the ability to charge partners. By defining charges for lending, Rapido is a resource sharing solution for a variety of library models.

The option to block repeat lending requests from the same partner if the reject reason is due to copyright compliance.

Through configuration enable lenders to define a time period during which RapidILL will block repeat requests for the same standard number from the same borrowing library if the original request was rejected due to copyright compliance. This functionality will apply to lenders managing requests in Alma Resource Sharing or Rapido, as it relies on RapidILL receiving the value defined within   “reasons for no."

When a lending library rejects a RapidILL request due to copyright compliance, it does not receive another request for that same item from the same RapidILL borrowing library.