Ability to queue borrowing requests for a temporarily inactive partner
Hi,
For resource sharing, we use Alma partners with the ISO profile type that are part of the Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) network.
When partner libraries suspend themselves from LADD services, their Status updates in Alma to Inactive.
However, sometimes a Library is the only possible lender of material. In these cases, we would prefer to wait until the Library becomes Active again, instead of trying to source a partner overseas (for us in Australia, time-consuming and much more expensive, plus challenges with postal delays). At present, we add a Note to the request that it is to be Sent to the partner Library at a later date. However, it would be great to have functionality to 'queue' the request against the Inactive partner, so that once the partner's Status became Active again, the request sent automatically.
Kirstie N
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Note that it is possibel to use the 'Sending Borrowing Request Rules' to prevent auto sending of requests to specifc partners. The request will remain in a 'ready to be sent' status until manually sent.
