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Ability to throttle the number of lending requests
We would like the ability to throttle the number of lending requests our institution gets. As a larger institution, we receive about 150 lending requests a day during the school year. We know RAPIDILL staff can do this for us, but we can occasionally have a student out sick and that dramatically decreases the amount we are able to scan. If we could cap our print holdings requests ourselves quickly, this would help us especially during the summer or holidays.
12 votes -
Search Holdings in Rapid Interface
The Search Holdings feature for books is very limited, it doesn't include the Author or Publication Date. Conducting the same search under Borrowing>New Request is inconvenient as there are four required fields.
10 votes -
Separate Mapping List into book chapter lending and whole book lending rules
Please consider adding could the ability to separate the mapping list between chapter lending and whole book lending. More of our collection is available for chapter scanning than whole book Rapid Returnables lending. For example, we could scan a chapter of a reference book but we would not provide the entire book via Rapid Returnables. We have put in place the more restrictive lending rules as there's no way to distinguish between chapter scanning and whole book lending in the mapping .
7 votes -
Require members to send OCR'd files
RapidILL members should be required to send OCR'd PDFs.
6 votes -
Export monthly borrowing/lending summary reports
Under Tools > Statistics > Lending Summary/Borrowing Summary, the statistics shown on the screen can drill down to monthly level but when I clicked on Excel, the file does not breakdown to monthly level. We had to resort to copy and paste from the screen into an Excel file and format it. It would save staff time if the export includes the monthly statistics.
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Rapidill discrepancy between the date in Alma and on Rapidill web input.
We are getting requests come through Alma that are lacking information compared to their web version counterparts. In both of these cases in the Alma version we have only got the year of the article which is why we have marked them as a ‘bad citation’ and referred them back to the requester. However, when looking at the Web instance a few minutes later which is not enough time for the request to have been updated, we can see the date information in full. Granted it is in the ‘year’ section however, the concatenation could be causing problems with other…
3 votes
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