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Limits for RapidILL scan from print requests
Since all Rapido scan requests are converted to RapidILL requests and thus have a 24-hour service commitment, we’ve been noticing an unmanageable workload on Mondays with requests coming in over the weekends. Prior to dropping OCLC we could balance our workload by doing the urgent requests first and the less urgent requests another day, but now all of our most time-consuming requests are also urgent.
Possible solution: Limiting the number of scan from print requests that can be assigned to one library at one time.2 votes -
Enable lenders to change the due date on a request after it has already been received by the borrowing library.
A book my library sent out on a resource sharing request took a long time to arrive at the borrowing library. They received it and had only 2 weeks before it was due back. They contacted me and asked if the book could be renewed. On their side of things they were getting a no renewals message. I gave them a new due date. But when I tried to change the due date on my end, there is no way to change it.
It would be really great to be able to do this. Thanks!
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Note to Patron for Digital Local Upload
It would often be helpful to include a note to the patron when filling local, digital borrowing requests. This would allow us to provide further context or resources about an uploaded file or link to the patron when filling requests with owned materials through the local fill process.
For instance, for owned digital materials, we would like to paste the permalink for the digital holding in the catalog into the URL field and use this as an opportunity to educate the patron on how to access the material themselves instead of uploading the file we own directly to them. However,…
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Book strap generation
Hello,
We manually create book bands that go around the front cover of our incoming borrowed Rapido books. The strap has information like, due date, pick up location, etc. It would be great if Rapido had an option to generate a book strap with custom fields that can be enabled depending on what information each library likes on their book strap.1 vote -
In Rapido Primo profile, filter out full text resources provided by our library.
When our patrons link to our Rapido Primo profile, the results include full-text resources provided by our library. This is confusing to our patrons. This should only include resources that can be requested from other libraries.
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Attempt to balance loaning and borrowing within a pod
We recently joined, and then 3 months later withdrew from, the US Pod. We were lending twice as many books as we were borrowing, and since it's reciprocal, it was a net cost for us when you include the shipping costs. We would want to join again, if there was a load balancing function that reprioritized lenders based on who was a net lender vs a net borrower. It would not need to be perfectly equal; maybe a quarterly review and adjustment. The current load balancing as I understand it only balances per day, which was not working for us.…
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Add a dedicated category and request workflows for Youth & Children’s Activity Printables in Rapido
Currently, Rapido works fantastically for academic articles, book chapters, and interlibrary physical loans. However, public libraries and combined academic-community libraries frequently share educational and activity materials for youth literacy programs, library workshops, and community events.
We suggest adding a dedicated resource sub-category for "Printable Educational & Engagement Materials" within the Rapido digital delivery and resource sharing workflows. Library staff often need to exchange high-quality activity packs for children’s reading hours or cognitive skills workshops—such as curated https://www.funboxie.com/printables/spot-difference and visual puzzles.
Having standardized metadata tags, usage licensing checkmarks, and direct print preview support for these printable assets in Rapido would save…
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Ability to re-check Digitization and Copyright Rules
When lending library receives digital request without page numbers, the lending library has the ability to add page numbers and re-check against rules to see if it violates copyright rules.
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Add "Reported" Filter to the Borrowing Side of Rapido
We use the Reported filter in Lending lets us filter between items that have been printed (Reported=Yes) and requests that have not been printed (Reported=No). We use this to make sets to print pull slips in Lending without accidently reprinting anything.
We would like this in Borrowing to help us with our return label Sets. We could then have one Set for items that have been returned and need a shipping label printed. Currently we have to have multiple Sets and it is confusing trying to figure out which items have been printed and shipped and items that need a…
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Add RapidILL pod information to Rapido
Libraries are part of different RapidILL pods with different agreements around fulfillment time and loan length. We would like RapidILL pod information to import into Rapido and be available in Analytics.
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Improvement to Lost/Replacement invoice functionality
We are so grateful for the Lost/Replacement invoice functionality recently included in Rapido. Currently that feature sends an "e-mail" with invoice information to the invoice recipient. I've been finding that some library's billing departments do not accept this sort of e-mail as an official invoice. When this happens we have to create an off-system invoice pulling in all the information from the original e-mail. This creates more work for both the borrowers and the lenders trying to process the invoice.
Potential Solution:
I propose that in addition to the information in the e-mail, the system generates a PDF invoice that…1 vote -
Combine email partners
We would like to be able to combine email partners the same way we can now combine ISO partners. This would be helpful in cases where multiple libraries on a campus combine into one symbol. We don’t want to delete the partner libraries we are no longer using because we want to retain the stats, but they clutter up our list of partners and are too easy for someone who doesn’t know that the ILL departments have merged to click accidentally (i.e. if someone were requesting a book from Harvard Law and didn’t know that the main Harvard ILL department…
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Add External ID as customize option to "Pick From Shelf" data for display
This would be especially helpful when scanning articles for RapidILL.
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Add mediation rule action to add request note
Add a new mediation rule action to add a specified request note to the request before sending.
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