WorldShare Interlibrary Loan release notes, December 2021
Release Date: December 12, 2021
Introduction
This release of WorldShare Interlibrary Loan provides an enhancement and numerous bug fixes. These features will help you manage more complex workflows, including:
Many of these enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.
Recommended actions
For this release, we recommend that you review the following checklists and complete the relevant tasks so that you can adjust your policies and workflows and train your staff. These checklists identify updates that we have determined as significant for most institutions. We encourage you to review all of the items in the release notes to determine whether there are other items that might require additional action or follow up by your institution.
Administrative actions
These items require immediate action or decisions.
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For best performance, it's very important to clear your browser's cache before starting to work with WorldShare ILL! |
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Be sure to utilize Smart fulfillment functionality, including: |
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If the link to your library’s catalog has not been set up or if the link needs to be updated, follow the instructions below. When you have enabled your online catalog links, you can search your catalog for requested items as a borrower or lender. |
| Have you updated addresses within each of your borrower and lender Constant Data records in OCLC Service Configuration? If not, please do so on behalf of all your borrowing and lending partners. Address labels do not print properly unless the addresses are formatted correctly. |
| Have your contact information or lending policies changed? If so, please make the appropriate updates in OCLC Policies Directory. |
Follow-up actions
In an effort to keep your staff informed of new features and changes, you may also want to consider these items.
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Share these release notes with your colleagues. |
| Register for upcoming presentations included in the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference 2021 Web Series. |
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During the COVID-19 crisis, review the information summarized in this News post:
See also: |
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Have you signed up for email alerts for News in the Community Center? This will ensure that WorldShare Interlibrary Loan release notes and events will come straight to your inbox. |
New features and enhancements
Utilize local date formatting in full request details email
For less confusion, the full request details email will now have dates formatted in the standard format of the sending library's country. For users in the United States, there will be no change and the format will continue to be in the Month/Day/Year format. In contrast, for example, recipients in Australia and the United Kingdom will now see the format as Day/Month/Year.
Please note that dates from the bibliographic information of the request, such as issue date, will not be affected. This change is automatic and does not require configuration or setup.
Bug fixes
System insterted patron notes, such as MC: and NB: are no longer considered when an automation has an "Any Patron Note" match criteria.
For a list of current and recently fixed issues, see Known issues.
Future releases
Roadmap information is available in the OCLC Community Center.
Important links
Product Insights: Resource Sharing
To help you become familiar with the enhancements and fixes included in this release, please attend the upcoming webinar Product Insights: Resource Sharing.
Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2:00pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, UTC -04:00)
Registration: https://www.oclc.org/content/community/en_us/interlibrary_loan/events/rspi-february-2022.html
Please note the session time zone when registering. The sessions will be recorded and archived for future viewing on the OCLC Community Center. Please register, even if you are unable to attend, to receive a link to the recorded session.
OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (RSC21) web series
OCLC invites you to view the recordings of the presentations from the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference web series. This year’s series of six free, virtual sessions featured electronic document delivery, controlled digital lending, and moving resource sharing forward during this challenging time.
RSC21 included these sessions:
- Tuesday, March 30, 1:00-2:30 pm | “Page, scan, send, reshelve: A mobile scanning station for ILL electronic document delivery service”
- Wednesday, April 28, 11:00 am-12:30 pm | “ILL and the pandemic: Learning from the unexpected”
- Wednesday, May 12, 1:00-2:30 pm | “Renewing resource sharing in challenging times: Collaborating to meet library user needs and demonstrating the value of ILL services”
- Tuesday, May 25, 1:00-2:30 pm | “Managing resource sharing during COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences and impacts—three perspectives”
- Thursday, June 10, 1:00-2:30 pm | “Controlled digital lending in two private academic libraries: Same services with diverse tools”
- Tuesday, June 15, 11:00 am-12:30 pm | “A look at ILL into the future: An update on your ILL services”
Recordings of these 60 minute presentations are available here.
Virtual Workshop Series: Learn how to fine-tune your ILL setup
The series included the following topics:
- Part 1: Fine-tune your policies and deflections (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 2: Construct your custom holdings (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 3: Automate your request process (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 4: Curate and care for your constant data (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 5: Make your usage statistics count (recording, slides, and checklist available)
Support websites
Support information for this product and related products can be found at:
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan product website
- OCLC Community Center
- OCLC Support
- Browser compatibility chart