Lending Workflows

Alma Roles: Circulation Desk Operator, Fulfillment Services Operator, Requests Operator, and Printout Queue Manager 

Resource Sharing is a reciprocal process between libraries. Library staff can request materials from other libraries, but if no one is willing to lend their materials Resource Sharing would cease to function. To borrow materials for our patrons we must be willing to lend our materials to other libraries.

The Lending side of Resource Sharing consists of workflows to retrieve materials from our libraries and send them to other libraries. In the following section you will see how to perform various Lending functions including:

• Physical Item Lending Workflows
• Digital Item Lending Workflows
• Locate Failed Workflows
• Document Delivery Workflows

After reading these sections, there will be a short quiz on the material.