Borrowing Requests
Create, manage, and process borrowing requests in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Borrowing Request fields
- Find details about the fields that appear in borrowing requests in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Search for requests
- Learn how to search for active and closed requests from the home screen in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Create and edit requests
- Learn how to create requests from a blank workform, using Discover Items, and from an existing request, and also find information about editing requests in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Process requests
- Learn how to process New For Review and Open Access requests, how to receive items from In Transit and Received status, the options for unfilled requests, and how to respond to conditionals from lenders in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Return items
- Learn how to return an item from Received status and from Recalled status in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Batch processing for borrowers
- Learn how to use batch processing to receive and return items in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Email a copy of a request
- In Resource Sharing for Groups, learn how to send a formatted email of the request details to any email address.
- Create book club requests
- Learn how to make book club requests, or linked requests, by creating multiple requests for a single item using a single request screen in Resource Sharing for Groups.
- Proven senders
- Find details about setting up proven senders in Resource Sharing for Groups. Proven senders allow borrowing libraries to have requests from individual lenders, who have proven to provide quality documents, to automatically be received for the borrower.
- Send notifications to borrowers
- Learn how to send an email notification to a patron and find details about standard borrowing library to patron notifications in Resource Sharing for Groups.