Resource Sharing for Groups release notes, July 2025
Release Date: July 13, 2025
Introduction
This release of Resource Sharing for Groups provides new features and enhancements in addition to bug fixes. These features will help you manage more complex workflows, including:
- Utilize existing circulation integration settings for off-system requests
- Staff interface being modernized for improved accessibility, usability, and navigation
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 Resource Sharing for Groups. |
| Have your contact information or lending policies changed? If so, please make the appropriate updates in the 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. |
| Visit the OCLC Community Center to connect with OCLC and other community members. |
New features and enhancements
Utilize existing circulation integration settings for off-system requests
For libraries with Tipasa and WMS or third-party circulation integration
Previously, your library's circulation integration settings in OCLC Service Configuration were applied only for regular ILL requests. Now, these settings will also extend to off-system requests.
This new functionality ensures that borrowing and lending activities are accurately reflected in your local circulation system, even for requests fulfilled outside standard interlibrary loan workflows. When an off-system request is processed, the system updates the local circulation record automatically.
If your library is currently using circulation integration, automatic updates will begin occurring with this release for off-system requests. This integration ensures consistency between the ILL and local circulation systems, eliminates the need for manual updates, and reduces steps for library staff.
For more information, see Off-System Requesting and Circulation Integration.
For libraries with WorldShare ILL and WMS circulation integration
Previously, your library's circulation integration settings in OCLC Service Configuration were applied only for regular ILL requests. Now, these settings will also extend to off-system requests.
This new functionality ensures that borrowing and lending activities are accurately reflected in WorldShare Circulation, even for requests fulfilled outside standard interlibrary loan workflows. When an off-system request is processed, the system updates the circulation record automatically.
If your library is currently using WorldShare Circulation integration, automatic updates will begin occurring with this release for off-system requests. This integration ensures consistency between the ILL and circulation systems, eliminates the need for manual updates, and reduces steps for library staff.
For more information, see Off-System Requesting and Circulation Integration.
Note
Staff interface being modernized for improved accessibility, usability, and navigation
During 2025, the OCLC Resource Sharing Team continues the project to modernize the Resource Sharing for Groups staff interface. The modernization does not introduce new functionality but does improve accessibility, usability, and navigation, ensuring clearer organization of information as well as the use of modern components, elements, and behaviors.
Modernized pages are being rolled out and released in a two-phase process. Libraries that participate in the "preview" group see and use the new pages prior to other Tipasa libraries.