Tipasa
Tipasa provides new functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests to save time for your staff and users.
- Borrowing Requests
- Create, manage and process borrowing requests.
- Lending Requests
- Create, manage and respond to lending requests.
- OCLC Service Configuration - Tipasa
- Administrative settings for Tipasa are maintained in OCLC Service Configuration. In Service Configuration, you can set your interlibrary loan options, print settings, borrower and lender constant data, custom holdings groups, automations, and purchase options. As a Tipasa user, you can also turn on or off additional Tipasa settings.
- Policies Directory guide
- The OCLC Policies Directory is the repository of lending and copying policies of libraries participating in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and Tipasa.
- Smart fulfillment
- Find information about Smart fulfillment features, which increase the speed of delivery of materials based on policy data, lending history, licensing agreements, format preferences, and more.
- Article Exchange
- Article Exchange provides a single secure location where lending libraries can place requested articles for interlibrary loan. It allows users to upload files for pickup anywhere in the world. Only authorized users will be able to download the file.
- Copyright
- Find information about managing copyright.
- Document Delivery
- The Document Delivery features allow your library to fulfill requests from patrons with items from your own collection.
- Interlibrary Loan Fee Management
- The Interlibrary Loan Fee Management (IFM) feature lets libraries reconcile resource-sharing charges and payments through their monthly OCLC invoice. IFM helps libraries save money on fee-based transactions and simplify the transaction process.
- Purchasing Requests
- The Purchase option allows you to track items you may wish to purchase, instead of borrowing via interlibrary loan.
- Off-System Requesting
- Learn how to track all requests using off-system request workflows in Tipasa.
- My Account
- My Account is the interface for users at libraries with Tipasa, WorldShare Circulation, or WorldCat Discovery. Features available to the user vary depending on the service(s) to which your library subscribes.
- Patron management
- With Tipasa, you can access your library's patron accounts for viewing, editing, and approving.
- With Tipasa, you can print individual requests, all requests in a queue, add requests to the print queue to print out later, and queue book straps and shipping and return labels to be printed.
- WMS integrations
- Find information about integrating Tipasa with other WorldShare Management Services applications.
- Third-party integrations
- Find information about integrating third-party applications with Tipasa.
- Tags
- Tags are custom labels that can be applied to active and closed requests. Your library can use tags as a way to group and keep track of requests. Tags are only visible to your library. The system maintains all tags created and saved to a request, and you can search for active and closed requests using tags. You can create up to 200 unique tags.
- Document suppliers
- The documentation in this section explains how to receive articles from document suppliers such as Get It Now and MyBib.
- Reports
- Reports are available to Tipasa users through OCLC Usage Statistics, WorldShare Reports, and Report Designer.
- Reference
- Additional resources for Tipasa users.
- Tipasa release notes and known issues
- Find Tipasa release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- Tipasa training
- Find training on Tipasa here.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Are autodeflections included in the Lender Activity Overview Report?
- Are inline links possible within Tipasa notifications?
- Are weekends included in ILL days to respond, request aging, or due dates?
- Call numbers are not populating on incoming lending requests, even though we have enabled this integration
- Can I request part of a book through Article Galaxy from Reprints Desk?
- OCLC Community Center
- Find more information the Community Center.