Lending Requests
Create, manage and respond to lending requests.
Your requests appear in the left navigation menu and under Quick Links on the Home screen. The major queues are listed first, followed by minor queues for easier organization. Click a queue to see all requests in that queue. See the Categories and Queues table for a detailed description of each queue.
Note: Queues with no current requests will not appear in the list.
Reinforce your understanding with a practice exercise: Lending workflows simulation
- Lending request detail
- Find information about the fields that appear in lending requests in Tipasa.
- Search for requests
- Find information about how to search active and closed lending requests in Tipasa.
- Edit requests
- Learn how to edit fields on a lending request in Tipasa.
- Advanced Lending
- Find information about the Advanced Lending workflow and learn how to move requests into an Advanced Lending queue in Tipasa.
- Respond to requests
- Learn how to view local holdings and availability for lending requests as well as how to respond to requests as a lender in Tipasa.
- Complete requests
- Learn how to complete a lending request in Tipasa.
- Lending Priorities
- Learn how to setup Lending Priorities in Tipasa, which allow you to enable special queues for requests from priority borrowers.
- Lend to non-OCLC libraries
- Learn how to manually create lending requests for non-OCLC libraries in Tipasa.
- Send notifications to borrowing libraries
- Learn how to send an email notification to a borrowing library and find information about the available Lending Library to Borrowing Library notification types in Tipasa.
- Deflections
- Learn how to deflect requests from knowledge base collections and deflect requests for all electronic items in Tipasa.
- Batch processing for lenders
- Learn how to use batch processing to complete requests and how to respond Yes, No, or send to an Advanced Lending queue in Tipasa.