Tipasa release notes, July 2025
Release Date: July 13, 2025
Introduction
This release of Tipasa 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
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 Tipasa! |
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Be sure you're utilizing all available Smart fulfillment functionalities:
See also these tips to Improve turnaround time and the Turnaround Time dashboards for finding and tracking your average lending and borrowing turnaround time. |
| 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 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.
Note
Staff interface being modernized for improved accessibility, usability, and navigation
During 2025, the OCLC Resource Sharing Team continues the project to modernize the Tipasa 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.
| The modernized version of this page... | Released to the preview group... | Released to all Tipasa libraries... |
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2024 | 2024 |
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February 2025 | February 2025 |
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March 2025 | To be scheduled |
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July 2025 | To be scheduled |
For future releases, this list will be updated with additional pages.
If your library team is interested in being included in the preview group, please send an email to oclcresourcesharing@oclc.org.
For more information on the modernization project, please see the updates provided in the Product Insights: Resource Sharing webinars.
Bug fixes and known issues
For a full list of current and recently fixed issues, see Known issues.
Important links
Product Insights session
To help you become familiar with the new features, enhancements, and improvements included in this release, please attend the upcoming webinar Product Insights: Resource Sharing.
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2:00 pm, EDT
Registration: https://community.oclc.org/t5/resour...sharing-events
Please note the session time zones when registering. The sessions will be recorded and archived for future viewing on the OCLC Community Center. Please register, even if you cannot attend, to receive a link to the recorded session.
OCLC Resource Sharing Conference web series
OCLC invites you view presentations from the 2025 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (RSC25) web series.
This series of free, virtual sessions focused on topics of interest to the OCLC interlibrary loan community. Recordings and slides are available in the OCLC Community Center.
Support websites
Support information for this product and related products can be found at: