Tipasa release notes, April 2024

Administrative actions

These items require immediate action or decisions.

Follow-up actions

In an effort to keep your staff informed of new features and changes, you may also want to consider these items.

Centrally define pickup location codes for improved coordination and communication within your library

With the December 2023 release, you gained the ability to define pickup location codes to improve circulation integration, request transfer, and general coordination and communication within your library.

Now, these pickup location names and codes can be defined centrally in OCLC Service Configuration for use on your request forms - helping library users and ILL staff more easily specify the preferred pickup location for requested items.

To manage your pickup locations, go to OCLC Service Configuration > WorldShare ILL > Circulation Integration > ILS locations. Here, you can add a new location, edit the name, code, or type of an existing location, or designate which locations are active.

To enable specific pickup locations on a request form for library users, go to OCLC Service Configuration > WorldShare ILL > Request Forms. Open the accordion for the form, and for the Pickup Location field, click in the Field Values box. Select the pickup locations to include for that form, indicate the default selection, and click Save. Repeat this selection of pickup locations for each request form that includes the Pickup Location field.

The specified pickup locations now display on the library users' request form as well as in the staff interface.

For more information, see Circulation Integration and Request Form fields.

Customize the Profile tab in My Account to meet your library users' needs

Earlier this month, new options became available for customizing the Profile tab in My Account. Now you can:

• Share public user notes with the library user
• Add a customized notification usage message for your library's users
• Choose which email or SMS/text notification options to display to your library's users

For more information, see the My Account release notes, April 2024.

Staff interface being modernized for improved accessibility, usability, and navigation

In early 2024, the OCLC Resource Sharing Team began a project to modernize the Tipasa staff interface. The modernization does not introduce new functionality but will improve accessibility, usability, and navigation, ensuring clearer organization of information as well as the use of modern components, elements, and behaviors.

Modernized pages will be rolled out and released in a two-phase process. Libraries that participate in the "preview" group will see and use the new pages one release prior to other Tipasa libraries. The release of modernized pages began earlier this year.

With each upcoming release, 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, please see the January 31 session of Product Insights: Resource Sharing (timestamp 13:05).

Post-release 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: Thursday, June 6, 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -04:00)
Registration: https://community.oclc.org/t5/resource-sharing-events/product-insights-resource-sharing/ec-p/51249

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.