Emory & Georgia Tech Fulfillment Network

Post date: Aug 25, 2017 3:15:26 PM

Hello LSD Staff:

On Monday, August 28th, we will be going live with our Emory & Georgia Tech Fulfillment Network in Alma.

What is the Emory & Georgia Tech Fulfillment Network? The Fulfillment Network allows for Emory and Georgia Tech to share materials from our respective collections in the Library Service Center, and the Woodruff Library collections, with a closer integration of each other's fulfillment functionality.

A couple of important points to note:

• The Fulfillment Network will allow us to loan items directly to patrons at each other’s institutions. When the patron places their first request at the other institution’s system, that action generates a new patron account in the other institution’s Alma . We are only sharing minimal patron information (name & email) when these accounts are created. Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students requesting in this way will be added to the “Georgia Tech Patrons” user group in Emory’s Alma.

• When receiving, checking out, and returning items from Georgia Tech collections an additional step will be required in Alma: When you select the option "Manage Patron Services," under patron identification you will see a box marked as "Find user in other institution." When you check that box, another bar opens. Click on that bar and select Georgia Tech (View images below). Then enter students account information.

Returning Georgia Tech Items

• Woodruff Stack Tower, Music Media Stacks, and Science Commons Stacks collections will be added to the Library Service Center collections that Georgia Tech users can request and borrow. These items will loan for 120 days, with 3 renewals. Georgia Tech Library Service Center collections will loan to Emory Users for the same time periods.

Thank You,

Lyndon Batiste