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Prevent multiple requests from a same borrowing library within a short period of time

Within a same day, we sometimes receive (in Alma) several RapidILL requests coming from a same institution for a same book or journal issue (native electronic materials or scans from physical materials): usually one request per book chapter, one request per article, etc., but sometimes, some of these requests are for multiple chapters or significant portions of a work. We assume that in most cases, these multiple requests come from a same requester, associated to the borrowing library. In addition to copyright issues that multiple request raise, it is unreasonable to expect a lending library to expend spending a lot of time to scan significant portions of a work. We don’t expect any systematic mediation from borrowing libraries. This would increase the turnaround time, make the process heavier and slower for end-users and be in contradiction with encouraged integrations like Alma/RapidILL and Alma/Rapido. Instead, we would like lending libraries to have the possibility to limit the number of requests they receive from a same borrowing library for a same book or journal issue within a given (short) period of time. Example of configuration: “Maximum XX requests in YY hours for a same book or journal issue from a same borrowing library”, where ‘XX’ and ‘YY’ would be numeric values to select from a drop-down list. Possible values for XX and YY should be defined in collaboration with the RapidILL and Rapido WGs. In case the values for XX or YY would be reached: 1) Any new request matching the limits should be assigned to another lending institution that owns the requested material. 2) The borrowing library should be informed that there is a risk of multiple requests from a same requester. The library could reach the requester, explain the resulting copyright issues and/or decide if possible to acquire the highly demanded material. 3) If no other library can provide the material, request should be cancelled and associated with a new ‘Request Cancellation Reason’ code in Alma. It is important that Resource Sharing requests that would be cancelled for such reasons explain the requester that requesting a too large part of a journal issue or book is not without consequences or risks.

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