Tipasa release notes, March 2023

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See dates adjusted for your library's time zone and locale

Until now, the OCLC interlibrary loan network has been very US Eastern Time centric. Regardless of where you are located in the world, dates and times have displayed in Eastern Time and US style for date and time stamps.

With this release, values are now stored with full UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) date and time stamps. This enables the display of dates to you and your users in your institution's time zone and region's preferred format, which eliminates the need to convert dates and times to your local time zone. These are derived from the following values the WorldCat Registry:

• Open Hours (for time zone)
• Currency and Locale (for preferred format)

Your time zone and preferred format are displayed in the following places:

• OCLC Policies Directory: Schedule tab (Open Hours, Closure Dates)
• Tipasa staff interface: Request history, all date fields (i.e., need by date, request date, shipped date, due date, received date, returned date)

Example 1: Closure Dates. If you are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC +11:00 hours) and set a closure for March 20-27:

Users in US Central Time (UTC –6:00 hours) will see the closure as March 19-26:

Example 2: Due Date. The value saved is the UTC equivalent of 23:59:59 in the lender's time zone on the date entered as the due date. 

Nota

• With the My Account release on March 6, date and time enhancements for ILL items were installed in the My Account interface, including submitted date, patron due date, need-by date, and notification dates. Until this Tipasa release on March 19, a date displayed in My Account could be up to 1 day different than the corresponding date displayed in the Tipasa staff interface. 
• For circulation integration with WMS, Alma, Sierra, or Millennium, the full date and time in UTC will be sent.
• Printouts were not updated with this release, but they will be with an upcoming release. In the meantime, we recommend that you do not include due dates on book straps.
• Notifications likewise were not updated with this release, but they will be with an upcoming release.
• Requests that were in-flight before this install will not be updated retroactively.

For more information, or questions about specific date and time changes, please feel free to contact OCLC Support.

Utilize enhancements to off-system requesting

Improve fill rates and speed in-group fulfillment with enhanced requestability

For libraries that have subscribed to OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups

By leveraging the Automated Request Manager, enhanced requestability provides a more accurate lender assignment for a group than is possible today. And, enhanced requestability groups (ERGs) are profiled groups with an improved requestability response for participating group members.

To improve fill rates and speed in-group fulfillment for group members, when the ERG group symbol is used to identify lenders, the resulting lender string is informed by the following:

• Real-time item availability
• Collection profiling (which includes shelving location)
• Lender to borrower turnaround time
• The group's custom load balancing

ERGs will appear in the profiled group lists in both OCLC Service Configuration and the OCLC Policies Directory.

For more information, see Custom Holdings Paths.

Approfondimenti sul prodotto: Resource Sharing

To help you become familiar with the enhancements and fixes, please attend the upcoming webinar Product Insights: Resource Sharing (date to be determined).