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Home > Support > Key Resources & Bookings > Resource Sharing

Resource Sharing

General Information

  • Patron Record and Resource sharing library
  • Search for Lending and Borrowing Requests – Staff can search for lending and borrowing requests from the persistent menu.
  • Staff not able to see Resource Sharing – Staff roles and scope needed to see resource sharing requests.
  • Messages How to create, view and dismiss – Messages are to communicate about a request.
  • How to close your library for borrowing or lending requests – If your library is not able to accept new borrowing requests from your patrons you can change a setting so the request link does not appear in Primo. As a lending library, new lending requests can be automatically rejected while your library is closed.
  • MNLINK Discovery and Alma – A patron can login to MNLINK Discovery, create an ILL request and the request transfers to Alma

Borrowing Requests

  • Chart of Basic Returnable Request Cycle
  • How to create a Returnable request
  • How to create an Article request
  • Receive a request
  • Return a borrowing request
  • How to update a borrowing request with a status of Ready to be Sent
  • Rejected borrowing request- how to cancel a rejected borrowing request
  • Borrowing Request “Pending Approval” status

Lending Request

  • Ship a Returnable Request
  • Reject (unfill) a request
  • Lending “Print Slip” Routing or Lending Slip
  • Check-in(Close) a Request

ILL Community of Interest

  • ILL Community of Interest Dates and Topics

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3022 Memorial Library
Mankato, MN 56001
Phone: 507.389.2000

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