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Welcome to Alma
Fulfillment Terminology
The Alma Home PageThe Alma home page is the initial page that appears when you log in to Alma. You return to the Alma home page when you select the Duke logo in the persistent menu or when you cancel certain actions in Alma. The specific elements that display on the Alma home page and menu options depend on your user roles. However, the home page always presents:
Additional features you can enable:
User RolesUser Roles define what functions a user can perform in Alma. Each role confers a set of permissions, and staff members will have multiple roles assigned to them, depending on their job responsibilities. Roles are specific to a library location (i.e., a Lilly staff member might have a “Circulation Desk Manager” role at Lilly but only a “Circulation Desk Operator” role at Music). Staff should always make sure they are logged in to the correct circulation desk location. Some circulation-related roles in Alma have three tiers: Manager (with the highest level of permissions), Operator, and Operator – Limited. All users, staff and patrons, will have the role of Patron in Alma, which allows borrowing of materials. Other roles are related to Circulation Desk functions, Requests, Users, Inventory, Course Reserves, and more. For detailed information on Alma User Role Profiles, Job Categories, and how those affect permissions, see Permissions and Role Management. |
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Still need to figure out if we’re including this info and, if so, where |
Fulfillment units (buckets of locations where the circ rules live)
Fulfillment configuration utility - https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/070Advanced_Tools/010Loans/010Fulfillment_Configuration_Utility
Alma circulation behaves differently than Aleph circulation.
In Aleph, circulation is controlled by an item’s sub library, item status, process status and availability, along with the patron group.
In Alma, circulation is controlled primarily by the item’s location, which is grouped into “fulfillment units” that have the same set of rules. E.g., we have a fullfilment unit called “Standard Loan” that includes stacks locations and other general collections where we generally allow faculty to borrow for an academic year, undergrads to borrow for 28 days, and so on.
Definitions:
Fulfillment unit: “A fulfillment unit is one or more physical locations within an institution that follow the same policies.” (Ex Libris definition from here: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/080Configuring_Fulfillment/020Fulfillment_Infrastructure/Configuring_Physical_Fulfillment )
Terms of use: “Terms of Use (TOU) are groups of policies that define loan and requesting behavior for patrons.” (Ex Libris definition from document above)
Showed up in another school’s training, and early users talked about this
Fulfillment configuration tool shows the terms of use – maybe that’s a place to introduce naming?
(ie, circulation rules)