[Evergreen-general] OCLC's Real-time availability functionality with Evergreen?

Elaine Hardy ehardy at georgialibraries.org
Thu Jun 30 15:13:49 EDT 2022


I haven't looked at this feature in awhile, but if I recall correctly, they
weren't able to do real time availability  in a consortial environment with
a shared catalog. That might have changed since it first rolled out.

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:21 AM Kate Coleman via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Does anyone use OCLC's real-time availability in their ILL workflow?
> According to OCLC, " Real-time availability connects your OCLC resource
> sharing service (WorldShare ILL, Tipasa, or ILLiad) to your library’s local
> catalog to determine if a requested item is available. When your library is
> the current lender in the string, real-time availability checks the item’s
> status in your local system." Their questionnaire regarding the product
> asks what ILS you use and lists the usual suspects, but not Evergreen.
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