Solicitudes ILL / préstamos interbibliotecarios

El módulo de solicitudes de ILL (Préstamos interbibliotecarios) le da la posibilidad de solicitar y administrar préstamos o copias de material desde fuentes externas. Los socios envían un formulario de solicitud desde el OPAC para su revisión y procesamiento por parte del personal de la biblioteca. Así mismo, el personal de la biblioteca puede realizar dichas solicitudes desde la interfaz de la intranet.

Configuración

Antes de utilizar el módulo de ILL asegúrese de haber completado toda la configuración.

The ILL requests module can be configured for different types of requests and workflows known as backends. Currently available backends are documented on the Koha community wiki at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ILL_backends. You will need to configure at least one backend.

A continuación, configure las preferencias de su sistema.

• Set the ILLModule preference to ‘Enable’.

• If you wish to include a copyright declaration in your ILL workflow you can this in the ILLModuleCopyrightClearance preference.

Library staff responsible for ILL requests need the following permission set on their account: ill: Create and modify Interlibrary loan requests.

The ILL requests module uses system defined statuses. You can add custom statuses to match your ILL workflow as ILLSTATUS authorized values.

Crear solicitudes ILL

• Get there: More > ILL requests

• Choose ‘New ILL request’ and then Freeform.

  Nota

  The images shown here are for the FreeFrom backend only.

• Enter a Type: Book, Article, Journal, Other.

• In the next two sections enter as much as information as you can including chapter/article/part if applicable.

• Add custom fields, for example if you wished to add a note.

• Under the borrower options enter the library branch you would like the request to be sent to.

Click on ‘Create’ and you will be shown a Request details summary page. Click on the ‘Confirm request’ button and you will see the following confirmation message:

Click ‘Confirm request’ again to create your request.

Viewing ILL requests

From the main ILL requests screen you can see all of your ILL requests. You can also click on the ‘View requests’ button at any time.

There is a large amount of data available in the Requests table so it is advisable to make use of column visibility to view only the information you need. The first half of the table displays data related to the ILL item itself such as title, volume, page numbers.

The second half of the table displays data related to the request such as notes and comments.

Managing ILL requests

Click on the ‘Manage request’ button in the final column. Depending on the current status of the request you may see some or all of the following options:

• Editar solicitud

  • you can edit the borrowernumber, biblionumber, branch and can add notes.

• Confirm request

  • place the request with a document supply service using a backend such as BLDSS.

• Place request with partners

  • place the request via email with a partner library

• Borrar

  • fully delete the request. Details of deleted requests are not retained in Koha.

• Revert request

  • following a status of ‘Requested’ or ‘Requested from partners’ library staff can cancel the request from the external source. The status reverts to ‘New’

• Mark completed

  • used when the ILL request has been fulfilled.

• Edit item metadata

  • Depending on the backend used for the request you may be able to edit, add or delete some or all of the request metadata. For example, if the metdata has originated from a requestor using the FreeForm backend this may need to be edited, whereas metadata from an external recognised source such as BLDSS should not.

• Mostrar metadatos del proveedor

  • Displays any extra metadata that might have been provided by your ILL supplier that has not been included in the standard request fields.

• Comentarios

  • It is possible to add comments to an ILL request and these can be used by ILL staff to keep track of work undertaken. Comments are read only and are stored in chronological order. They display the borrower details and date of the comment. If present, the number of comments is displayed in the List requests view.

Request statuses

The full list of ILL statuses are:

• Nueva solicitud

• Requerido

• Solicitado por los socios

• Solicitud revertida

• Cancellation requested – a patron has requested cancellation from the OPAC.

• Completado

Place request with partners

If you have a network of partner libraries which permit ILL requests you can manage this through Koha. First you need to create your partner library accounts:

• You will need to set up a patron category with the code ILLLIBS.

• You will need to create a patron account with this category for each partner library.

• Each library must have an email address as this will be the mechanism for sending the inter-library loan request.

You can now use the “Place request with partners” option when processing requests.