Related product I-Share

Alma Configuration: Setting a user group as not I-Share eligible

When adding a new, not-I-Share-eligible user group to Alma, either library staff or CARLI staff need to make two configuration changes in Alma.

  • With Voyager, we had to opt-in new user groups to make them eligible.
  • With Alma, it is opt-out to prevent them from being I-Share eligible.

Steps to opt-out a user group from I-Share:

  1. To prevent the non-eligible user records from being retrieved by staff at other I-Share libraries:
    In Configuration at the Institutional Level> User Management> Collaborative Networks> Restricted Users> add a row for the not-I-Share-eligible user group.
  2. To hide the I-Share request link in Primo VE from non-eligible users:
    In Configuration at the Institutional Level> Fulfillment> Discovery Interface Display Logic > Display Logic Rules> look for the rule that says something like as "For user groups X, Y, Z: Hide service Resource Sharing Request" (where X, Y, and Z are other non-I-Share-eligible user groups at your institution), edit the rule to add in the new not-I-Share-eligible user group.

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