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Resource Sharing for Groups release notes, August 2025

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Release Date: August 23, 2025

Introduction

This release of Resource Sharing for Groups provides new enhancements. These features will help you manage more complex workflows, including:

  • Enhanced renewal request notifications for improved communication
  • Automated status updates throughout the renewal process

These enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.

Recommended actions

For this release, we recommend that you review the following checklists and complete the relevant tasks so that you can adjust your policies and workflows and train your staff. These checklists identify updates that we have determined as significant for most institutions. We encourage you to review all of the items in the release notes to determine whether there are other items that might require additional action or follow up by your institution.

Administrative actions

These items require immediate action or decisions.

Action
  • For best performance, it's very important to clear your browser's cache before starting to work with Resource Sharing for Groups. 
  • Review your notification preferences to ensure renewal request notifications are enabled for appropriate staff members. 

Follow-up actions

In an effort to keep your staff informed of new features and changes, you may also want to consider these items.

Action
  • Share these release notes with your colleagues. 
  • Train staff on the new renewal request notification workflow. 

New features and enhancements

Enhanced Renewal Request Notifications

For libraries using Resource Sharing for Groups

We have introduced three new notification types to improve communication and transparency throughout the renewal request process: 

Renewal Request Submitted Notification 

  • Automatically send patron notifications when a renewal request has been submitted 
  • Includes item details, original due date, and requested renewal period 

Renewal Request Approved Notification 

  • Automatically send a confirmation email to the patron when a renewal request has been approved by the lending library 
  • Includes item details and the new due date 

Renewal Request Denied Notification 

  • Notifies patrons when a renewal request has been declined by the lending library 
  • Includes item details and a reminder of the item’s due date 

These notifications ensure that patrons stay informed throughout the renewal process, reducing the need for manual status checking and improving overall workflow efficiency. The automated notifications help prevent communication gaps. 

If your library is currently using Resource Sharing for Groups, staff can configure these notifications following this release. You can configure notification preferences through your standard notification settings in Service Configuration. 

For more information, refer to Notifications.

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