Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announce that Bond University, in Queensland, Australia, has gone live with the Ex Libris Rapido™ resource sharing platform. The university decided to adopt the Rapido platform to handle an increased demand for interlibrary loans (ILLs) while lowering costs. The free Rapido reciprocal lending model provides significant savings for libraries, like Bond’s, that had previously been using a “pay-per-loan” system for both print and document delivery.
The library found that ILL costs were going up because Primo searches enabled students to locate and request resources beyond the locally held collections. With both loan fees and postage costs increasing, the librarians at Bond looked for a better solution, one that would allow them to handle the increased ILL traffic without going over budget. This issue was particularly important when the COVID-19 pandemic set in, because some students were studying remotely and couldn’t access the library’s physical collections.
Bond University was already using the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform, Primo® discovery tool, and RapidILL™ interlibrary loan system before buying Rapido. With Rapido deployed on the Ex Libris higher-ed cloud platform, all these systems are working together seamlessly.
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