CSU/SUNY Alma Resource Sharing Pilot Project

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This FAQ contains information on the Alma resource sharing pilot project between the California State University (CSU) system and SUNY. It is being maintained by SUNY Library Services. If you have any questions about this project, please email timothy.jackson@suny.edu.

For CSU's documentation on this project, please see: https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/URS/pages/2132213823/CSU+and+SUNY+Task+Force

Last Updated: July 20, 2022

Pilot Project Parameters

Start Date: July 2021
End Date: May 2022
Request Types: Physical requests only
Loan Period: 16 weeks with no renewals
Shipping Method: no specific shipping requirements, but all participants should use a trackable shipping method

Pilot Project Participants

CSU General Contact: Chris Lee (cwlee@calstate.edu)		SUNY General Contact: Timothy Jackson (timothy.jackson@suny.edu)
Campus	Contacts	Campus	Contacts
Chico	Christina Misuraca (cmisuraca@csuchico.edu) Jeannie Graham (jgraham@csuchico.edu) Karen Wagner (kmwagner@csuchico.edu) Leslie Botsford (lbotsford@csuchico.edu)	Albany	Angela Persico (apersico@albany.edu)
Fullerton	Stacy Caron (scaron@fullerton.edu)	Buffalo	Borrowing: Anne Bouvier (bouvier@buffalo.edu) Lending: Lisa McLaughlin (lisapano@buffalo.edu)
Humboldt	Meghann Weldon (meghann@humboldt.edu)	Binghamton	Elise Thornley (thornley@binghamton.edu)
Northridge	Borrowing: sara.larson@csun.edu Lending: melissa.duran@csun.edu General: interlibrary.loan@csun.edu, darnesa.morris@csun.edu	Oswego	Morgan Bond (morgan.bond@oswego.edu)
Sacramento	Astra Gleason (gleasona@csus.edu)	Purchase	Kristen Heinrich (kristen.heinrich@purchase.edu)
		Stony Brook	Matthew Hartman (matthew.hartman@stonybrook.edu)

Configuration

Below is a summary of SUNY's configuration for this pilot project. All SUNY participants were configured in the same manner by SLS.

Cal State Resource Sharing Partners: Chico, Fullerton, Humboldt, Northridge, Sarcamento
- distributed from SUNY Network Zone
Rota Template: Cal State
- distributed from SUNY Network Zone
Rota Assignment Rule: Cal State
- applied to all physical requests
Temporary Item Creation Rule: RS Cal State Loan
- applied when lending partner is a CSU library
- assigns RS Cal State Loan item policy to items borrowed from CSU libraries
Loan Terms of Use: Cal State Borrowing Long Loan
- 112 day loan period
- no renewals allowed
Loan Fulfillment Unit Rule: RS Cal State Loan
- applied to resource sharing loans with RS Cal State Loan item policy