Borrow Direct Migration Project

The project will support the development of Harvard Access Services workflows and technical integrations with Alma and ILLiad in order to meet the IPLC migration of the BorrowDirect service from Relais D2D to Reshare Returnables.  The migration will require an ongoing feed of bibliographic and item data for materials available for loan through the BorrowDirect services to the POD data lake (tracked in the Borrow Direct HOLLIS Integration Project), development of new staff workflows for processing Borrow Direct requests, NCIP and z39.50 integrations with Alma, and an adjustment of data feeds into ILLiad for our fulfillment of loan requests from our partners. The 90 million records available to our users via BorrowDirect will be made discoverable via a consolidated VuFind catalog provided by IndexData, the project’s vendor partner. 

Project Goals 

• Develop internal Harvard staff workflows to support efficient processing of Borrow Direct lending and borrowing activities. 
• Integrate Reshare Returnables with Alma and ILLiad. 

Background 

In January 2022, The IPLC executive committee approved a proposal to move the BorrowDirect service from the current Relais D2D platform to ReShare Returnables, with data being pulled from the POD data lake.  

Vision   

Time Line

Reshare Project Timeline 

• Borrow Direct Gantt chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GOcOpzemWTteceQXaA0AQ1jwvs40RiEZTmvMN7sKmIo/edit#gid=0
• Index Data/POD development work:  
• Harvard Preparation and Integration:  

Major Harvard Milestones 

• Harvard ILLiad integration: December 2022 
• Harvard ILS/Alma integration: December 2022
• Harvard Discovery Link Updates: December 2022
• IPLC decommission of Relais D2D: March 2023

 Dependencies 

• IndexData development completes on schedule 

Project Teams (see individual pages for membership)