InterLibrary Loan and Alma General Electronic Services (GES)

Revised Oct. 16, 2024

Creating links to your ILL service from Primo VE

This page lists the documents and information that you will need to review if you would like to add links to your Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service within Alma/Primo VE.

Alma Roles required

General System Administrator or Fulfillment Administrator: You will need this role for creating General Electronic Services (GES) in Alma under Alma Configuration > Fulfillment > Discovery Interface Display Logic > General Electronic Services and to create and edit Display Logic Rules under Alma Configuration > Fulfillment > Discovery Interface Display Logic > Display Logic Rules

General Overviews of General Electronic Services

It is strongly recommended that you view the following two items first.

• Configuring General Electronic Services. Ex Libris documentation provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up an ILL-related GES.
• Ex Libris training video (3 mins.) with general information on GES that also includes a step-by-step example of setting up ILLad GES.

Adding ILLiad as a General electronic servce in Alma

Example of Setting up ILLiad as a GES in Alma

• ILLiad URL Templates for Alma General Electronic Services. From the Ex Libris Developers Network.
• Contact ILLiad support for your base URL if you do not know it.

Adding Tipasa as a General electronic service in Alma

Example of Setting up Tipasa as a GES in Alma

• Ex Libris Tech Blog posts on Tipasa integration
  • Alma and Tipasa Integration
  • Alma – OCLC Tipasa NCIP Integration
• Contact OCLC's Tipasa support for your base URL if you do not know it.

Display Logic rules (related to displaying GES after set up)

Display logic rules in Alma can be used to set when an option displays or doesn't display in Primo VE. For example, you might want your ILL form to display only when the item isn't available at another institution within I-Share. You can use display logic rules to set up such a scenario. More information on how to set up display logic rules will be provided soon.

• Ex Libris documentation on Configuring Discovery Interface Display Logic for Primo VE.
• CARLI's page on Interlibrary Loan-Related Display Logic Rules