In September of 2025, look for an Orbis Cascade Alliance Recruitment email. If you love exploring Alma configurations, and are willing to help this group document best practices and workflows in circulation, reserves, and more, we’d love to talk with you about serving on the FSG!
Potential 2025-2026 Projects
The FSG is excited to present these major projects for consideration in the upcoming 2024-2025 term. We will choose two or three of these projects to move into production:
- Diving into Course Reserves – reserves was the focus of our initial project when FSG was in its infancy but it’s time to revisit this topic with an eye toward new functionality and streamlining processes, including course loaders, bookstore connections, and analytics.
- Alma Feature Release Notes and Testing – helping the community through examination of new Alma features released in November, February, and May
- Improving Web Presence for Fulfillment Essentials
Recently Completed Projects
- Time Flies – Adjust Your Calendars! – A series of Alma-related configurations to use calendars more effectively for loans and projects.
- Improved Letters Basic Documentation – A starting place for leaning how to make your circulation related emails say what you want them to say.
Documentation
Our group is always creating new documentation and updating the resources we’ve already accumulated. Our work can be found in the Fulfillment Essentials section. Check back regularly to see what’s new!
Have a question or suggestion? Contact the FSG.
Charge
The Fulfillment Standing Group (FSG) is charged with:
- Improving and standardizing documentation
- Strengthening fulfillment and configuration expertise
- Providing documentation of best practices and the creation and maintenance of online training manuals
- Participating in RSF community calls
- Suggesting potential Alliance-wide areas of standardization
- Responding to requests with just-in-time training regionally or through web or video-based resources
