{"id":5996,"date":"2022-04-28T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:44:26","slug":"what-is-rialto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/2022\/04\/28\/what-is-rialto\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Adopts New Acquisitions Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month the George Fox library becomes the first in the northwest to adopt&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/about.proquest.com\/en\/products-services\/Rialto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rialto<\/a>, a new acquisitions system.&nbsp; Previously we used one vendor for print books, another for ebooks, and both of their systems were separate from our library system.&nbsp; The recently-developed Rialto will handle both our print and ebook orders, and was built as a component of our library system (Alma).&nbsp; Ordering from within our own system means we can see fund information, related holdings, usage data, and other information as part of the selection and ordering process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reducing the number of systems involved also means a faster turnaround time.&nbsp; For many ebooks (though not all), access will be turned on for our George Fox community minutes after ordering.&nbsp; Troubleshooting may be simpler as well, with fewer parties involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also fun to think about what new services and efficiencies might be possible down the road, as Alma develops further.&nbsp; We look forward to having our selection and ordering on the same platform with most of our other library functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions about Rialto? Contact university librarian <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgefox.edu\/library\/about\/bios\/rolfe.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.georgefox.edu\/library\/about\/bios\/rolfe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Rolfe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the George Fox library becomes the first in the northwest to adopt&nbsp;Rialto, a new acquisitions system.&nbsp; Previously we used one vendor for print books, another for ebooks, and both of their systems were separate from our library system.&nbsp; The recently-developed Rialto will handle both our print and ebook orders, and was built as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":6004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}