Has anyone added an order-/request-/loan material-function to AtoM?

[Rasmus Lindgren]

Hi!
The national library of Sweden and Umeå University Library are in the process of expanding our current AtoM-based collection catalogue to create a shared catalogue for our special collections (https://arken.kb.se/?sf_culture=en). 

We are now interested in adding an order-/request-/loan material-function directly in AtoM to replace the current routine of simply listing links to different external order forms depending on which collection it is.  

What we would like is some sort of button that you can click to order a specific unit in an archival description which leads to an order-form which is then sent to an email-adress for example. 

Are there any institutions that have added a module or developed their version of AtoM to include a similar function?

Kind regards/

Rasmus Lindgren, National Library of Sweden

[Dan Gillean]

Hi Rasmus, 

I've seen several loans and/or request modules that have been built for AtoM over the years, but these have not been incorporated back into the public project - generally because they were too organization-specific or built against old releases with not budget to maintain and upgrade, etc. However, I can think of at least two examples that might be close to what you're looking for. 

One example involves newer 2.6 functionality, a different reference request application, and a homegrown web page acting as a broker in the middle. 

The Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives recently migrated to AtoM, but were already using the proprietary application Aeon to manage reference requests, and wanted to keep using it. In the end, we added the ability to send Clipboard requests as JSON to an external site (docs here), and Becker IT staff developed a locally maintained web page that could receive the data and allow the user to choose next steps, which would then feed into one of three different flows managed by Aeon. You can see it in action by going to the Becker AtoM site, Adding a collection or item to the clipboard (labelled "My Requests" on their site), then clicking the "Send My Requests to Becker Archives" button found there. 

This will redirect you to a custom landing page maintained by Becker staff, where your clipboard items are shown, and you can choose to: 

• Schedule a visit to view the selected materials
• Save for later
• Order reproductions

Depending on what you pick, this then passes the request off to 3 separate Aeon workflows. 

Another example worth mentioning is the Shopping Cart feature on the Mennnonite Archival Image Database (MAID). This allows users to order reproductions of images found in the shared catalog. The code for this, developed by PeaceWorks Technology Solutions,  has not been incorporated into a public AtoM release, but it is available with documentation. We've got further information on the AtoM wiki, here: 

• https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Community_resources/Development#eCommerce_plugin
  

Slides 19-26 of this slide deck will also describe the feature, with some images: 

• https://www.slideshare.net/accesstomemory/atom-implementations
  

Cheers, 

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Program Manager
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056

@accesstomemory

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