How will the "Place Holds" function change as RDP Library moves to a new platform?
Answer
Red Deer Polytechnic Library is moving to a new platform on May 1, 2025.
As a result, there will be changes to the Place Holds function in the Library catalogue.
RDP Library Materials
For RDP materials, there will be no immediate change to the Place Holds function in the Library catalogue. RDP Library students, faculty, and staff will continue to use their NEOS barcode and PIN to place a hold on an RDP Library item in the Library Catalogue until May 1, 2025.
Closer to May 1, 2025, information will be provided about the new way to Place Holds on RDP Library materials in the Library Catalogue.
Materials Owned by Other NEOS Libraries
Placing a Hold on another NEOS Library’s items prior to their departure from the Library Catalogue will continue to require your NEOS barcode and PIN.
As each NEOS Member Library leaves the shared catalogue (according to the schedule below), the following changes will occur:
- RDP members will not be able to Place a Hold on a departed library’s item (using your NEOS barcode and PIN), but will instead request those items through Interlibrary Loan. This may be a slower process.
- Note: the inability to Place a Hold on a departing library's item may occur several weeks prior to that library's departure date.
- The departed library’s items will no longer appear in catalogue search results.
- RDP members will not be able to physically return library materials to departed libraries.
- RDP members will not be able to pick up NEOS Holds at departed libraries.
- Holdings within the shared catalogue will shrink as libraries depart.
Schedule
Changes will be gradual as each Member Library departs the shared catalogue according to this schedule:
- Alberta Health Services and Covenant Libraries – Exit completed (January 8, 2024).
- Northern Lakes College Library – Exit completed (September 2, 2024).
- MacEwan University Library – Exit completed (November 22, 2024).
- Olds College Library - Exit scheduled for February 2025.
- Newman Theological College Library – Exit scheduled for March 2025.
- Norquest College Library - Exit scheduled for April 2025.
- Concordia University of Edmonton Library - Exit scheduled for May 2025.
- Keyano College Library - Exit scheduled for May 2025.
- King’s University Library - Exit scheduled for May 2025.
- Northwestern Polytechnic Library - Exit scheduled for May 2025.
- Burman University Library - Exit scheduled for May 2025.
For more information, contact:
Project Lead / General Questions
Mary Dallas: mary.dallas@rdpolytech.ca
Project Manager / Technical Questions
Tara Gunsch: taralyn.gunsch@rdpolytech.ca
Questions from Other Libraries regarding Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing
Barb Mahoney: barbara.mahoney@rdpolytech.ca
Questions from RDP Faculty about Finding, Using, and Linking Library Resources
Sona Macnaughton: sona.macnaughton@rdpolytech.ca
