ILL Institutional Patron Dialog Box

When lending items through interlibrary loan, NCIP uses a default “institutional patron” as the borrower. Only one institutional patron is used for all ILL lending. When the request is filled in the other system, the Polaris item will be checked out automatically to this NCIP patron. See Setting NCIP Parameters.

A single patron record with the barcode NCIPpatron001 must be set up and the selected as the institutional patron for successful processing. If a patron record with the barcode NCIPpatron001 has been defined, the patron record will be selected in the dialog box.

If your library is licensed to use INN-Reach, the institutional patron is used in the creation of virtual patron records for INN-Reach. See Enable Creation of Virtual Patron Records .