The Five Colleges each provide various borrowing privileges to groups that are neither employed at nor attending the schools. These patrons may be alums, local residents, state residents, visiting scholars, or others. To access the “My Account” features of Discovery, including requests and loan information, these patrons will need to have accounts created for them in OpenAthens as well as in FOLIO. The matchpoints between FOLIO and Discovery are the Username (which is the patron’s barcode) and the External System ID (which is [barcode]@[institution].edu.)
If you need to create OpenAthens accounts for unaffiliated borrowers but do not have the ability to do so, please contact the OpenAthens admin at your institution:
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