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title: Glossary
description: "**Archive**: The storage environment that automatically or manually houses all concluded, fulfilled, or unfulfilled borrowing and lending requests for historical tracking. **Article Exchange (A.E.)**: An external delivery method used outside the direct platform workflow to transmit requested documents. **Borrowing Environment**:…"
url: "https://talaria.cnr.it/docs/kb/getting-started/glossary/"
updated: "2026-09-04"
category: Getting Started
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# Glossary

**Archive**: The storage environment that automatically or manually houses all concluded, fulfilled, or unfulfilled borrowing and lending requests for historical tracking.

**Article Exchange (A.E.)**: An external delivery method used outside the direct platform workflow to transmit requested documents.

**Borrowing Environment**: The dedicated interface where borrowing libraries search for references, initiate new requests, and track pending items.

**Borrowing**: A TALARIA core module and environment used by libraries to submit, track, cancel, or update requests for items from other institutions.

**Cancel Requested**: A status indicating that the borrowing library has requested a cancellation on an item that the lender has already accepted to supply.

**Cannot Fulfill**: An action button and menu that allows a lending library to decline a request by selecting from a list of standardized rejection reasons.

**Check Document**: A verification icon and step used to confirm that a received digital file or URL has been successfully opened, downloaded, and verified.

**Document Delivery**: The process of supplying or distributing requested academic and scientific documents between libraries.

**Emails (System)/System Emails**: These are mandatory communications involving user-related actions and core platform functionality. They cover account creation, password changes, recovery processes, registration, administrative tasks, and user permissions across the system. Because they are vital to platform security and operation, system emails cannot be opted out of.

**Emails (Service)/Service Emails**: These involve specific interlibrary loan service processes, such as borrowing, lending, or library document requests. For example, when an item is requested from your library, you receive a service email detailing the borrowing library, the lending library, the request specifics, and the reference information. A direct link button at the bottom of the email redirects you straight to the relevant page.

**File**: An electronic delivery method where lenders upload a digital document directly into the system to fulfill a request.

**I Will Supply**: The primary acceptance icon used by a lending library to take over an incoming request and change its status to active fulfillment.

**Institution**: the legal entity/The organization that owns or administers a library.

**Interlibrary Loan (ILL)**: Services and protocols concerning the borrowing and lending of materials between different library institutions.

**ISIL (International Standard Identifier for Libraries)**: An ISO 15511 standard identifier used to uniquely identify libraries and related organizations.

**Lending**: A TALARIA core module and environment used to manage the supply and fulfillment of materials requested by other libraries.

**Library**: A specific service unit or facility that provides access to information resources, collections, and library services to its users. A library typically operates within an institution. A library typically operates within an institution.

**Link Resolver**: A tool connected via the Library Profile to check local library holdings against bibliographic references.

**New Request**: The tab and starting point used within library permissions or the borrowing environment to initiate a brand-new acquisition query.

**Not Fulfilled**: A request status indicating that the lending library was unable or chose not to supply the requested material.

**OpenAlex Integration**: A feature integrated with OpenAlex API to check and provide direct links to open access versions of resources.

**OpenURL**: A protocol used to import new bibliographic references directly from major online databases or publishers' websites.

**Orphaned Requests**: Requests sent to "ALL libraries" that are visible on a community board until an available library claims and accepts them for supply.

**Pending Requests**: The administrative section containing the list of all active requests that have been received, broadcasted, or taken over, awaiting final fulfillment.

**Pick-up Desks**: Designated physical locations managed by Delivery Operators for printing and handing out non-digitally delivered documents to patrons.

**Progressive Web App (PWA)**: Web technology used by TALARIA to ensure a responsive, secure, and app-like browsing experience across platforms.

**Received**: A status assigned to a request once it has been successfully delivered and processed by the borrowing library.

**Requested**: The active status of a borrowing request after submission while it is awaiting acceptance, broadcasting, or fulfillment by a lender library.

**Resource Sharing (RS)**: Collaborative exchange of materials and documents among library communities.

**RSCVD**: A library platform interface and resource-sharing network utilized alongside systems like TALARIA to facilitate document requests and collaborative fulfillment.

**TALARIA**: An open-source resource-sharing and document delivery management software developed under the HERMES project^.

**URL**: A digital delivery method requiring the lender to insert a direct web link to the requested material.

**User dashboard**: After logging in, the user is redirected to their dashboard from where the user can manage their roles and libraries.

**Will Supply**: The lending status activated immediately after a library clicks "I will supply," indicating commitment to processing and fulfilling the request.