2019-12-11 Consortia SIG Meeting Notes

Single tenant with multiple libraries - consideration for consortial implementations 

Permissions & restrictions in FOLIO

Multiple libraries in single tenant slidedeck

Question: If, in a single tenant with multiple libraries you can

• Have multiple, independent financial structures that are viewable and editable by a specified group
• Have multiple, independent connections to knowledge bases (presumably all of one type ie. EBSCO or GOKB)
• Share patron data (but not limit editing to individual institutions)
• Share bibliographic information and items (but not limit editing to individual institutions)

Q: What's the dividing line between a single and multi tenant consortial implementation

• current single tenant plans include partitioning ERM for multiple libraries
• use cases for cross tenant
  • libraries with multiple relationships
  • systems integrations
  • multiple sets of bib records (i.e. OCLC and SkyRiver)
  • bib records purchased by a single library in a consortium - restricting other libraries from attaching holdings/items (or even see them perhaps), enhanced content like Syndetics
  • strict scoping of patrons (becomes more of an issue with student data privacy laws emerging)
  • separate tenants that need to do buying club activities

Q: Is this a possible solution for bib and authority record sharing?

• is Libris open source? (it's on GitHub)
• Chalmers is harvesting records from Libris into FOLIO; not sure how requests and patrons across the consortium are managed
• still requires establishing  resource sharing policies, workflows, and functionality

Next week (12/18) - return to Cross-tenant borrowing and requesting discussion

No meetings on 12/25 or 1/1.