Acquisitions SIG Home
Charge: The Acquisitions SIG is assembled to refine requirements and acquisitions mockups, as well as final review and comment.
Key Contacts
Name | Affiliation | Area of concern | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
@Susanne Gill | BVB | Group membership and meeting notes | Convener |
@Dennis Bridges | EBSCO | Acquisitions applications | Product Owner |
@Joseph Reimers | EBSCO | Acquisitions applications | Co-Product Owner |
Description
The Acquisitions SIG was formerly a subgroup of the Resource Management SIG. Acq SIG is charged with working with developers to refine the acquisitions functionality and look and feel. The Acquisitions SIG regularly meets every Tuesday and every other Friday to provide input on development efforts. Members not only commit to regular attendance at these meetings, but also to working on projects and tasks outside of meeting times that contribute to the definition as well as presentation of the requirements. New members will understandably need time to ramp up and get acquainted with the applications and issues at hand. It is the responsibility of each member to stay current with pertinent topics in order to keep discussions moving forward. New members can be paired with more experienced members, please just ask a Convener. Meeting notes are available on the wiki, as is a link to the meeting recordings.
Membership:
Acquisitions SIG members consists primarily of acquisitions specialists from early adopters and implementing libraries, led by Dennis Bridges and Ann-Marie Breaux, as co-product owners. This group is open. However, we wish to keep the group focused and agile, and strive to have all areas of acquisitions covered by the position responsibilities of the institutional members.
Members or other members of the FOLIO community are encouraged to approach the Acquisitions SIG Product-Owners or Conveners with questions or discussion topics.
New member onboarding info/resources:
Getting Started with Acquisitions (courtesy of @Molly Driscoll)
Current discussions
Acquisitions Development work covers:
Orders (one-time and ongoing, building, sending, receiving from vendors)
Fund and budget management
Vendor management
Contacts (basics)
EDIFACT orders and invoices
Receiving
Payment and invoice management
Subscription renewals
Subscription check-in
See full list of Acquisitions Interface Fields in Google spreadsheet
Related Discuss Posts: Please review and comment there.
Orders UX Iteration 5: https://discuss.folio.org/t/orders-ux-iteration-5/1472/20
Invoices UX Iteration 3: https://discuss.folio.org/t/invoices-ux-iteration-3/1473/13
Finances UX - Ledger and Dashboard: https://discuss.folio.org/t/finances-ledgers-and-dashboard-ux-iteration-1/1475/5
Finances UX - Funds and Transactions: https://discuss.folio.org/t/finances-funds-transactions-ux-iterations-5/1474/2
Vendor UX Iteration 1: https://discuss.folio.org/t/vendors-ux-iteration-1/1225/21
Updated Stacks Acquisitions Documentation (ERDs, Data Flow Diagrams): https://discuss.folio.org/t/updated-acquisitions-documentation/1217
Also posted at: Acquisitions Documentation
Special Acq/RM Issues during the Fiscal/Academic/Calendar Year: https://discuss.folio.org/t/special-acquisitions-rm-issues-during-the-academic-year/1170
Acquisitions Reports: https://discuss.folio.org/t/acquisitions-reports-description-and-examples-wanted/1262
Architecture Documents
- Serials Management module
- Acquisitions Credits Module (Deprecated)
- Acquisitions Finance Module
- Acquisitions Invoice Module
- Acquisitions Orders Module
- Acquisitions Organization Module
- Acquisitions Receiving Module
- Acquisitions Data Migration
- Acquisitions SIG meeting structure improvement
- Acquisitions SIG subgroups
- File lists
- FYRO warning/error/failed/success messages
- Prioritizing Acq SIG Topics
- Acquisitions/Resource Management implementers
- Agenda and Meeting Notes
- Requirements analysis
- Serials Data Alignment Small group
- Use cases for cross-app receiving workflows
- Use cases for managing donors
- User Acceptance Testing
- WOLFcon
- Log for more specifics needed for on-screen messages/text seen in Acquisitions Apps
- Acquisitions Integrations Discussion Group
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About Us
The Acquisitions SIG works with developers to define essential functions for acquiring and managing all types of materials: fund structures, orders, receiving, payment, claims, maintenance, usage and other statistics, other possible evaluation tools, and reporting. The SIG will consider options to show relationships between resources, and mechanisms and workflows needed to support these functions. The SIG will also need to evaluate the potential for applications supporting selection, decision-making, and analysis with the aim of ensuring that current work does not limit future innovation. The Acquisitions SIG advises developers on the coordination needed between its operations and other functions, such as metadata management and electronic resource management. It coordinates closely with Metadata Management and ERM SIGs. It also advises developers on the interactions needed between libraries, vendors, and other parties necessary for successful resource management.
Communication Channels
Slack channel #folio-acquisitions-sig
Wiki space (this page)
See FOLIO Communication Spaces for more details about the project's communication channels.
Meetings
The Acquisitions Group Meets via Zoom every Tuesday 1-2pm Eastern U.S. time (see time in your timezone) and every other Friday 9-10am Eastern U.S. time (see time in your timezone). For more details, see the Acq SIG Meetings and Notes.
SIG Convener
For more information about the Acquisitions SIG, contact the ACQ-SIG convener @Dung-Lan Chen or co-convener @Heather McMillan