Managing donor information
There are some folio libraries that are managing donors in different ways. Some are using organization app to manage donor info. Prompted idea to maybe use an organization record to capture donor information.
Have the ability to indicate that you've created a an organization record that is a donor.
Explored using organization type. Challenge is 'type' is defined by each individual library so isn't a good way for driving logic in folio.
Maybe have a box in organization you can check if a vendor or donor.
This would mean making some changes to how we capture donor information.
Ann Crowley 12:14 PM
Can the Vendor and Donor box be checked at the same time?
Dennis: Need to discuss if the name of the organization appear or a code?
Dennis: We would allow donors to be associated with particular funds. You can attribute specific donors to specific fund records. So when that fund is applied, we supply the donor information.
Dennis: You can apply more than one fund, and have more than one donor identified in the donor field.
Dennis: I think it was described that the money could be partially donations and partially from funds.
Lisa Smith - Mich State 12:23 PM
I like the idea of having a donor tied to a fund, and it auto-filling the donor in the POL. Could bulk edit get the info into inventory as an electronic bookplate, by pulling the order donor field?
Dennis: This will also make is easier to filter orders by donor.
Kristin: Can we apply this kind of controlled vocabulary in the organization record to be able to apply on that same controlled vocabulary for the electronic bookplate, if items a directly a gift we may not have a po for them. We apply electronic book plates to e books. So that ends up at the holdings level because there is not an item record. There is an electronic bookplate feild in the holdings record.
Sara: At 5 colleges we have locally added a term called gift note in the inventory item record.
Dennis: Is it a free text field?
Sara: You put in the field as the text, so you have a dropdown for the note type.
Dung-Lan: Is there a field in the pol that you can enter information that will get pulled into Inventory?
Sara: There is a receiving note when we are receiving at the piece level and the information shows up in the holdings record at the very bottom.
Dennis: Are we saying the that the donor code is not enough information? Does there need to be additional verbiage after that code?
Kristin: We add that additional verbiage outside of folio right now. In vufind that code gets converted to the electronic bookplate and then to the fuller note.
Dennis: Potential homework? Can you (the group) post in slack how many donors you are actively managing. The National Library of Australia has over 75,000 organization records, that can be attributed to they donors as organizations.
Kristin: It looks like we have about 1000, but am not sure how many of these are active.
Dennis: Okay - will others please add their information in slack? Even if it's later and you are watching the recording.. go ahead and add the information.
Sara: Would like more automation for workflows to pass work on to the next step of a process.