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2026-04-07 Consortia SIG Notes

2026-04-07 Consortia SIG Notes

Meeting Recording

Attendees

@Vivian Gould @Darsi Rueda @Dennis Bridges @Katie Rahman @Bernd Oberknapp @Lloyd Chittenden

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Housekeeping & Announcements

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Consortia questions on FOLIO Census

Add to Census

  • Type of consortium

    • e.g., shared ILS, Cooperative purchasing, Resource sharing, etc

  • how many libraries in the consortium

  • What software do you use for resource sharing?

    • OpenRS, InnReach, Reshare, Other?

  • maybe put the ECS question with the other consortia question, have 3 options

    • FOLIO single-tenant

    • FOLIO ECS

    • non-FOLIO

 

Darsi will get the questions worded and bring back to the group for review at next meeting.

Instead we’ll update the directory

  • contact info

  • plus all questions above

  • Darsi will make a draft

 

 

Discussion on Consortia:

Ongoing discussion about the various types of consortia, how they do business, what their needs are, generally and in the FOLIO environment.

 

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Levels of consortia (completely independent, simple, complex, national)

Possible angle: what are top ten things these consortia do. Use cases e.g., “we’re ordering electronic journals for member libraries” “we’re managing permissions”
- This could help direct feature development

 

Dennis walked through some miro diagrams of different profiles/types of consortia. These were created with a resource sharing focus. Types: National Library, Diverse centralized consortium, Complex Library, Highly centralized consortium (single tenant)

in ECS there is cross-tenant circulation, but lacks some tools you’d expect to have as a consortium of libraries. e.g., if request denied, doesn’t go back in the queue. It functions more like circulation at a single library. (no geographic location choice, etc.)

Feedback included a better way to tell if the system was single or multi tenant; what is meant by “central”

And of course there were some attendees today whose consortium did not fit into any type. This is the hard part about consortia!

FOLIO doesn’t yet handle all of these configurations, but that’s the end goal.

Multi-system model is missing from this.

We can devote our 3rd Tuesday of the month meeting to deeper dives about this diagram and the different models of consortia described. And then the FOLIO features and gaps for each model.

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