2017-08-02 - Consortia SIG Notes

Can multiple institutions be included? This would be necessary for consortial models #2-#4.

• Would be good to flesh this out
• Would it work if consortia = Institution?
  • might not need to indicate consortia; consortia could be equal to the shared system/instance/tenant
• use case - Kirstin: GBV - Hanover hosts system for all libraries; libraries are completely independent
  • some libraries with different systems but shared user data
  • need to be able to circulate directly from another library
  • might be need to "tag" subsets of libraries within a consortia (e.g. these are the academics, etc.)

Borrowing privileges

• • owning library controls privileges
  • is there a use case to have different privileges between home library patrons and consortia patrons
  • rules would apply to consortia if no consortial borrowing rules are defined
  • options to consider
    • use rules of patrons home library
    • use rules of owning library
    • create completely separate set of rules for consortial borrowers
  • how does a library supporting two schools work?
    • do the two schools get merged into one "institution" or are they two separate "institutions" (and thus separate instances of the location hierarchy)? If they're separate, then how is the single library represented (i.e. would it be duplicated in both hierarchy instances)?
  • shared facility
    • Joint Library Facility
      • example: joint ownership of Nature, etc.
    • does "collection" cover this?
    • how would this get included in statistics - both for collection counts (e.g. ARL stats) and usage?

We need to develop a document of use cases

• • examples - shared facilities, one library supporting two institutions, etc.
  • describe the scenario and then try to fit it within the location hierarchy and non-hierarchy layers/elements, then pose any questions or items that are unclear