2018-06-20 - Consortia SIG Notes

FOLIO activities at ALA

• Early Adopters Panel
• Tiki and Tacos reception
• more info about both: https://www.folio.org/blog/folio-at-ala-annual-2018/

Consortia Implementation Model subgroup updates 

• recap of last week's discussion

Title/item-level requests discussion - what does your consortium do?

• Discuss post: https://discuss.folio.org/t/how-does-your-library-manage-requests-item-level-requests-versus-title-level-requests/1860/17

• Martina: title-level requests at the library level - queue of requests distributed across all items
  • consortial level: use ILL, not really an ILS title/item request
• Peter: both item and title level are available
• Steve B.: title-level requests; works well in most cases, especially for popular titles
  • item-level requests can be done with staff intervention
• Noah: title-level requests; working well; one issue with multi-volume requests
  • shows up on all libraries request lists; real-time list, which avoids multiple items being sent
  • staff can do item-level requests
• Chris: title-level requests - only places request against items available to be circulated to that patron/library (i.e. wouldn't include non-circulating items)
  • needs to distinguish policies for local patrons vs. consortial patrons
• Noah: is the system aware of item availability?
• Steve B.: Paging requests → first level of priority should be for items available at the home library
• choice of pickup location
  • FOLIO: ability to specify service point for pickup location
  • home library?
    • not entirely necessary for pickup locations; it's better to allow an individual to specify their preferred pickup location (maybe with a home library as a default)
    • probably need some notion of this
    • scenario: many libraries have local delivery rules - e.g. departmental delivery, delivery to satellite locations, etc. (with various degrees of documentation) - that are not managed/facilitated by the ILS; it would be nice to see FOLIO support these local routing rules

Next week

• either recap/further discussion of subgroup presentation and discussion OR another topical discussion