2018-07-11 - Consortia SIG Notes

FOLIO updates

• Slack question about resource sharing
  • various types: intraconsortium sharing; external ILL systems; resource sharing framework/platform

ILS or external system?

• FLO - through ILS; affiliate members who walk-in are added to the system and can borrow; for sending/receiving items ILLiad is used
• HBZ - use ILL for institution-to-institution borrowing
  • walk-in users get some privileges; depends on policies of library
• for multi-tenant resource sharing, real time checks for a consortium patron's ability to borrow would be preferable to requiring patron's to be loaded into each tenant

Privileges/restrictions

• FLO - Voyager uses patron groups;
• OhioLink - length of loan material is dependent on patron group
  • media loaning - can borrow if library is also lending their media
• what about blocks?
  • should patrons blocked locally be blocked from resource sharing
  • at a minimum consortium libraries should know about local block; might even be a non-issue to enforce a consortial block as long as there is the ability to override it

Renewals/recalls

• Extensions of loan periods through renewals needs to be closely tied to the ability for an owning library to get the item back quickly