2019-11-06 Consortia SIG Meeting Notes

Housekeeping/updates

• WOLFCon
• Central Office summary doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uSj3QgkZt7TLjMOk9Ab78mh8cEJZ56AzDeXqPodYFx0/edit?usp=sharing

ReShare and Central Office reqs

• reqs #1 and #2 are main areas where ReShare could be helpful
  • ReShare will have a "Consortia" app
    • profile view and management features (e.g. member libraries, policies, etc.)
    • routing configuration - tiered/grouped ranking for request routing; specification of lend-to-borrow ratio
    • can perform some tenant management on behalf of library (e.g. suspend loaning due to emergency, etc.)
    • questions? 
      • how would ReShare be hosted and relationship to tenants? ReShare hosted by vendor/consortium
      • merging of FOLIO LSP and ReShare apps for a FOLIO consortium? Seems possible
  • ReShare Directory
    • every library has a profile within the Directory (e.g. consortial memberships, contacts for billing, etc.)
• #3 - working a bit with bibliographic data to harvest records from member libraries; planning to provide a discovery interface
• Q: integration of reshare requests with patrons account info (i.e. status of request, etc.)? A: could be done through APIs
• Q: where are loan policies maintained? A: really two loan policies - (1) consortial loan policy, (2) local loan policy that may shorten consortially-set loan period; initially only items that libraries want to share should be added to the shared index

Wrap-up/planning

• November meetings - hold/cancel?

Lots to discuss so there will be a meeting on 11/13 -

• continue discussion of Central Office functionality
• decision on WOLFcon meeting (David will send a poll in advance to assess interest in attending)

No meeting on 11/27