2019-11-06 Consortia SIG Meeting Notes

5min

Housekeeping/updates

• WOLFCon

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

All

WOLFcon - meeting proposals are due 11/18; maybe discuss this next week

45min 

ReShare review and implications for FOLIO cross-tenant resource sharing 

All

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

10min

Wrap-up/planning

• November meetings - hold/cancel?

All

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