2023-09-05 - Consortia SIG Notes

Entire session

WOLFcon 2023

All attendees

• General impressions

  • Impressed by enthusiasm of attendees

  • Good mix of technical sessions and real world practice presentations

  • Good opportunity to meet people in-person

  • For those who attended virtually, there were some technical issues that made it difficult to hear or understand the presentations

  • Lots of interest in watching presentations that attendees were unable to see first-hand

    • Raw footage (individual presentations not yet available on YouTube) 

• ECS (Enhanced Consortial Support) session

  • Session discussed mod-consortia app as well as shared cataloging

  • Concerns about having to do a separate upgrade for all tenants

    • Is this something the Consortia SIG can advocate for changing?  

    • This particular functionality resides with the SysOps team

  • Planned functionality considered when a consortium is looking to implement

  • General discussion about FOLIO as a platform 

• Lists app

  • Lots of positive interest; good for task management

  • Of interest to GALILEO and how they might be able to 'push' lists to individual libraries

  • Interest in how it can be used for consortial needs

    • Future Agenda item

• OpenRS

  • Provides desired DCB functionality

  • Ongoing questions : 

    • What is the end goal for OpenRS?

    • Will it support all ILS?

    • What is the roadmap?

  • Original goal is to support MOBIUS by replacing functionality provided by INN-Reach

  • Long-term goal is to connect all ILS

  • EBSCO is in the final stages of certifying the INN-Reach app with FOLIO; hoping to have it complete soon

• Dashboard app

  • Interest in how to integrate the dashboard and lists apps

  • Looking forward to the functionality and how it can improve workflow management seen in other ILS

• Authority control

  • The shared cataloging options of ECS includes shared authority records

  • Still a work-in-progress