2020-03-03 Meeting notes

2020-03-03 Meeting notes

Date

Mar 3, 2020

Attendees

  • @Karen Newbery

  • @Paula Sullenger

  • @Kelly Drake

  • @Anya

  • @Monica Arnold

  • @Kristen Wilson

  • @Martina Schildt

  • @Brooks Travis

  • @Siska

  • @Debra Howell

  • @Chulin Meng

  • @patty.wanninger

  • @egerman

  • @Peter Murray

  • @Tod Olson

  • Several guests from the RM SIG for the Acquisitions demo

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Announcements: Chicago is looking at Circ-only implementation, maybe for Round III.  Tod will start on a requirements list.

 

 

40 min

Settings, reference data and finance show and tell, focused on each library (Simmons, Lehigh, Missouri St, Chalmers) for 10 minutes each

questions and discussion

Kelly Drake

  • Chalmers doesn't use finance at all in FOLIO

  • Lehigh has tested creating an order but still not sure what's working and what isn't, MSU also hasn't gotten very far

  • Kristen talked about the Finance settings for Simmons (based on Edelweiss):

    • using default list

    • using only two fund types (monographs & subscriptions)

    • using a fund spreadsheet now to figure out how their FOLIO fund structure should look (34 funds)

    • set up groups for tracking - these are created by each institution.  Groups don't have funds but show summaries of their associated funds

    • noting which funds can allow transfers to and from - they tested a transfer and it worked

    • won't be using vouchers so not setting up any external account info

  • Nobody else has tested these much

  • Questions about how encumbrances will work, more dev work on this expected in Fameflower & Goldenrod

  • Fund: lives over time over multiple fiscal years; budget is for a single FY

  • A feature that might be useful from some libraries (Simmons & MSU) would be to encumber against future budgets - due to their university accounting requirements

  • Funds/Allocations: everything will be in the default currency your institution selects (also controls fines & fees)

  • Simmons monograph order process: 

    • Preferred process is to create PO with bib stub, overlay with full MARC later (can't do that now)

    • Create PO; required fields (vendor, order type, acq unit)

    • Then create PO line, Simmons will put in inventory record in at time of order

    • Can create templates with pre-populated fields

    • Bill To/Ship To: not so important if vendor order imported but needed if actually sending out the order

    • Re-encumber: relates to ongoing orders

    • "Manual" - nobody sure what that means (ask Dennis next week)

    • Product ID: ISBN, etc.  OCLC# wouldn't go here because it's a record number

    • Updates & overlays will be worked on in Goldenrod

 

We'll look at orders more in-depth next week

 

 

 

 

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