Topic Calendar and Idea Bank - 2024
- Tara Barnett
- Thomas Trutt
- Lynne Fors
Owned by Tara Barnett
2024 Topic Calendar (Subject to Change)
| Date | Topic | Notes | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-02 | Holiday Break | ||
| What do we want to discuss in 2024? What are the groups goals? | Thomas | ||
| 2024-01-16 | CANCELD | ||
| 2024-01-23 | Questions for Vince and Craig on the FOLIO re-architecture | Thomas | |
| 2024-01-30 | Courses app. Gaps, bugs, etc. | Thomas | |
| 2024-02-06 | |||
| 2024-02-13 | Owen Stephens will join us and give the group an overview of the Serials app's progress. | Thomas | |
| 2024-02-20 | |||
| 2024-02-27 | How do different libraries maintain their OCLC holdings and LHR. Has anyone automated the process and if so how. Open discussion | Thomas | |
| 2024-03-05 | Bookings feature; What are peoples needs, what are they doing now. | Thomas | |
| 2024-03-12 | WolfCON 2024 - Monday the 23rd FOLIO Academy"–a training day for newcomers on FOLIO. If that happens, what should be the balance between nuts-and-bolts using FOLIO and being part of the community (purposed name) | Thomas | |
| 2024-03-19 | Ideas for WolfCon 2024 - Part 2; Upgrades to Poppy / CSP-2; Bugfest | Thomas | |
| 2024-03-26 | Remote storage module; Ticket: MODRS-121 - Getting issue details... STATUS Dematic and Ciasoft Connectors | Thomas | |
| 2024-04-02 | BugFest testing - Ended short due to ENV issues. | Thomas | |
| 2024-04-09 | CANCELED | ||
| 2024-04-16 | CANCELED | ||
| 2024-04-23 | Review Architectural PoC Preview prior to tomorrow's TC meeting | Thomas | |
| 2024-04-30 | Discussion of Architectural PoC Preview meeting | Thomas | |
| 2024-05-7 | CANCELED | Thomas | |
| 2024-05-14 | CANCELED | Thomas | |
| 2024-05-21 | CANCELED | Thomas | |
| 2024-05-28 | Open discussion; New feature in Q, bug fixes etc. | ||
| 2024-06-4 | Intro To postman | Thomas | |
| 2024-06-18 | How To Make A Video Tutorial | Thomas | |
| 2024-07-2 | Wolfcon - Working group and upgrade panel discussions | ||
| 2024-07-16 | CANCELED: due to power issues. | ||
| 2024-07-30 | WolfCon part 2 (if needed); What should be the focus of this group? What is our direction? | Thomas | |
| 2024-08-13 | Implemented libraries data; Re-do table and detail sheets for WolfCon | Thomas | |
| 2024-08-27 | Wolfcon Prep | Thomas | |
| 2024-09-10 | Wolfcon Presentation practice | ||
| 2024-09-24 | WolfCon 2024 | ||
| 2024-10-8 | Wolfcon Wrapup | ||
| 2024-10-22 | the 5 stages of implementation (upgrades) and how people deal with them. | ||
| 2024-10-29 | |||
| 2024-11-5 | |||
| 2024-11-12 | |||
| 2024-11-19 | |||
| 2024-11-26 | Bugfest Ramsons Session | ||
| 2024-12-3 | FOLIO Inventory/Shelf-Checking Strategies | ||
| 2024-12-10 | |||
| 2024-12-17 | |||
| 2024-12-24 | Holiday Break | ||
| 2024-12-31 | |||
Topic Idea Bank
| Topic | Origin | Status | Notes | Interested Parties | Groups to invite | Scheduled? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Meeting | Julie Bickle wants to discuss documentation not for the project but for libraries. Julie plans to take the lead on this discussion. | Julie Bickle | |||
| Circulation Rules | A perennial topic for implementing libraries | Tara | RA | |||
| Data Import | Meeting | A perennial topic for implementing libraries | Everyone | Data Import Slack | ||
| Scripting | How do you make a basic python script? | |||||
| Tags in FOLIO | ||||||
| How To Make A Video Tutorial | ||||||
| Conference "Science Fair" | Meeting | Have folks deliver their EBSCO Users Group presentations in low-key or mini-mode. Sometime in June? | Debra | |||
Loading Users | Meeting | Vivian | ||||
| Fiscal Year Rollover | Meeting | Tod, Cornell | ||||
| Missing Processes | Meeting | Tara | ||||
| EBSCO User Group Presentations | A "Science Fair" with mini presentations from EBSCO User Group? (TENTATIVE)–will need help | |||||
| Application and platform formalization | DONE | 2024-01-23 | ||||
| Conducting shelf inventory using FOLIO | This is a core activity that my institution wants to do once our collections are returned to our library post-renovation (hopefully in 2025). We aren't sure how to conduct an inventory using FOLIO and want to know if anyone else is planning or has done inventory using FOLIO. If no one has, what would be needed to do this important activity with FOLIO? | Lynne Fors (Wellesley) | Metadata Management, Resource Access | |||
| Serials | Meeting | DONE | Current state of the serials app; progress report | 2024-02-13 | ||
| Postman - An Introduction | Meeting | |||||
| Comparison of API calling methods | Meeting | A Comparison of Postman, Insomnia and other API tools. | ||||
| Scheduled reports | Meeting | How are other libraries handling, if at all scheduled reports | ||||
| Bound withs | Meeting | Current state and how people are using this new feature | ||||
| ERM and Acquisitions | Meeting | How other libraries are using theses apps | ||||
| Bookings feature | Meeting | MEET FOLLOWUP | Refinement and discussion of the booking feature request | |||
| Courses | Meeting | MEET FOLLOWUP | Refinement and gaps discussion of the courses app | 2024-01-30 | ||
| Data Import | Meeting | Current state, future plans, how people are using the app / issues they are seeing |
Amorphous Proto-Topics To Develop
| Topic | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|
Conversation Starter Questions
- How does your library integrate your archival collection with FOLIO, if at all?
- What is the best way to use custom fields?
Incomplete Tasks To Resolve (2023)
Task report
Looking good, no incomplete tasks.