Topic Calendar and Idea Bank - 2023
- Thomas Trutt
Owned by Thomas Trutt
2023 Topic Calendar (Subject to Change)
| Date | Topic | Notes | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-17 | |||
| 2023-01-24 | Courses | Tara | |
| 2023-01-31 | Upgrades | Tara | |
| 2023-02-07 | Gallimaufry | A session for random questions and clean up. | Tara |
| 2023-02-14 | Spine Label Printers integration | A session to discuss implemented spine label printer integrations with FOLIO (Spine O Matic, LIBstick, etc) | Tara |
| 2023-02-21 | Getting OCLC Records Into FOLIO | A session on Connexion problems, Record Manager, Single Record Import complications | Tara |
| 2023-02-28 | Catch Up Week! | A session for random questions and clean up | Tara |
| 2023-03-07 | ??? | No agenda | Tara |
| 2023-03-14 | Bugfest Working Day | Tara In Australia! Michelle will be there. | Michelle |
| 2023-03-21 | Cutover Processes | We will discuss libraries' cutover processes from when they went live. | Tara |
| 2023-03-28 | |||
| 2023-04-04 | MARC Authorities | MARC Authorities session (Buddy) | |
| 2023-04-11 | Macros in FOLIO | Macros in FOLIO session (Kathy) | |
| 2023-04-18 | Query Searching | An introduction to query searching | |
| 2023-04-25 | API Clinic | A session on the basics of Postman and APIs | |
| 2023-05-02 | Catch Up Week! | General questions | Tara |
| 2023-05-09 | Roadmap Discussion | "Super Casual Roadmap Discussion" (Jenn) | Jenn |
| 2023-05-16 | Circulation Rules | Circulation Rules | Tara |
| 2023-05-23 | ABLE Bindery | A session on ABLE Bindery (Alissa) | Alissa |
| 2023-05-30 | FYRO | Fiscal Year Rollover | |
| 2023-06-06 | Catch Up Week! | General Questions | |
| 2023-06-13 | Catch Up Week! | General Questions | |
| 2023-06-20 | The Great Directory Project | Establish a project to update the implementers directory, and chat about the purpose of this group. | |
| 2023-06-27 | Library of Congress | Library of Congress (Caitlin Stewart) | Caitlin |
| 2023-07-04 | US HOLIDAY! NO MEETING! | ||
| 2023-07-11 | Jira | Jira and how to search/use it | Julie |
| 2023-07-18 | Loading Users | How do different libraries load users? | Tara |
| 2023-07-25 | General Questions | Tara got stung by a ton of wasps last week, so we'll be having an open agenda day. | |
| 2023-08-01 | Tara is away and we decided to skip! Feel free to hang out though. | ||
| 2023-08-08 | Missing Processes | TENTATIVE | |
| 2023-08-15 | WOLFcon Recon | Let's go over the WOLFcon schedule together and highlight interesting stuff. | Tara |
| 2023-08-22 | WOLFCON! NO MEETING! | Many people will be at WOLFcon so we well skip. | |
| 2023-08-29 | WOLFcon Recap | What we learned at WOLFcon. | |
| 2023-09-05 | Tags in FOLIO | ||
| 2023-09-12 | Actual Cost | How does Actual Cost work TODAY, how WILL it work, and how COULD it work? | |
| 2023-09-19 | Bulk Check In? | See slack | |
| 2023-09-26 | |||
| 2023-10-03 | The Great Directory Project, take 2 | Take a look at the discovery table, and take 2 on the directory project | |
| 2023-10-10 | |||
| 2023-10-17 | Serials | At long last, we will take a session to discuss serials management in FOLIO. | Chuck |
| 2023-10-24 | Serials Vol. 1 Iss. 2 | Our Serials session was so fun, we decided to do a part two! | |
| 2023-10-31 | Bugfest Coworking Session | We will use our October 10th meeting for bugfest coworking | Tara |
| 2023-11-07 | Refresh Token Rotation | We will discuss the changes to tokens. Non-expiring tokens will no longer work in Ramsons. | Kara |
| 2023-11-14 | |||
| 2023-11-21 | Tour de SIGs | What the heck are all the SIGs and channels anyway | Tara |
| 2023-11-28 | Reading Rooms in FOLIO | Lynne | |
| 2023-12-05 | The Australian Library Landscape | Sae Ra | |
| 2023-12-12 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING | |
| 2023-12-19 | Wrap Up! | What did we accomplish this year? | Tara |
| 2023-12-26 | No Meeting | I imagine we're not meeting the day after Christmas. |
Topic Idea Bank
| Topic | Origin | Notes | Interested Parties | Groups to invite | Scheduled? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An introduction to APIs | Various/slack | Many people have asked for a basic introduction to postman/APIs. This has been done before, but there's no harm in having a clinic for newbies. | Tara | Learning APIs | 2023-04-25 |
| An introduction to query searching | Various/slack | Tara | 2023-04-18 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Upgrade Management | Meeting | Ian Walls, Tara Barnett | 2023-01-31 | ||
| Courses: How does it work? | Meeting | We want to use a session to discuss the current state of the courses app and workflows that folks currently use in the app. As of today (2023-01-16) courses does not have a PO and can't move issues forward, so this will be more of a "current state and processes" sharing event. | Ian Walls, Tara Barnett | Courses Slack | 2023-01-24 |
| 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 | |||||
| Serials | Meeting | Chuck asks for a session on Serials | Chuck | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Reading Room Feature | UXPROD-1835 - Getting issue details... STATUS | 2023-11-28 | |||
| Application and platform formalization | |||||
Amorphous Proto-Topics To Develop
| Topic | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Framing Discussions, soft skills... | Tod discussed in a meeting on January 10 | Meeting |
| "Very Short Introductions" | Tara thinks it would be cool to make "Very Short Introductions" for some thorny FOLIO problems. Is this covered by tips and tricks already? | Meeting |
| Implementers' Directory? | Create a survey to fix up the implementers' directory? |
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.