2023-01-24 FOLIO Implementers Meeting Notes

Date

24 Jan 2023 

Recording

TK

Attendees

TK

Recommended Resources and Pre-Reads

• FOLIO Docs: https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/courses/courses/
• Courses Slack: https://folio-project.slack.com/archives/C9AFFJMM0
• Videos:
  • How to add an item to Course Reserves (Kiwi)
  • How to create a Course for Course Reserves (Kiwi)
  • How to search in Courses
• Guides:
  
  • Cornell Access Services Training Manual

Agenda

• Housekeeping
  • Welcome newcomers and guests, and hello to the future! If you are watching this in the distant future 🚀, please remember that FOLIO changes quickly and you should check for updated information.
  • Since last we met...
    • Reminder: https://librarytechnology.org/perceptions/2022/invite/
  • Incomplete Actions
  • Future Sessions
    • Upgrades–please collect questions on slack or on the agenda for next week.
• COURSES
  • A quick demo by Tara
  • Discussion Questions
    • What is the workflow like at the beginning of the semester (when presumably the volume of reserves requests is highest)?  How tedious/ergonomic is it?  Has anyone made tools to help alleviate any pain points with working with large numbers of reserves? (IAN)
    • What differences are there in the workflow for professors' personal copies or other materials the library manages, but that are not part of the collection? (IAN)
    • How are students discovering course reserves?  Is it integrated into your discovery layer, or through a separate interface? (IAN)
    • Are electronic reserves being handled in FOLIO, or in another system like Ares? If there are two systems, are they being presented to students as separate or merged interfaces? (IAN)
    • What kind of statistics do you need about course reserves usage, and how are you getting them? (IAN)
    • What sort of clean-up is done on previous semesters' data?  Do old reserve records stick around forever, or are they pruned after X semesters?  What about terms? (IAN)
    • If you could change 3 things about the course reserves app with the wave of a magic wand, what would they be? (IAN)
    • Do you use locations, loan types, or both? (TARA)
    • <<Add Questions Here>>
• Closing Questions
  • Do we want to schedule a second courses session to continue this discussion?
  • How do we want to share the information we learned today? Create an "implementers guide" to Courses? Update the tips and tricks page?

Notes

Action Items