2024-03-12 FOLIO Implementers Meeting Notes

04:05

Small Talk

• Nerdy Obsidian Talk: multiple vs single vaults, and obsidian publish

  • a digression on a 3D printed R2D2?!?!

09:17

WOLFcon 2024 Plans

• A “FOLIO Bootcamp” (tentative name) is being planned for the day before WOLFcon sessions begin. The idea is to provide a day-long bootcamp for new and implementing libraries to jumpstart their understanding of FOLIO.

• Our goal in this meeting is to discuss what we think would be useful in such a workshop and determine if there are other sessions we might want to submit.

10:07

FOLIO Bootcamp Plans

• Thomas asks what types of sessions would be useful in a bootcamp. Classics such as Circulation Rules or Data Import?

  • Tara suggests a big picture “how it all fits together” session to explain FOLIO to new users.

  • Thomas suggest an overview of what FOLIO is and how it differs from other library systems.

  • Alexis asks who the audience is? Is this for people who have already decided to implement, or prospective FOLIO users?

    • Thomas notes that this is still up in the air, but will be discussed as part of the planning with Deborah (Cornell). In all likelihood, the audience will be mixed.

• Another question: should there be one track or multiple tracks for people to pick and choose?

  • The benefit of multiple tracks is that it better accommodates multiple audiences with a variety of backgrounds. The benefit of a single track is that it provides a common basis for all users.

13:51

Possible Session: Law

• Lauren is at the Law Library at CU Boulder, which is sharing a tenant with CU Boulder’s main campus. Many universities have Law, Medical, Music, etc. branch libraries that operate independently sharing a tenant with a “main” library. These specialized libraries have practices, policies, and needs that differ from the “main” library. Lauren asks if there would be interest in a session for libraries that are “the little fish in the big sea” (or, even more beautifully put: “the small poppy in the opium field”).

  • Everyone agrees this is a great idea. While there are loose groups for Law Libraries and Small Libraries in the FOLIO community, this “small poppy” status is a common but complex situation that would be of general interest.

  • We think this would be a great session for the general conference.

19:13

More FOLIO Bootcamp plans

• Thomas asks: how about Data Migration? Would that make sense as part of Bootcamp, or maybe as a stand-alone session?

• Cody asks: “Would topics geared towards developers be out of scope? Things like a demo on the development process for new modules, Postman + Folio APIs, CQL queries, etc?” Buddy chimes in to note that there’s interest in a session specifically on using the APIs.

  • We wonder if a basic introduction to APIs would make sense for the bootcamp, and an “intermediate APIs” session might be submitted as a normal session.

• Buddy notes that Data Export and Data Import techniques are mandatory for any operating library to do bulk changes. This should likely be covered.

• Buddy also highlights Acquisitions apps as of high interest. Acquisitions is not intuitive for most users and would be a valuable part of a bootcamp.

24:15

Wait a second, who’s even going to WOLFcon?

• Most people are mostly sure they’re going, but won’t have full confirmation until after the sessions are due because of how budgets work.

25:17

Any other session ideas?

• Tara suggests “library show and tell”--this was done in Hamburg and it was kind of fun. It fits well with Implementers.

• Thomas wonders if there would be an interest in a session on fee/fine exports. Cornell had to write a custom script to do virtual transfers, and could present on this.

28:34

The end!

• If you have any other ideas, please post them in slack!