FOLIO Implementation Consultant, Anya Arnold, was visiting this week with many groups at the Five Colleges. Several decisions were made which will impact our FOLIO use going forward. The first of these is the decision to go forward with implementation in June/July with licenses/agreements for continuing electronic resources including the orders accompanying those new resources. This means that e-journals and e-journal packages, ebook packages, and databases will be implemented this summer using the FOLIO modules of Organizations, Agreements, Licenses, and Orders.
Another decision made jointly by FAWG (FOLIO Acquisitions Working Group) and FERM (FOLIO Electronic Resource Management) is that we will always use the same two-letter institutional codes to denote the individual schools in the Five Colleges. These codes will be in CAPS followed by a space in most FOLIO modules. In the Acquisitions module, the prefix will be the two-letter code (no space) followed by numbers. The codes used will be the same ones we are currently using in FOLIO: AC-Amherst, HC-Hampshire, MH-Mt Holyoke, UM-UMass, SC-Smith. We anticipate that this can be used in apps that will not be brought up this summer and are working with members of the other working groups to make sure this method will be used globally in FOLIO.
Please reach out to a member of FAWG, FERM or FIT (FOLIO Implementation Team) if you have any questions about these recent decisions or other general FOLIO concerns/comments. We would love to hear from you!