Folio Report

Presenter: Brandon Cole, Marmot Library Network

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Session: Thursday, October 3rd at 3 p.m.

Room: Mesa & Monument Rooms

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What is FOLIO?

• Open Source ILS
• Developed by a community of Libraries
• Investment from EBSCO
• Hosted by Open Library Foundation
• Modular
• Extensible

Is Marmot replacing Sierra with FOLIO?

• The short answer
• NO
• The middle sized answer
• FOLIO has the potential to shake up the ILS market
• Marmot wants to be informed about FOLIO
• Understand FOLIO enough to answer questions
• If FOLIO is a viable replacement or alternative to Sierra a thoughtful migration would be imperative

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What role is Marmot taking with FOLIO?

• Marmot is taking a proactive role
• Participation in relevant Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Consortia SIG
• Public SIG
• Cataloging SIG
• Staying informed about developments
• Setting up a test instance

Demo of current stable release

• Test will be on the public FOLIO sandbox
• Marmot test instance is not yet available
• No Marmot information available in the test system
• No special configuration for Marmot settings