Event: FOLIO Innovation Grants

Time: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 11:00AM Eastern U.S. / 1500 GMT

Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_484DJz_QRUC1Es4JQVMeAg

In 2017 and 2018, EBSCO sponsored FOLIO Innovation Challenge award of between $5,000 and $20,000 to libraries based on the innovative solutions they propose that advance technology for libraries.  Today, libraries are reporting on the grants:

• A reserve waitlist service notifying patrons when a reserve item is available for pick-up (University of Illinois)

• An equipment loan form for circulating digital cameras, audio records, and other electronics (University of Illinois)

• Incorporating a mobile wayfinding app into FOLIO (University of Illinois)

• Creating a driver to connect FOLIO to the VuFind discovery layer (Villanova University)

• Exposing existing databases to the FOLIO Codex Search (Johns Hopkins University)

• A “Lost Item” app for automating tasks for this workflow among various library staff (Lehigh University)

Host: Peter Murray, Index Data

Presenters:

• Andrew Nagy, EBSCO

• Jim Hahn & Nathaniel Ryckman, University of Illinois.

• Dazhi Jiao, Johns Hopkins University

• Michelle Suranofsky, Lehigh University

• Chris Hallberg & Demian Katz, Villanova University

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A recording of this Forum will be made available on the Open Library Foundation Youtube channel.

Peter