In June 2016, the FOLIO project – a community collaboration to develop an open source library services platform – was announced to the library community. The project, now well underway, has an engaged and growing community of librarians, developers and commercial entities. Design and development of the platform has progressed at a steady rate. And, most importantly, the platform fundamentals that have been established through a network of participants are focused on delivering architecture for evolution and growth. In this presentation participants will learn about FOLIO, iFOLIO project and community, as well as its current status. The presenters will discuss the project underpinnings that support community collaboration and innovation. They will touch upon how FOLIO eliminates issues around ‘legacy’ software through a new technology approach that is based on a microservices architecture, which ensures that the platform will be future-proof and sustainable.In addition, the presenters will look at platform approaches to resource management and access, as well as user experience and user interface design. Finally, the presenters will address the industry shift in vendor-library collaboration that FOLIO addresses through the creation of a true platform built for community participation – vendors and libraries alike.
Christopher Holly is a Director of SaaS Innovation at EBSCO and has spent the majority of his library career working with ILS/LSP's. Prior to joining EBSCO, Christopher created a new strategic direction and plan for the Cooperative Computer Services (CCS) library consortium in Illinois... Read More →
FOLIO, FOLIO migration, FOLIO Product Council, VuFind discovery layer, ILL and Acquisitions service models and workflows, Library Services in general and Leadership in Libraries
Scholarly publishing is moving beyond the physical monograph and journal. In today's changing academic publishing models, digital monographs, journals, digital projects, and OER materials are all now part of the projects being produced creating even more roles and opportunities for libraries. In this session, Macalester College librarians will break down their current scholarly publishing program and share how it's shaped by being at a small liberal arts college with limited staff and resources. In each of our publishing areas (digital monographs, journals, digital projects, and OER materials) we'll examine our current philosophy, tools being used, and highlight some of our existing projects.
Tech is alive and well in the suburbs, at least at the Dakota County Library's Wescott branch in Eagan, in the Twin Cities south metro. From less expensive or free ideas for programming and promotion to the more expensive iLAB makerspace, the Wescott Library has experimented with dozens of programs that keeps all ages creatively engaged and coming back for more! Many ideas will be presented to spark your imagination: from light painting to 3D printing; creating fabric digitally to preserving digital memories; and engaging with augmented and virtual reality. Suggestions for connecting with your community will be included to help you offer more on a limited budget.
Using open source software with minimal overhead, our small college Library is able to publish open textbooks, literary journals, historical reprints, and community authored works in multiple formats. Our Open SUNY Textbooks initiative evolved from one small college library, three part-time staff, very little funding, an unwieldy website platform, no digitized book production, no statistics, no author participation, and many unanswered questions like, “What are open textbooks and why should we care?” to: an open educational service with multiple partner colleges across the SUNY (State University of New York) system, eager authors, an executive director, an advisory board, a "fully operational publishing battlestation," and nearly 250,000 downloads of our textbooks to date.
Adapters, cameras, laptops and more! A scrumptious equipment collection is just as rewarding as a good ol’ bake off! Bethel University Library’s equipment has grown from a few laptops to a fully comprehensive selection for our students, faculty, and staff on campus.
In this session you will learn how to add equipment from scratch with a recipe that includes purchasing, cataloging, developing policies, and training library staff in consistent procedures for handling checkout and checkins. You will walk away with practical steps for growing your collection and a brutally honest understanding of the challenges and benefits of having a highly circulated, non-traditional collection. You will also hear from our Library Student Worker “star bakers” as they share their hands-on experiences with the established policies and procedures.
There’s something strange in the neighborhood with Bowker reporting 727,000 U.S. self-published ISBN’s registered in 2015. Who ya gonna call? The Minnesota Library Publishing Project! Come connect with an active community of Minnesota academic and public libraries leading the country in managing the self-publishing explosion; learn the in-and-outs of Pressbooks and how to get the ebooks created in your community into libraries throughout Minnesota using the MN Writes/ MN Reads online collection. Not afraid of no self-publishing, come join the bookbusting team as we conquer self-publishing's ghouls and goblins.
Valerie Horton is the Director of Minitex, a three-state library network. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Colorado Library Consortium, Library Director for Colorado Mesa University, Head of Systems at NMSU, and a Systems Librarian at Brown University. She received an ALA... Read More →
Project Manager, Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA)
McKennan is a Project Manager at the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA), where she oversees projects related to arts programming, jobs and small business initiatives, and world language acquisitions. She manages MELSA’s MN Writes MN Reads project. Prior to MELSA, Andrea... Read More →
Director, Course Materials Services, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Shane Nackerud has worked at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities since 1998, first as the Libraries webmaster, then as the Director of Web Development, and currently as Interim Director of Content Services. In his current position Shane is working on finding new ways of integrating... Read More →
Attendees become patrons in a simulated library program environment during this interactive, hands-on session. Participants will learn about program sequencing, logic puzzles, computational thinking activities, and ways to use Mozilla’s free online code editor, Thimble. The session will be based on the Rhode Coders curriculum designed by Providence Public Library’s (PPL) Technology Instructor. PPL staff will facilitate the workshop, discuss their program experience, and answer questions about implementation challenges and successes.
Rhode Coders was designed to remove traditional barriers for people interested in coding. To eliminate the barrier of fear, a club/family member atmosphere was created in a safe, supportive environment. Lack of confidence is tackled by infusing fun, using gamification techniques and providing various activities that cater to different learning styles to explore a particular skill. Lastly, the barrier of cost is eliminated by providing instruction for free.
Participants should bring their laptops loaded with the Chrome browser to get the full experience of the session. The primary coding language used in this session will be CSS. Some previous coding experience is useful but not required.
