Abstract
FOLIO is a future-oriented library service platform. Enlightened by the results of the 2021 International Survey of Library Automation, the author shared thoughts on how FOLIO meets librarians’ expectations, why it’s a good time to get involved in the FOLIO project and what challenges FOLIO is facing at the current development stage.
Highlights
FOLIO stands for the Future of Libraries is Open and is a future-oriented library service platform
Enlightened by the results of the 2021 International Survey of Library Automation, the author shared thoughts on how FOLIO meets librarians’ expectations, why it is time to get involved in the FOLIO project and what challenges FOLIO is facing at the current development stage
The comments collected from the 2021 Survey of Library Automation that was conducted by Marshall Breeding, the well-known library technologist and analyst, show that librarians and system administrators have the following concerns/complaints about their legacy systems and/or the new systems they are moving or have moved to (Breeding, 2021):
Summary
FOLIO stands for “the future of libraries is open.” It is a library services platform, a software development project and a community:. FOLIO stands for “the future of libraries is open.” It is a library services platform, a software development project and a community:. ● As a software development project, FOLIO started in 2016 by the initial partners - EBSCO Information Services, Open Library Environment (OLE) and Index Data. It is a single-member limited liability company (SMLLC), a subsidiary of the non-profit organization - Open Library Foundation (OLF). The project moves forward along the roadmap and under careful capacity planning, which is based on multiple factors, such as feature rankings, feature/bug/tech debt balances, etc It uses some common practices and utilities of software lifecycle, such as CI/CD pipeline, automated test suites, standards around tooling, code coverage expectations, deployment patterns, and established environments. The launch of membership mechanism and the change of its governance model in 2021 substantially turned FOLIO to an open and inclusive community that is managed and built by all the member institutions, whether libraries or companies, and regardless of their sizes, locations and budgets
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