Event:             FOLIO Innovation Grants

Time:              Wednesday, Oct 31, 2018 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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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 proposed that advance technology for libraries. Today, libraries are reporting on the grants:

- A reserve wait list 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)

Panelist:
- Andrew Nagy, EBSCO
- Jim Hahn and Nathaniel Ryckman, University of Illinois
- Dazhi Jiao, Johns Hopkins University
- Michelle Suranofsky, Lehigh University
- Chris Hallberg and Demian Katz, Villanova University

Host: Peter Murray, Index Data

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The Open Library Community Forum is sponsored by OLE (Open Library Environment) and is governed by the OLE Code of Conduct.

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

 Thank you,

    Sharon Wiles-Young

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Sharon Wiles-Young

Director of Library Access Services

Linderman Library

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA 18015

610-758-3046