SWAN Board Members,

If any of you are planning on attending ALA Mid-Winter, this seminar might be interesting to attend. Rob McGee (RMG) was the ILS search consultant SWAN utilized. Description below my signature line.

FOLIO is the new open source ILS platform that is being spearheaded by EBSCO.

Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron@swanlibraries.net • (630)326-7022

*Please note my new email address and phone number*
*Our new business address as of December 12, 2016*

SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net • catalog.swanlibraries.net

NEWS RELEASE: RMG Consultants, Inc., 15 January 2017, Chicago

RMG’s 2017 ALA/Midwinter Presidents' Seminar: The View from the Top

Friday January 20, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Atlanta, Georgia World Congress Center GWCC A312

Will FOLIO inspire a new era of collaboration and interoperability among library industry systems, services, and customers — and with publishers?

Will FOLIO’s Open Source Applications Architecture and Components be used in product development with other library services platforms?

• Will FOLIO be adapted and developed by library industry companies as well as libraries?

• Would leveraging FOLIO free company resources for meaningful innovation in new library services?

These questions and topics are posed for RMG’s Annual Presidents’ Seminar

at which library industry company leaders are asked to consider possibilities perhaps invited by FOLIO.

Will FOLIO’s Open Source Applications Architecture Inspire a Catch-Up and Go-Ahead, Across-the-Library-Industry Automation Era with Improved Interoperability among Companies, Systems, and Services; Easy, Simple, and Satisfying Library User Experiences with Content Discovery and Delivery; and New Solutions, Services, and Apps from Libraries, Consortia, Open Library Communities, Companies, and Entrepreneurs?

Will Diverse, Collaborating, and Competing Library Communities and Companies Leverage a Common Open Source Microservices-Driven Core/Platform (think Apache Software Foundation, Linux, Android, App Stores) to the Advantage of All?

Can the Library Industry create a Global Library EcoSystem of Services and Software to benefit Library Users Worldwide?

The following panelists will be asked to lead-off with brief explanations (2-to-3 minutes each) of the basics:

Neil Block What is FOLIO — and the roles of EBSCO and Index Data?

Michael Winkler What are the Open Library Foundation & Open Library Environment?

Todd Carpenter What is NISO - and will FOLIO spur new standards?

Sebastian Hammer What's library-industry-new in FOLIO’s technology concepts?

RMG Library Industry Challenge (from the 2014 RMG Seminar)

Vision Statements for easy, simple, and satisfying user experiences to find and use licensed and open content.

The Library provides its readers, viewers, listeners, gamers, and tactile users with the content they want in the languages and formats they prefer: print, electronic, audio, multimedia, interactive, tactile.

1. Single-search discovery of relevant content in all formats (print, electronic, audio, multimedia, interactive, tactile) and languages to granular levels, e.g. article - chapter - quotation - verse - image
1.1 Library-owned, licensed, rented, and borrowed content
1.2 State-library provided databases and other e-resources
1.3 Government documents
1.4 Open e-content from curated sources, including
• Curated web sites • Digital Public Library of America • Internet Archive • Project Gutenberg • Others
1.5 Commercially provided content available through pay-on-demand arrangements between suppliers and libraries for purchase and rental of
• e- and p- books available through arrangements for Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) and Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA)
• Articles and chapters available through PDA/DDA
2. Fulfillment of Customer’s one-click request to
2.1 Hold p- and other physical items for pick-up at the Library, or delivery
2.2 Download e-content to customer’s designated devices
• Including Library owned and rented content acquired and delivered on demand (PDA/DDA)
2.3 Schedule reading, viewing, listening, and customer support sessions with needed devices, facilities, and staff at the Library
2.4 Request fulfillment through Interlibrary Loan
3. Options for Customers’ demand-purchase/rental and download/delivery of e- and p- resources not otherwise available from the Library
4. Customer relations management and services that maintain profiles and alert users about new resources, library events and programs, etc.; and seamlessly manage customers’ use, borrowing, purchase, and rental of content.