Five College FOLIO Project
FOLIO is a collaboration of libraries, developers and vendors building an open source library services platform. It supports traditional resource management functionality and can be extended into other institutional areas.
There are a number of resources that you can access in the links below. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Bischoff, FOLIO Implementation Project Manager.
- Project Timeline (Interactive chart from Wrike)
- Jira Go Live Dashboard for Five Colleges
- Provide anonymous feedback
- FOLIO Launch: Slides and Feedback Form
Here you can find information about the FOLIO Implementation Team.
- FIT Documents
- Working groups (Five Colleges committees information, updated sporatically)
- Presentation About Participation Expectations & Decision-making (UMass All-Staff Meeting on November 27, 2018)
Project Manager
Steve Bischof, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Implementation Coordinator
Anya Arnold, EBSCO Information Services
Team Members
Kathleen Berry, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rob O'Connell, Smith College
Janet Ewing, Mount Holyoke College
Jen Bolmarcich, Hampshire College
Susan Kimball, Amherst College
Aaron Neslin, Five Colleges
Here you can find resources for the FOLIO Project:
- Wrike Project Management Tool
- Request a Wrike account here.
- Five Colleges Slack Channel
- Five College Libraries FOLIO Implementation Blog
- Exploring FOLIO webinars: Join us every Thursday at 2pm
- Anya Arnold and Patty Wanniger (our Ebsco support team) will host “Exploring FOLIO” sessions for EBSCO Beta clients. These sessions will have a specific topic, however the conversation should be participant-led and can be off topic depending on questions and comments posed. View past recorded sessions and upcoming topics.
Here you can find information about the FOLIO community:
- FOLIO Wiki
- FOLIO Community Slack Workspace (sign up)
- FOLIO Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
- FOLIO Testrail (This is where we bugtest FOLIO. Contact a FIT member if you would like to get involved.)
Here you can find information about the FOLIO Community demo site:
Here you can find information about the Five Colleges FOLIO instance (Request login credentials from a FIT member.)
Five College Folio implementation news has moved to a blog format.