FOLIO's location tree has four branches:
- Institutions
- Campuses
- Libraries
- Locations
- Libraries
- Campuses (loccamps)
- Libraries (loclibs)
- Locations (loctions)
- Libraries (loclibs)
- Campuses
Each requires a dbId from the table above (a location requires an Id from all three of the other db tables.) Each location (whether or not it is associated with the same institutions, campuses, or libraries) must be unique. This means that in all of the libraries across our several campuses spanning our many institutions only one may have a location named "Reference" or "Reading Room". <rant> rather than requiring each location's name to be unique what should be required to be unique is the combination of location name and libraryId <lesserRant> the fact that locations also require a campusId and an institutionId is unnecessarily redundant</lesserRant></rant>
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Our current ILS uses locations in ways that FOLIO does not. In FOLIO a checked out item's status is "checked out" which does not effect it's its location. How does FOLIO indicate other details that our ILS uses current locations, like DISCARD or MISSING, for?The location names that we decide to use in FOLIO should not be longer than necessary since there isn't a lot of space
Online titles will not have items with material types (such as E-REF) or call numbers with locations (such as USGOVDOCS.) In order to identify online titles as belonging to a group such as Reference or US Gov Docs we will use the "nature of content" field in the instance record. I had thought that we could use tags for this but it looks like tags are only working in user records at this point.
The institution has been created via API using /opt/folio/api/POST/locinsts.pl
Campuses have been created via API using /opt/folio/api/POST/loccamps.pl
Libraries have been created via API using /opt/folio/api/POST/loclibs.pl
Locations have been created via API using /opt/folio/api/POST/locations.pl - all of the above was accomplished on 6/17/2020
ILS Home Locations | ILS Current Locations | FOLIO Institutions, Campuses (buildings), Libraries (collections), & Locations |
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19CENT ACQ ARCHIVES ATLAS ATRIUM BIBLE BLACK BYNNER BYRON CATALOG CATALOGING CATHER CHESLER CIRCKEYS DORNAN ELLIS FAC-ALUM FOLIO FRAG-PER HABERLY HERBERG HYMNBOOK ILLOFF KOHLER KORNITZER KUMIN LANDAU MCCLINTOCK MEDIALIB METHLIB METHMFORM METHREADNG MICHALSON MICROFORM NJDOCS OFFSITE OVERSIZE PHONODISC POPCULTURE PRAYERBOOK PRESERV RAREBOOKS REFCOUNTER REFERENCE REFOFF RESERVES |
SBLARCHIVE
SCILIB SIMENON STACKS STORAGE THEO THESIS THOMAS UN-CIRC UN-NONCIRC US-CIRC US-NONCIRC USGOVDOCS WESTAR WGST WWW ZUCK | 19CENT ACQ ARCHIVES ATLAS ATRIUM BIBLE BLACK BYNNER BYRON CATALOG CATALOGING CATHER CHECKEDOUT CHESLER CIRCKEYS DAMAGED DISCARD DISPLAY DORNAN ELLIS FAC-ALUM FOLIO FRAG-PER HABERLY HERBERG HOLDS HYMNBOOK ILL ILLOFF KOHLER KORNITZER KUMIN LANDAU LOST-ASSUM LOST-CLAIM LOST-PAID LOST MCCLINTOCK MEDIALIB METHLIB METHMFORM METHREADNG MICHALSON MICROFORM MISSING NJDOCS OFFSITE OVERSIZE PHONODISC POPCULTURE PRAYERBOOK PRESERV RAREBOOKS REFCOUNTER REFERENCE REFOFF REPAIR |
RESERVES |
SBLARCHIVE
SCILIB SIMENON STACKS STORAGE THEO THESIS THOMAS UN-CIRC UN-NONCIRC US-CIRC US-NONCIRC USGOVDOCS WESTAR WGST WITHDRAWN WWW ZUCK |
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