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FOLIO

This guide provides information on the integrated library system (ILS) FOLIO and integrated products.

Quesnelia News and Upgrade Schedule

FOLIO now on Quesnelia

Our FOLIO tenant was successfully upgraded to Quesnelia on Sunday, November 11 at 8am.

Check out these these resources for more information about what is available in this release.

  • Release notes
  • EBSCO Quesnelia Release Updates video (You must log in to your EBSCOConnect account to view).
  • EBSCO Quesnelia Release Updates video supporting slides (You must log in to your EBSCOConnect account to view).

Quesnelia Release Training

Documentation

Highlighted Fixes and New Features

Agreements

  • In agreement records, pagination options for agreement lines instead of "See More".

Bulk Edit

  • Query tool available
  • Record type additions: instance
  • Holdings record field additions: suppress from discovery, location, notes, electronic access
  • Display entire set of records

Dashboard

  • Content type filter added to agreements widget

Finance

  • Restrict funds by location

Inventory

  • Set instance record and corresponding MARC (SRS) record for deletion
  • 010 (LCCN) search improvements
  • Leader contextual help for all MARC types
  • 008 contextual help
  • Ability to enter dollar sign in MARC field
  • MARC record validation rules
  • LCCN normalized search option
  • Default: staff suppress set to "no".
  • Display summary from public pattern in Serial record displays in RTAC and item record

Invoices

  • New FOLIO invoice number field

Licenses

  • Supplementary documents, core documents, and license content filters
  • Search and filter based on whether particularly records have been linked or not

Lists (Beta)

  • New field: purchase order lines
  • New field: Organizations - contact info
  • New field: Organizations - vendor info
  • Users custom field checkbox
  • New record types: holdings, instances
  • Output organization information in delimited file format
  • Duplicate lists

MARC Authority

  • Create a MARC authority record using quickMARC

Orders

  • New custom fields for PO/POL
  • New POL record fields: claiming active; claiming interval
  • POL field "Donor" greyed out/ will be deprecated (replaced by Donor records)
  • Currency exchange enhancements

Organizations

  • Store banking information in Organization record
  • Create donor records

Receiving

  • Claiming unreceived or unreceivable items
  • Independent acquisitions units for ordering and receiving
  • New late, claimed, and unreceivable statuses
  • Can add item information when editing piece record
  • "Caption" field replaced by "Display Summary" field (from Serials record)

Requests

  • Allow printing slips for hold requests

New! Serials

  • Ability to create serial record
  • Requires link to POL
  • Used to create publication patterns for pieces to be automatically created in Receiving app.
  • Publication pattern includes publication cycle, omission rules, combination rules, and labeling

Users

  • Profile picture for user records (Must be setup by EBSCO)
  • New custom field type: Date picker