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In the Inventory App you can look up the Circulation History of an item to see when it was last checked in, the service point that checked it in and the source (the name of the person who checked it it).
FOLIO Fun Fact #11
Sorting Inventory Results by Title (an advanced FOLIO Fun Fact)
The Title sort (which is the default sort) for Inventory results, currently includes any initial articles.
To view titles sorted without initial articles, you can force a different sort by manually changing “sort=title” in the URL to “sort=indexTitle” (note the capital “T”).
FOLIO Fun Fact #12
If you want to place a request on an item that is AVAILABLE, you would place a PAGE request rather than a HOLD request. FOLIO will only give you that option.
FOLIO Fun Fact #13
Save or share a search strategy in Inventory:
Since FOLIO is web-based, you can save and share searches by bookmarking or copying and pasting the URL from the search.
For example, this:
will take you directly to the results of a search for keyword “dogs” with items in location “Vet.” (You will need to log in to the FOLIO training environment first.)
Can you tell what this search is for? (extra points if you can figure it out just looking at the URL!)
https://cornell-training.folio.ebsco.com/inventory?qindex=title&query=green%20eggs&sort=title
FOLIO Fun Fact #14
Proxies pop-up on the Check out App
In FOLIO if a patron is a proxy for another patron, that information will pop-up when you scan their ID from the Check Out App. The pop-up will ask, “Who are you acting as?” The default is that the patron is acting as themselves. All the patrons they are a proxy for will be listed. You simply click the appropriate patron and continue the check out process.
FOLIO Fun Fact #15
FOLIO Is Young
FOLIO is an open-source suite of apps, created collaboratively by the FOLIO community which includes librarians, library vendors, independent developers, and others. FOLIO’s development began in late 2016 (the main wiki page was created on Aug 18, 2016). This means if FOLIO were a human it would possibly be preparing to start kindergarten this fall.
Despite its youth, it’s already changed a lot from its earliest days. Here’s what the initial login screen looked like only four years ago (June 2017), when the only available apps were Users and Settings:
For more FOLIO history, and recent stuff as well, check out the Open Library Foundation’s YouTube channel, which is where we grabbed this screenshot.
