This week in Foundry: more of FOLIO, and preparing to run it elsewhere
Acquisitions, Lists, Circulation Log and Courses broaden Foundry's native FOLIO selection, with ILL testing and repeatable independent installations next.
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Lab notes on making specialist library software discoverable, adoptable, provisionable, and sustainable as a managed service.
Acquisitions, Lists, Circulation Log and Courses broaden Foundry's native FOLIO selection, with ILL testing and repeatable independent installations next.
Catalogue tools, Calendar, Notes and native Circulation bring Foundry closer to full FOLIO, with selectable modules in Console and portability on the drawing board.
Self-hosted storage, scalable routing and a working nightly Snapshot: a progress report on the less visible work that makes Foundry usable in practice.
A short pointer to the OpenRS Coalition recording where Knowledge Integration walked through current ORS-Appliance, KI Console, and deployment work.
A short bookend on the hosted Foundry work after the Console adoption-loop proof, and why the next lab pivot turns toward OpenRS and ORS-Appliance.
A working note on ki-console, Foundry, and why sustainable open library infrastructure needs an adoption loop as well as a developer loop.