WOLFcon 2024

This session will explore the experiences of two small, special library which exists as a shared tenant with larger university libraries in a FOLIO system. We will discuss the benefits and challenges of being the smaller and specialist library buddied with a larger library within the same FOLIO tenant. In one case, the larger library supplies much of the labor and a larger proportion of the funding for the system; however, the smaller library independently performs the same processes and has developed their own workflows to accommodate a significantly smaller workforce. In the second library, the tenant division is more equitable, but difficulties with transparency and maintenance responsibility make collaboration and smooth transition between updates difficult. The presenters will discuss how to optimize a shared tenant as a much smaller special library, what pitfalls can occur, and their recommendation for best practices for the special library’s administration and maintenance of the shared tenant.