Glossary

The ECS Glossary contains additional terms that are used in the FOLIO context. These need to be reconciled with canonical DCB terms, and those used in Sierra and Polaris contexts.

Agency - treated as the same as a library

Author -

Borrowing library –

Cluster -

Consolidated holdings –

Contributor -

DCB – Direct Consortium Borrowing application streamlines the process of borrowing and lending to and by members of a consortium. Primarily, the DCB acts as a broker to update state transitions between the member libraries engaged in reciprocal borrowing.

Format -

Lending library –

Match key –

Material Type -

Member -

Normalized –

Orphaned Request – A supplier request for which somehow we've lost an outer context (ie, a patron, an item, a patron request). A catch all term for foreign key violation in the request context.

Owning library –

Request –

Requesting library –

Transaction –