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Adding 'own' Covers to Alma records!

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This question might be related to:

https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/38314153-how-can-we-add-a-book-cover-image-or-equipment-ima

We would like to have the ability to add covers in Alma (and display those in Primo) for all kinds of records.

Br,

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  • Josep Sanmartí commented  · 

    We (the CSUC consortium) are also very interested about displaying our local covers collection in ALMA (and PrimoVE)

  • yfergus commented  · 

    Please make this happen!

  • Sveinbjörg Sveinsdóttir commented  · 

    This functionality is very much needed for local language materials. These books are usually not available in Google Books oder Syndetics. For Consortia supporting public and school libraries, it's vital that we can display bookcovers for books published in Iceland in Icelandic.
    As it currently stands, Alma-D/Specto is of no help either as it does not support consortia setup (Network Zone and several Institutions Zones), with Bib residing in the NZ.

  • Patricia Farnan commented  · 

    Please develop this - we are starting to work with Collection Discovery and OER resources, and would like to add book covers where they aren't found by Syndetics.

  • Marisol Ramos commented  · 

    I hope ExLibris offer a solution for this issue. Many old editions, foreign language titles and small presses don't have book covers available through PRIMO. It makes any Discovery Collection sort of drab compare with other collections that use current English language books.

  • [Deleted User] commented  · 

    We have tried a couple of options to add cover images to records.
    Option 1. Adding an 856 42 with a link to a thumbnail image and an associated Primo links:thumbnail normalization rule.
    Option 2. Adding an image as an "Auxilary" digital representation in a digital collection.
    Both of these workaround approaches are not ideal.

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