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Book Covers en ALMA- Very good service for the user.
The Spanish Conference of Bookstore Guilds and Associations (CEGAL) has created a functionality on its All Your Books platform with which to automatically include book covers.
Information that other Integrated Library Management Systems are executing this functionality.
https://www.baratz.es/todos-tus-libros-nueva-opcion-para-las-portadas-automaticas-en-absysnet/1 vote -
Primo VE, Quicklinks and "Available Online" indication
We’d like the "Available Online" text in be suppressed if Quicklinks are displayed for the citation in the brief results display.
As the librarians put it:
"to turn off the "Available Online"
link/message if the quick links are available. “And alternately, "... make the "Available Online" link go directly to the article like the "Read PDF" Quicklink option does? "
Reducing the number of possible links to click on would improve Primo VE.
Thanks.10 votes -
Export to Leganto from OneSearch - course information
Export to Leganto from OneSearch under 'full Record Services' - to include course information in addition to the already existing reading list information. Or, e.g. allow the lists to be searchable by typing e.g. the title/name
− Role: Course instructors
− Proposed feature: Be able to additionally see the course information as well as the existing reading list pneumonic/title when making a selection from the list, or be searchable by typing in the name of the list
− Feature’s benefit: Make it much easier and quicker to find the right resource list to add the title to. It is currently…
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Linked Open Data - Discovery of Person Entity with HKCAN name authorities
With the Primo VE May 2024 release, an option to enrich our library catalogue with linked open data of person entities is available. We understand that currently this enrichment is only available to personal headings linked to LC name vocabulary. However, in all of JULAC libraries, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean personal headings are mostly linked up with HKCAN name authority vocabulary. So, a vast amount of our records are not enriched with the linked open data. We'd like to propose extending this linked open data enrichment to person entities with HKCAN name authorities. Thank you for considering!
Salesforce ref. 07228906
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Research Assistant suggested subjects
In Research Assistant, it may be beneficial to offer users a list of relevant Primo subjects. Users may go to Primo VE & look excatly for the subjects suggested by the Research Assistant.
1 vote -
Add label to view it section in front of service provider link
Add a label to the front of the service provider name in the view it section so that it can be made clearer that users should click on this to access the resource. At the moment we have to use a customization to add text but it would be easier to maintain if this was a standard label.
3 votes -
Reference to public licenses of other institutions within the consortium
Public licenses can be viewed in Primo VE's electronic holdings information area, but public licenses are not displayed in the electronic holdings display area of other institutions.
I would like to be able to display public licenses from other institutions within the consortium on my own institution's Primo VE.
Without this function, I think that being able to view information on other institutions' electronic holdings would have little effect.
Detailed information is attached.45 votes -
Remove the total number of results
It would be useful if the total number of results are hidden by default from the search results page, but patrons have the option in their user account settings to enable the total number of results.
3 votes -
Ask for confirmation when deleting saved searches
In “Saved searches” and “Search history” sections, when clicking on remove icon, the query is deleted immediately.
A popup asking for confirmation could help preventing unwanted deletions
3 votes -
Resource Recommender: allow users to dismiss
This is important especially on small screens, where RRs can get in the way when not pertinent to a user's needs.
4 votes -
Expand Primo VE Browse Search to include dc:subject tags from Discovery Import Profile targets
The Primo VE Browse Search currently includes only those bibliographic items that are managed within Alma.
Since Discovery Import Profiles bring external data sources into the Primo VE search index, it would be an improvement to incorporate harvested dc:subject (or similar) fields into the Browse Search.
Often libraries have collections - especially digital ones - managed outside of Alma, but metadata is brought into Primo VE in order to provide a true all-of-library-collections search. Adding the ability to run a Browse Search across this imported metadata would be a useful feature.
1 vote -
Suppress Resource Sharing Request Form when consortium-owned items are unavailable
Please provide a pathway, via Display Logic Rules or otherwise, that would allow us to suppress the Resource Sharing Request Form in instances where an item owned by another institution in our consortium is UNAVAILABLE. Right now, all we can do in this case is modify a text message at the top of the form and hope that the user understands that s/he will need to use the interlibrary loan request form instead.
3 votes -
Add clickable logo option next to search bar
Some libraries like UCLA have edited their customization packages with custom javascript, CSS, and HTML to add a logo with an embedded link that will take the user back to the main Primo page. This is a useful feature, especially if the default upper left logo is pointed at a library's main web page instead of to Primo, but implementing similar code in other institutions' customization packages can be challenging--especially if it interferes with existing code for other functions. Having a second default logo with link option in this Primo location would be helpful for libraries that want this configuration…
8 votes -
Allow lowercase Boolean operators
When searching in Primo VE, Boolean operators must be entered in all caps. Many databases and search engines allow either uppercase or lowercase Boolean operators, so this requirement may trip up users and prevent them from getting the results they were looking for.
3 votes -
Enhance Primo Subject to Track the usage statistics by MMS ID and country
Enhance Primo subject to track the usage statistics (specifically downloads and views) by MMS ID and country of download.
9 votes -
Add Search within "Journals by Category" results
Journals by Category is less useful since each category could have hundreds of results. For example, searching by the category "Psychology" produces 623 journals. EDS' journal search allows you to search within that category--so in this case, you'd be able to search a specific topic among only the 623 psychology journals identified. We have professors who require students to find ten articles in Economics/Accounting journals that are published in the USA. A search within the category Economics journals for a topic, and perhaps even the location facet, would help these students out!
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Prepositions, conjunctions and articles must be written in lowercase in the "Journal Title" facet.
In Primo in the facets section there is one called "Magazine Title" where prepositions, conjunctions and articles such as "Of", "And", "The" appear with letters in capital letters which is incorrect,
since they must be shown in lowercase .
I attach a sample image.
Thank you.
En Primo en la sección de facetas hay una llamada "Título de la revista" donde aparecen las preposiciones, conjunciones y artículos como "De", "Y", "La" con letras en mayúsculas, lo cual es incorrecto, pues deben mostrarse en minusculas.
Anexo una imagen de muestra.
Gracias.
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Consolidated booking calendar view for patrons in Primo
Ability for patrons to view all bookable items in a single calendar.
Our library uses bookings for 9 student student rooms, so students may have to begin 9 separate booking requests before finding an available room. This is a tremendous frustration and waste of their time.
A consolidated booking calendar should allow students to preview availability of all rooms before attempting to place a request.
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Privacy in patron letters
Currently, patrons receive detailed item information in patron letters. We would like to make it possible for patrons to turn off letters (such as when they do not want this detailed information living in their email accounts).
In testing, we found that the current 'Personal Details' configuration in Alma (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/060Library_Card_Configuration/Configuring_Personal_Details_Settings_for_Primo_VE) does not allow us to limit patron changes to ONLY the notification preferences.
25 votes -
Allow manual control of thumbnails in Primo records
Primo uses Syndetics to supply thumbnails of book covers for records within Primo. However, when Syndetics provides an incorrect image based on their data, it requires a ticket and often several weeks to correct it. In contrast, some records have no thumbnail at all and use a default gray book icon. Libraries should have the option to use this default icon when Syndetics is providing an incorrect image, or to upload and use local images in cases of records that have no images in Syndetics (for example, with archival and special collection books that are old enough that they have…
34 votes
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