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1. “My Favorites” pin should indicate number of records in favorites

   In the Primo New UI, there is the “my favorites” pin icon at the top right of the screen (screenshot below of the pin). We ran some usability surveys and found that users would like an indication, via the icon, that something is there. Like the number if pinned items and/or a different color indicating that something is there.

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2. Exported citations to EndNote include a URL

   When you export citations from Primo to EndNote using the download option then you don't get a fulltext URL. This means you would have to save the pdf if available or add the link separately.

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3. Primo Central Index ( PCI ) - more granularity in excluding content from activated resources - e.g. exclude from index by resource type

   Right now in Primo Central Index the customer can either activate or not a resource. But sometimes more granularity would be appreciated. Namely adding a filter by resource type allowing inclusion or exclusion in the index would be very useful. Please note: it's not a matter of adding a resource type in PCI. It's a matter of excluding records with a specific resource type from activated resources.

   For example, some resources/data sources contains not only articles, but also journals and other resource types we actually catalogue. Since right now dedup does not work between local records and PCI, this ends up leading to a lot of duplicated entries in the search results (1 for the journal in the catalogue + 1 for the same journal in PCI).
   Allowing us to exclude Journals from PCI, thus having only articles, would greatly reduce noise and bias in the search results.

   Right now in Primo Central Index the customer can either activate or not a resource. But sometimes more granularity would be appreciated. Namely adding a filter by resource type allowing inclusion or exclusion in the index would be very useful. Please note: it's not a matter of adding a resource type in PCI. It's a matter of excluding records with a specific resource type from activated resources.

   For example, some resources/data sources contains not only articles, but also journals and other resource types we actually catalogue. Since right now dedup does not work between local records and PCI, this ends… more

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4. Display only a certain amount of characters in the "Title" area for search results.

   Several entries in the PCI, especially Book Reviews, have "incorrect" metadata provided by the vendor, which leads to extremely long titles being displayed in the results page. Having the ability to cap the display of these titles at a customizable number of maximum characters could help in such cases to clean up display (as many times correcting the metadata for these results is beyond ExLibris' capability/authority).

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   Allow users to text themselves call number/location for an item

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6. Embargoed resources displaying in Primo

   Currently records from within an embargo period are discover-able to end-users via Primo.
   The user then thinks we have access to the records and selects it only to be presented with No full text available.
   Embargoed records are outside of our coverage range and should not display in our discovery interface.

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7. Author/Title Index in Browse Search

   Every library catalog I have ever used has included an Author/Title index which searches headings combining author/creator name and uniform title. The index usually includes:
   * 100/240
   * 110/240
   * 111/240
   * 700 where $$t is present
   * 710 where $$t is present
   * 711 where $$t is present
   * 800 where $$t is present
   * 810 where $$t is present; and
   * 811 where $$t is present

   I have included screenshots of how this browse search works in the Library of Congress' system, using "Shakespeare, William" as a search term.

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8. Add Library pre-filter to Primo VE Advanced Search

   It would be helpful if users could pre-scope their search to a particular library in the advanced search, rather than waiting to filter with the post-search facets.

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9. Allow customization of the item status field in Primo

   The item status field is misleading for material that is on order. Primo displays a message saying “Item not yet received, expected on DD/MM/YYYY”. This date can be several weeks in the future. It is calculated by adding a set number of days specific to a vendor to the date that the order was sent to the vendor. The number of days is set according to when it is judged to be appropriate to claim items which have not been received. We therefore tend to set it as eight or so weeks in the future for many vendors. In reality most items are received well before the expected date, but because it can be several weeks away it causes concern among patrons.
   We could reduce the number of expected days specified for the vendor, but this would unnecessarily increase the number of items identified for claiming. We would therefore like to have the option of customising the item status field so that it could, for example, simply say “Item on order” or “Items not yet received, ordered on DD/MM/YYYY”.

   The item status field is misleading for material that is on order. Primo displays a message saying “Item not yet received, expected on DD/MM/YYYY”. This date can be several weeks in the future. It is calculated by adding a set number of days specific to a vendor to the date that the order was sent to the vendor. The number of days is set according to when it is judged to be appropriate to claim items which have not been received. We therefore tend to set it as eight or so weeks in the future for many vendors. In reality… more

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10. Automatically open to full display when there is only one result for the search.

    When a Primo search finds an exact match (only one record displays in the search results list), it would be useful (and reduce clicks) if the record automatically opened to the full display. If a user knows exactly what they're looking for, the interim (brief) display is unnecessary. A direct link to the full display is currently only possible from a permalink. The permalink contains the publishing id which is not available from Alma APIs, analytics or source record. Search urls using the source record id should automatically open to the full display.

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11. Put useful data into the RSS feeds created by Primo

    Technically RSS feeds created by Primo are working. But from a content perspective the feed is a mess.

    Let's start with the feed header:

    Primo delivers <rss version="2.0">
    The standard specification are at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification . It was published in August 2002. The RSS 2.0 specification is copyrighted by Harvard University and is frozen. Please use RFC 4287 also known as Atom.
    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
    It is simply the better option for may reasons.
    http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared

    The description of the feed is <title>Records from Primo</title> .
    As a user I would like to see my search terms in the feed title - like in the brief result screen in the web interface. At minimum it should be the name of the service where this feed is coming from. The name of software used to create the feed is useless to a reader.

    The link to the source is pointing back to the Primo main page with the classic user interface. But that's confusing for institutions using the new user interface!

    Let's have a look to a feed item:

    A cruical element of RSS feeds is the
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:25:22 GMT</pubDate>
    The specification says: "Its value is a date, indicating when the item was published." In a Primo feed this is always the same date; I assume it is the time stamp when the feed was created. Please change this immediately. RSS management software cannot handle it because the pubDate is used for chronological sorting and to find out what's new. What's needed is the publication date of the publication or second best the date and time when the record was added to the Primo index.

    The delivered link in the link field is "the URL of the item". It's pointing back to the full view of the record in Primo. That makes sense. But if available I would like to get the OpenURL here because I want to connect my users to the article or the service page and not to the Primo record again. It's fulfillment at this point!

    Why the same link is also in guid is a mystery to me. RSS standard says: "guid stands for globally unique identifier. It's a string that uniquely identifies the item. When present, an aggregator may choose to use this string to determine if an item is new." What about the PNX ID?

    Last not least the description:
    <description>Plasmodium Falciparum -- Analysis ; Proteases -- Analysis ; Proteins -- Analysis ; Phosphates -- Analysis ; Malaria -- Analysis;</description>
    Often it incorporates only "N/A" or sometimes subject headings. But the description should include the same information as the brief view in the web interface of Primo like bibliographic information, identifier, subject headings, language, etc. This is what the user will see in his feed reader of choice or what a feed aggregation system can use to give meaningful context for the title of this item. Of course it's tricky because a Primo search delivers very different types of content with very different metadata. Books have authors; journals have not. Articles are published in a journal and pictures have a resolution and digital objects have a file format.

    Today there are no customization options for the feed content. If the settings of the brief view are applied to the feed too, it would improve the item description massively and solve the description problem. This need is solved for the export to a reference management software. The RSS feed for a query is not so much different from that.

    Technically RSS feeds created by Primo are working. But from a content perspective the feed is a mess.

    Let's start with the feed header:

    Primo delivers <rss version="2.0">
    The standard specification are at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification . It was published in August 2002. The RSS 2.0 specification is copyrighted by Harvard University and is frozen. Please use RFC 4287 also known as Atom.
    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
    It is simply the better option for may reasons.
    http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared

    The description of the feed is <title>Records from Primo</title> .
    As a user I would like to see my search terms in the feed title - like in… more

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12. Make Publisher an Indexable Field that Can be Searched or Scoped in Primo

    Many of our users like to search by publisher to find new materials or a particular edition--it would be helpful if that field could at least be picked up by keyword search.

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13. Add wording to Advanced Search Box

    Currently, unlike the Basic Search box, one cannot add wording in the Advanced Search box in the new Primo UI, like "Enter search terms", which is confusing as users don't know that they need to click in the first Advanced Search box to start searching. Even moving the cursor to the first Advanced Search box would help.

    Thanks,

    Ryan

    Ryan Edwards
    Digital Access and Systems Librarian
    Getty Digital – Collection Management Systems
    Getty Research Institute
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
    Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
    reedwards@getty.edu
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14. Allow for consistant customizations in the new UI

    The open discovery of the new UI allows customers to customize the new UI, extend its functionalities, and connect Primo with external services.
    This framework can offer an important added value to institutions; it can enable them to respond to specific needs of their user community.
    We want to implement extensions for functionalities like:
    • Offer a button “report a problem” that allows a user to report a broken link or another problem with a specific source he found. The form sends this message to our helpdesk, together with useful debug info like : is the user on or off campus, browser version used, search query, pnx-id,.. and his e-mail address when he is signed in. Our e-resources staff finds this functionality extremely useful: more linking issues are reported now and they can be handled in a more efficient way.
    • Offer a button “Pay fines” that allows a user to pay fines online. The button is only displayed when the user has fines.

    These are extensions that we currently implemented in our old UI.
    But creating extensions that make use of session data (like user email, vid, …) are time consuming and risk full:
    • Time consuming because documentation is limited not to say non-existing, this requires reading the code. It has a high maintenance cost since after every release, extensions can break and it is difficult to find out why because of the lack of clear release notes.
    • It is risk full because we don’t know whether we will be able to fix the functionality in the two weeks between release on staging and production. It is also risk full because we don’t know if the extensions will still work after the transition to Angular 2.

    Our request is :
    Please provide us with session data in every component so we can quickly create components.
    One way to make the extensions manageable and future proof, is to use a data model (see primo-explore-dom). If the data is framework agnostic it will become more portable and working with data is easier and almost timeless.
    This way everybody can develop within the reach of their skillset and more institutions would be able to take profit of the open discovery framework.
    But we are open to any solution to overcome the issues mentioned.

    The open discovery of the new UI allows customers to customize the new UI, extend its functionalities, and connect Primo with external services.
    This framework can offer an important added value to institutions; it can enable them to respond to specific needs of their user community.
    We want to implement extensions for functionalities like:
    • Offer a button “report a problem” that allows a user to report a broken link or another problem with a specific source he found. The form sends this message to our helpdesk, together with useful debug info like : is the user on or off… more

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15. Display twitter and messages in the third column

    Summon allows us to display messages and Twitter in the third column. Please can Primo be made to do this?

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16. an "I Want It" button

    The Penn State library has an “I want it” feature in its catalog, in the search results. It struck me as very direct and to the point. When you click it, it prompts you to sign into their system but I assume it would take you to a request form. I don’t know why they hide it under that three dot icon. I would like to see in Primo, if possible, an “I want it” button, not buried in a menu but right next to every book title in the Primo search result. The idea being that clicking “I want it” will take you to the request form for off campus or distance students. And if it could populate the form with the title and call number information, all the better.

    The Penn State library has an “I want it” feature in its catalog, in the search results. It struck me as very direct and to the point. When you click it, it prompts you to sign into their system but I assume it would take you to a request form. I don’t know why they hide it under that three dot icon. I would like to see in Primo, if possible, an “I want it” button, not buried in a menu but right next to every book title in the Primo search result. The idea being that clicking “I want… more

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17. Create a link for users to report an issue

    There are some institutions that have added functionality where users can report a problem for a specific record. It would be great if this could be offered through Primo. Users would click on an icon to report their issue. In the back office, there would be the option to configure the url for the hyperlinked icon. It would be even better to add logic where you could configure the link in relation to the type of record (CZ, NZ, IZ). This builds on the idea on reporting an issue for CZ records.

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18. Allow Primo to comply with the "force password change on next login" setting in Alma for internal users

    Alma has the internal user setting "Force password change on next login". Primo does not comply with this setting, so there is no way to force patrons to change their passwords in Primo. This is problematic, because our internal user accounts have a very insecure default password initially set for them. Please consider implementing this feature for Primo

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19. Exclude online material

    Many library users want to search for print material and not the online material. We want to be able to exclude the online material. Right now you can choose to search print material that is available on the shelf, but doing that you miss out on the titles that are out on loan.

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20. Return to search results from favorites space

    there should be a "return to search results" in the prm-favorites-toolbar in the same way there is the a return to search results for "my account"

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