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  1. Best SMD Screen Providers?

    Can someone recommend Best SMD Screen Providers?

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  2. Change CDI handling of Language data for Primo

    CDI Language data in handled in ways which have undesirable impact on patrons in Primo, such as:
    • A default language is applied to all records in a CDI feed for use in Primo in the Language field display, search, and facet. This may be done when the CDI provider feed has no record-specific Language information available automatically and the provider has not otherwise advised that all the records are in a specific known language and confirmed that this Language can be applied to the records in CDI
    • Records may be allowed to merge into a CDI logical record…

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  3. Improve Primo linking to limit dead/inaccurate links

    To prevent user confusion, frustration, and access delays, we would like Ex Libris' Primo to mirror a feature that LibKey calls "Entitlement Confirmation," which would help prevent delivering dead links to end users, especially when Metadata in the CDI is lacking or incorrect.

    Delays between publishing and availability, especially with third-party databases (like EBSCOHost), happen often and can vary in length due to the nature of aggregation. The proposed change would confirm if content is available before indicating to end users that it is. This saves user and staff time and effort, streamlining the process and managing expectations while providing…

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  4. Disabling automatically generated links for related records if the associated NR is disabled.

    Primo VE is capable to automatically create links to related records via MARC 7xx fields.
    As these links where not working well for us, we were looking to turn them off with a NR, by setting “set pnx."display"."relation" to "N/A"” for 776 specifically.
    Unfortunately, this turned out not to work in all cases. As Ex Libris explained this is because
    - in the related records, they differentiate between child records and parent records
    - for child records, as the specific relation field is included, Display NR takes effect
    - for parent records, as the specific relation field is not included,…

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  5. NZ/IZ linking in consortia

    Background: MARC 776 is used to establish a link between related records (Also available in another form:). If a link cannot be established, a title search is started instead.

    In a consortial environment, there is an issue with this: Primo VE is only able to establish a link if both the linking and the linked-to title are available locally. This happens because Primo depends on Alma functionality for related records to establish a link and Alma is building them within institution scope only (Network is considered just another institution in this regard). This means that as soon as only the…

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  6. Author/Title Index in Browse Search

    Author/Title Index in Browse Search
    Please include 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

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  7. PressReader

    PressReader uses Webhook functionality to enable direct search of its content within Primo VE.

    In Brief Search Results the link displays as "check for available services'. This is not configurable (Salesforce #07245690).

    In the Full Record Screen the default text 'Link to Resource' is used.

    This is sourced from Links and General Electronic Services Labels.

    Can there please be a separate label, created specifically for PressReader, with text configurable by the library?

    Screenshots attached

    Thank you!

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  8. Add ability to display item status in locations list in Get It section

    Currently, the locations list displays a holdings summary for each location. To view the status of held items, users must click into each location's details. It would streamline the user journey if the item status (item in place, on loan, on order, etc.) could be displayed within the locations list itself, in addition to the holdings summary.

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  9. Suppress blank yellow box in "View It" section

    Currently, when there are no online access links in the "View It" section on the full details page, a blank yellow box appears. Can this be suppressed when there are no links to display?

    We receive numerous problem reports each year from students who are confused. Thank you!

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  10. Influence the algorithm in the display format for hits on large broad subject searches where local repository records appear.

    In our library we have decided that Primo should also display records from a local repository. This is a database of references to research publications produced by our researchers at our university. It is not always the case that we have electronic access to the titles in this local database. And it's not always the case that we own the physical works.
    So we would like to have the titles in our catalogue, but we are well aware that at best they are reference titles that have to be obtained/borrowed.
    We are planning to display more local repositories through our…

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  11. Make "Subject is(exact)" a precision search that returns results based on exact subjects

    Currently in legacy Primo, a Subject is(exact) search returns items that do not have the specified terms in the visible records, but returns matches from the CDI metadata that is not presented in the record. For clarity of functionality, returning only results that include the specified terms would be preferable. (Similar to NERS 8871 which was focused on the Title fields.)

    (An alternative would be to increase transparency of results so that the CDI metadata that constitutes a match is visible to end users.)

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  12. Prioritize library locations based on the active library view?

    Configure PrimoVE to prioritize library locations based on the active library view? Display the location or locations that belong to the library view first in the result list

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  13. Ability to add fields to request forms

    Hi team,

    I am Chandan from the University of Tasmania and we recently got our Ex Libris systems. One thing we noticed while working with request forms was that there was no way to add or change the fields on request forms such as purchase request, hold request etc. It would be really good if we could do that! We currently require fields such as location and number of units in the purchase request form to better track the request for the submitter.

    Thank you

    Regards,
    Chandan
    Library Systems Administrator
    UTAS

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  14. Add a “Scholarly” Search Results Facet

    Adding a "Scholarly" search results facet to Primo VE or the future NDE, in addition to the existing "Peer-Reviewed" facet, would be beneficial, similar to Summon's “Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed” facet.

    Not all peer-reviewed articles are scholarly, so having both facets would enable users to refine their searches according to their specific needs.

    This shouldn’t require huge effort since Summon is also an Ex Libris product, and resources for implementation should be readily available.

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  15. Change newspaper indexing from weekly to daily

    The CDI indexes newspaper content, like Proquest Newsstream, once a week. We would like to see newspaper specific content, that have daily issues updated in Primo on a daily basis. Patrons conducting newspaper searches in Primo report missing content, but need to redirect them to the individual databases for daily news.

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  16. Sort by date for Primo favourites - option to change sort order (newest / oldest)

    We would like to be able to change the sort order (newest / oldest) when sorting by date in Primo favourites.

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  17. Display only the last entered Date Range facet

    When a person refines a date a second time in Primo, Primo simply displays an additional date facet in the Active Filters area. For example, a person initially filters a search to Years: 1919-2025 and then decides to filter again by Years: 2024-2025. Instead of removing the first date facet and replacing it with the second, Primo simply adds the second facet underneath the first facet. This does not make sense and presents a usability problem for the end user. In all other cases, when two facets are used within the same category, they are to be regarded as having…

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  18. Link Authorities in BIB Records to Local Authority Search Records

    Current Situation: Local authority search allows patrons to search for authorities and obtain a list of BIB records to which they are connected. However, it is not possible to navigate from an authority in a BIB record to the local authority record in Primo.

    Proposed Change: Enable navigation from an authority in a BIB record to the corresponding local authority record in Primo.

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  19. Enable Custom Configuration of Primo Normalization Rules for Local Authority Search

    Current Situation: Local authority search records are currently displayed with hard-coded normalization rules (NRs).

    Proposed Change: Allow users to configure Primo normalization rules for local authority search. This flexibility will enable us to normalize authority records and display fields according to our specific needs.

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  20. full text

    Currently "full text" is limited to first 65K characters of an article or of a complete [!] book (along with chapter abstracts only) from CDI, or even less from Alma, and not from all sources (e.g., not from JSTOR). Thus tweak results to full text is misleading. For articles, entering from google scholar may circumvent the problem partially. For books, true research now requires search full text (possibly not available or only available in snippet view) in google books for finding the required source and pages, then searching the discovery for the book for electronic access, similar to finding a…

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