Primo Back Office: In a consortial environment, Ability to localize Alma collections to a specific instance of Primo
Hello.
Our university system is in a consortial configuration of Alma and Primo Back Office.
Currently, we cannot use Alma collections because one university's (local and institution-specific) collections display in all other Primo instances in our consortia. This is problematic and confusing because a collection at University A displays in University B's Primo as if it were University B's collection. But the collection is local and specific to University A only.
The "collections" I'm talking about are described in the following Exlibris documentation: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/050Inventory/050Managing_Collections
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/060Back_Office_Guide/060Configuring_Primo%E2%80%99s_Front_End/050Collection_Discovery
We opened Salesforce cases 00636941 and 00708998 and were told by the Exlibris analysts that "No, currently there is not a way to localize the Collection Paths of Collection Discovery collections. This would be an enhancement request"
And "This would be an enhancement request, as suggested in the previous case. We've reviewed this issue and concluded that the option of localizing Collections is not currently available in Primo. We strongly encourage you to submit this as an enhancement via the Idea Exchange portal"
Thank you.
-Marcus