§ What is Primo? § How does Primo work? § What is in the Books search? § What is in the Articles search? § How do Alma records become Primo records? § Q&A
Articles Not all BC subscribed content is available - including EBSCO databases But Articles does include journals also covered by EBSCO databases – provided through different sources
TAKEAWAYS: Primo searches two separate buckets – Books and Articles We load and manage books Articles are loaded by the vendor Articles bucket is not the same content as Library databases
TAKEAWAYS: How records get into Primo: 1) Exported from source system (Alma, Digitool, etc) 2) Normalization rules applied 3) Transformed to PNX 4) Indexed Process happens nightly for Alma records Other source systems on varying schedules