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How does the Library catalog work? De-mystifyin...

How does the Library catalog work? De-mystifying Primo

Presentation given at Boston College Library on January 8, 2018. Provides Library staff with an overview of the Primo/Alma systems.

Emily Singley

January 04, 2018
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  1. How does the Library catalog work? de-mystifying Primo Emily Singley

    with Luke Gaudreau and Theresa Lyman January 2018
  2. §  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
  3. TAKEAWAYS: Alma and Primo are separate systems Primo does not

    search Alma directly (not an OPAC) Primo loads records from multiple sources
  4. Articles = Primo Central Index Articles bucket = Primo Central

    Index (PCI) We do NOT control the metadata Ex Libris (vendor) loads the records
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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