Building a digital bookplate website via Primo
Presenters
- Wei Xuan, University of Manitoba Libraries
- Les Moor, University of Manitoba Libraries
This presentation will demonstrate how the University of Manitoba Libraries (UML) built a digital bookplate website via Primo. Traditionally, the library acknowledges donors by stamping materials purchased through a donation fund. This practice does not allow the library to easily demonstrate the significance of the donor’s contribution.
After exploring the options, UML has decided to use Primo to showcase the donor’s contribution. This presentation explains how materials purchased through any specific donation fund are identified in Alma and retrieved in Primo, how a Primo View is customized in order to build the digital bookplate website, and how Primo and LibGuides are integrated to make the landing page of the digital bookplate website.
With this practice, UML has a central web space to acknowledge all donors. Existing donors will easily see the collections they have contributed. Potential donors will easily understand how the contribution is acknowledged.
When is a Government Document not a Government Document? Making sense of local resource types in Primo VE
Presenters
- Susan Bond, University of Toronto Libraries
For institutions that hold print Government Documents, the presence of the CDI Government Documents resource type can make for an unintuitive user experience: when a user selects that resource type in a blended search, they are excluding all of the local physical government documents. Come hear how the University of Toronto is surfacing our print government documents collections, why we are not using the MARC leader information to do so, and how solving this problem informed our approach to assigning local resource types.
Building cultural sensitivity into Primo
Presenter
- Stacey van Groll, University of Queensland
The University of Queensland Library has a dedicated focus on our journey building and embedding relationships and participation for First Nations peoples. We seek out opportunities to leverage our Primo discovery layer in these efforts, including with a recent Cultural Sensitivity Statements project. This work included adding a Cultural advice indicator, banner, and facet on evaluated records, and display of an Advisory statement specific to the content. Identification of records extends across UQ systems of Alma, our Archival Management System AtoM, and our UQ eSpace Institutional Repository. Additional project elements include embedding cultural sensitivity messaging and engagement tools across our Library’s web presence, establishing targeted contact points for queries and input, and considering how we might measure the value added. This session will share details of this project, from record metadata in source systems through to discovery and engagement in our online environment.
Building a Primo View for Collection Assessment
Presenters
- Sarah Theimer, University of New Hampshire
Libraries are looking for ways to understand more about the collections and identify the diversity gaps within their collections. There is much useful information that is not traditionally found in the MARC record. Wikidata has been used by libraries as a source of linking for information cards, but it has not been used a data source for diversity audits. Taking a sample population from Alma, bibliographic information can be uploaded into OpenRefine where names can be reconciled using Wikidata. Then Wikidata properties can be added to the spreadsheet. This information can travels back to MARCEdit and eventually be imported into Alma. The Wikidata properties are then mapped into local fields and enabled as facets. When we create an Alma scope activating these facets, librarians and staff can drill down on various characteristics including the sex/gender of author, the country of citizenship of the author and the sex/gender of the subject to get a more complete picture of the collection.