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Exploring Primo: The Ultimate Discovery Interface for Alliance SILS

Discover the comprehensive features of Primo, the discovery interface designed for the Alliance SILS. Data integration from sources such as Alma, Primo Central Index, and various APIs enriches user experience. This guide covers essential topics like implementation and configuration, branding, customization, advanced search options, scopes, and facets. Additionally, learn about requesting locally held items, interlibrary loans, and managing recalls for checked-out materials. Understand how authentication timing by patrons is determined by individual Alliance libraries.

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Exploring Primo: The Ultimate Discovery Interface for Alliance SILS

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  1. Discovery throughPrimo

  2. What is Primo? • Discovery interface for the Alliance SILS • Data for Primo comes from three different • sources: • Alma – records of all items cataloged • or owned by an Alliance library • Primo Central Index-hundreds of • collections licensed by Ex Libris • APIs – EBSCO & WorldCat

  3. Primo Implementation & Configuration • Complete Implementation Workbook • Branding/customization • Basic & advanced searches • Scopes & facets • Details tab • Request logic • Summit requests • Interlibrary loan requests

  4. Requesting in Primo • Locally held items • Allow recalls for checked out local items • Offer link to request items through Summit • Links for interlibrary loan requests • Time of authentication by patron is • determined by each Alliance library

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