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Canadian Perspectives on Implementing Alma/Primo

Canadian Perspectives on Implementing Alma/Primo. Allison Erhardt Brigitte L’Heureux Lisa O’Hara. Overview. Two Institutions, Two Languages, One Alma Primo in French and English Living in the (American) Cloud

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Canadian Perspectives on Implementing Alma/Primo

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  1. Canadian Perspectives on Implementing Alma/Primo Allison ErhardtBrigitte L’HeureuxLisa O’Hara

  2. Overview • Two Institutions, Two Languages, One Alma • Primo in French and English • Living in the (American) Cloud Photo by Marcio Cabral deMora, https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdemoura/5756650990

  3. Two institutions, Two languages, one alma

  4. French Interface (Alma) Image by TsahiLevent-Levi https://flic.kr/p/cBFFBS

  5. Training materials French interface…

  6. French interface… • Name searchingwithdiacritics • Éric Vielfaure • Éric = 0 results • Eric = 0 results • Vielfaure = list of all nameswithVielfaure, Éric included • SpineOMatic

  7. Authorities • Names in French and English • USB uses French form for personal, corporate and meeting names where it is different from the English name • UML uses English form of names for all materials • Subjects in French and English • USB uses RVM exclusively • UML uses LC Subjects & CSH or MAN

  8. Authentication • Many patrons from many places • Internal and external • Internal and “associated”

  9. Letters & Notifications • Problems: • Many letters did not have French Translations out of the box • Customized Translations in Letters were not all working • Salutations were still English(Fixed in April Release of Alma) • One Institution wants to use letters for a function, the other doesn’t want them

  10. Primo in French and English

  11. Issues Two interfaces needed

  12. Primo in French and English…

  13. Continuing Language Barriers

  14. Living in the (american) cloud

  15. Issues

  16. Privacy

  17. ... And More Privacy

  18. Homepage

  19. allison.erhardt@umanitoba.ca blheureux@ustboniface.ca lisa.ohara@umanitoba.ca Thank you

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