[Wactclc-alma] New interesting Primo discover regarding serial monographs.

[Guidry, Wade]

Yes, the default date sorting option in Primo is sorting on the publication date in the bib record, so it is working as expected.

Note that custom sorting options can be added to Primo (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Back_Office_Guide/110Additional_Primo_Features/Defining_Local_Sort_Fields )

And would be requestable via an SF ticket.

Off the top of my head, seems like the most proper approach in this case would be to add “from – to” info to the bib records (86x fields, I believe?), and have a sorting option trigger off that field, or a subfield within that field. (I don’t know for sure if a sorting option can be triggered off a holdings statement like that, but seems at least somewhat likely.)

Dale, you could probably post a question to Primo-L, and get a quick answer…. Something like “Is it possible to create a sort option in Primo on a holdings statement within bib records (or whatever the best way to ask that is), so that users can sort serial monographs by the holdings range of the attached holdings, rather than by the general publication date in the bib record?”






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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] New interesting Primo discover regarding serial monographs.

Yesterday, we discovered that Primo cannot date sort serial monographs correctly.  We have several serial monographs from RS Means that are cataloged as items on one serial record for each separate title set; however, when we do a general title search for RS Means and then try to sort our results by "date-newest" the results are sorted by the publication date of the record when it was created rather than sorting by the actual items we have.

In other words, if we have a serial record for RS Means Building Construction Cost Data, which has items from multiple years attached (including 2016), the "date-newest" sort shows this title near the bottom of the list because the date on the master bibliographic record is 1996.

We are thinking of changing all of our serial monographs to individual monographs unless there is another way to get around the date sort.

Check your catalogs and see if any of you have the same issue.

Dale Burke
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