[Wactclc-primo] Primo August 2017 Release Highlights

[Guidry, Wade]

Primo August 2017 release highlights from Ex Libris, along with calendar invites to upcoming webinars covering these highlights.


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Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager
Big Bend Community College
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>

509.760.4474
www.bigbend.edu<http://www.bigbend.edu>

Big Bend Community College * 7662 Chanute Street NE * Moses Lake, WA 98837-3299



From: Primo [mailto:primo-bounces at exlibrisusers.org] On Behalf Of Miri Botzer
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 5:43 AM
To: Ex Libris user community discussion list for Primo <primo at exlibrisusers.org>
Subject: [Primo] Primo August 2017 Release Highlights

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Dear Primo Users,

We are pleased to share the highlights of the coming August 2017 release. The upgrade will be rolled out starting July 23: first to Primo cloud customers, then, about three weeks later, to customers with a local Primo installation.

The August release will include most of the remaining features from the classic interface in the new interface, including personalization, RSS, Featured Results, and silent login. This is a great opportunity for all of you to move to the new UI.

Two new enhancements will improve the user search and find experience:

*         Search expansion expands search terms with additional variations based on controlled vocabulary.

*         Resource Recommender provides the library with an option to recommend additional resources, such as databases, that match the user's search term.

As always we have continued improving performance. In this release, the results page in the new interface has an improved rendering time.

As part of our ongoing commitment to accessibility, this release includes numerous accessibility enhancements, such as improvements to the JAWS screen reader.

For more information about the release, please attend our webinar (details at the end of this email).

Primo Release Highlights
Resource Recommender
This new feature allows you to recommend additional resources to your user that may be relevant to their search. For example, you can display specific databases, research guides, or any other resource you see fit. The recommendations are based on the user's search, and their display varies according to their resource type. The display usually includes the resource name, a link to it, and a short description. In this first release, the focus is on exact name searches and name variations. This especially accommodates users who come to discovery to search for a specific database, for example JSTOR. Customers can add resources, descriptions, links and searchable tags via the Primo Back Office, either manually or by file upload. We also make a pre-populated list of databases available via the Ex Libris Knowledge Center. You can download this list, localize it, and upload it via the Primo Back Office. While in this release the Resource Recommender supports searches with exact matches to tags associated with a database, in a later release we will add capabilities to enable matches to topic searches as well. The Resource Recommender is available in the new Primo user interface only.

Search expansion with controlled vocabulary
With this release we are beginning to add search expansions with controlled vocabulary to the user search. These expansions are visible on the screen and add, for example, variations of the search term with the same meaning (example ADHD and attention deficit disorder, or name variations such as assata shakur and asata shakur). The user is provided with the option to reverse to using only their original term. In this first release you will see this expansion only in a few searches in Primo Central, so it appears above the blended search results and Primo Central search scopes. The feature is based on vocabularies such as LC subjects and MeSH. The controlled vocabulary repository will be extended so you will see the feature grow and extend to more searches over time. The search expansion is enabled by default and can be switched on and off at the institution level in the Primo Back Office. The feature is currently only available for the Primo new user interface. In a later release we will also add it to the classic user interface.

Sort in Favorites
As voted for in the Idea Exchange<http://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/9215787-add-sort-order-in-e-shelf>, users can now sort by date, author, and title in the favorites list in the new interface.

Persistence Facets
Users that tend to refine their searches by specific values are able to retain the values in their searches in their current session. This can be achieved in the Active Filters section using the Lock icon.

Harvard1 and MLA8 Citation
Harvard1 and MLA8 are now available as part of the default citation styles under the citation features in the record actions menu.

Documentation and Webinars
We will publish the Third Party changes to the new interface for each release in the Developer Network<https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/other/nuiThirdParties>  in order to allow community developers to track changes in the coming release.

More information about the August release can be found in the Ex Libris Knowledge Center:

*         Knowledge Center > Primo  > Release Notes<https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/2017>

*         Knowledge Center > Primo  > Product Documentation > Highlights<http://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Highlights>
Updated versions of both documents will be published on July 23, 2017.

We also invite you to attend one of the following Webinar sessions.
Note: Registration is NOT required in order to attend the webinar. Just save one of the attached meeting invitations to your calendar.

*  Primo August Release Webinar<https://exlibris.webex.com/exlibris/onstage/g.php?MTID=e3b9e73c12c6dd05c95b0b480503956db> - APAC and Middle East
July 19 at  1:30 PM Beijing, 8:30 AM Jerusalem,  3:30 PM Sydney

*  Primo August Release Webinar<https://exlibris.webex.com/exlibris/onstage/g.php?MTID=eeec698c820abedf19b925b7d3d39f4c5> - America and Europe
July 19 at  3 PM London, 4 PM Berlin, 10 AM EDT

We look forward to seeing you at the August Release webinars!
Primo Product Management Team





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