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Discovery and E-Resources Guide

This Libguide contains documentation, training, and configuration information on FLVC's PrimoVE Discovery tool.

Primo Office Hours

Starting April 2023, Primo Office Hours are now held only once a month on the 3rd Monday @ at 1pm. All are welcome to join.

Meeting Link

Use the Primo Office Hours Padlet to ask questions, suggest ideas for presentations, and collaborate with colleagues across the state!

Special Sessions:

10-16-23: GES for Digitization/Chapter Requests in ILLiad

7-17-23: Hiding Things in Primo

Thanks for joining us! Tricia Elton and Pauline Cline from FLVC and Jenna Miller from Santa Fe College showed a few ways to hide features in Primo. 

Recording / Slides

Resources

5-15-23: "Bound-With" Volumes in Alma/Primo

Faye Mazzia (University of Central Florida) discussed how UCF set up "bound-with" volumes to check out together without needing to scan the barcodes of individual parts.

Recording/Slides

2-6-23: Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) in Alma/Primo

Please note that an initial court ruling in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive has ruled against the concept of controlled digital lending. An appeal is forthcoming.

Jenna Miller (Santa Fe College) showed how to configure controlled digital lending (CDL) within Alma using Access Rights and Collections.

There are copyright limitations for using CDL, so please review the recording and resources prior to setting up your own workflow. The main limitations is that this can only be used for titles that can't already be ordered/accessed in an electronic format and that there is a 1:1 physical/digital ratio; print copies must be removed from circulation/use.

Recording

Resources

12-5-22: Collections in Primo

FLVC staff did a brief run through on how to create and add items to a collection.

Consortia members showed and spoke about what they have done with collections. Presentations by:

  • Jenna Miller (Santa Fe College)
  • Alexis Carlson (Indian River State College)
  • Danielle Rosenthal (Florida Gulf Coast University)
  • Robin Chan (University of Central Florida)

 

Resources

Tips

  • Thumbnail size for collections is 380 x 190 pixels.
  • Add &showPnx=true to the end of an individual record URL to see how Primo interprets MARC and allow for display customization (more on Pnx)
  • CSS to add the statement of responsibility (245 $c) is available at Display Author in Collections Page
  • 500 GB total storage