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Discovery Primo VE Committee: April 12, 2023

Members present: Andrew Belongea (COL), Marlee Graser (SIE), Aimee Walker (JOL), Lindsey Skaggs (ISU), Allan Berry (UIC), Rachelle Stivers (HRT), Matt Short (NIU)

Members absent: Colin Koteles (COD)

CARLI Staff Present: Jessica Gibson

1. Review and approve previous minutes

  • Minutes approved

2. Sub-Committees

  • Next steps?
  • Dedup/FRBR
    • Not much to update; diving back into the literature
    • Testing rules in network zone, to suppress FRBR dedup
      • Hard to configure what subfields
      • In progress
    • Waiting for work from CARLI
    • Testing will occur in sandbox before prod
  • Local fields
    • Scheduled sub-group meeting.
  • Local resource types
    • Attended Technical Services committee
      • Showed indication rules for finding records incorrectly coded for nominal resource type
      • May tweak some rules, e.g. DVD
        • a. Problem with DVD check: nothing in the record: needs 300 or 500 (538?) field
        • b. Ambiguous re: Blu-Ray causing false positives. Not the end of the world. Looking for a cleaner method
      • Ted spearheading cleanup rules
      • Definitions ready to go live, just doing cleanup
    • Ted did some training for Tech Services committee
      • A bit overwhelming
      • Working to integrate task into shared environment
      • Follow up meeting occurred
  • Usability best practices
    • Laura Spradlin usability
      • Potentially pulling together Primo VE usability testing
      • Heartland Community College, Illinois Wesleyan, SIU
      • Laura testing was on website, not on Primo, so not a good fit
    • Original concept may not work
      • Amy checked with ListServ, but not any response
    • Another meeting on the horizon.
      • June webinar still a possibility?
      • Target date for follow up - early June?
    • Reevaluate what part two is going to be? Not much discussion thus far.
      • Look for other institutions or consortiums outside of CARLI/I-share doing usability testing.
      • 3/6 sent information to Primo VE interest group.
      • Consider if other institution is part of a consortium environment.
      • Potential other institutions to reach out to?
        • a. Ask through ExLibris Alma listserv
        • b. Code4Lib lists (Midwest and National)
      • If we can’t get someone to speak, look for other freely available presentations.
      • At Ontorio webinar on accessibility, NYU group shared a lot of changes they made due to accessibility concerns. Lindsey can share the information.
      • Sounds like a literature review for a research group. Show changes people have made at our individual institutions. What it looks like for each institution.
      • Allan and Lindsey putting out a call for other institutions sharing information on their accessibility changes.
      • ELUNA Learns webinar on accessibility has good content on this issue.

3. Ex Libris Idea Exchange

  • Idea list in our Drive folder
    • Lindsey has updated her graphic on instructions on how to register and vote.
      • Sent out to her colleagues.
      • Go same route with PrimoVE listserv would probably be next step.
      • Please send out to your own institution.
    • Alma Staff Consortial Group meeting
      • Washington Resource Library Consortium, a consortium like ours.
      • They do a PrimoVE idea of the month and focus on one issue.
        • i. Send Lindsey’s graphic every time with an “idea of the month”?
        • ii. Allan gets a good response from colleagues when he passes along changes made to Primo.
        • iii. How many and how often?
      • Start with focusing on the top idea(s), library card issue?
      • Way of tracking CARLI impact on voting? Snapshotting?
      • Next steps - share the graphic at your own institution.
        • a. Lindsey is going to send graphic out to PrimoVE interest group.
        • b. Encourage issues #1,2,3

4. New Business

  • Aimee raised the terrible issue with linking in the CDI. Libkey as a potential solution to improve linking.
    • Do we want to take a look at this?
    • Libkey - like a link resolver, supposed to have improved linking.
    • Libkey Nomad - direct users to library access from other platforms like Google Scholar
    • Does direct linking very well
    • UIC - have had Libkey for a while. Positive feedback on it.
    • Cost. Joliet Junior College - cost was under $5,000.
    • Have to send holdings file monthly
    • Cleaner linking to open access material
      • Helpful with hybrid journals where only some content is open access