Discovery Feedback - ULMS August 2018 Meeting

Saved records

• Limits on the total you can save and see

• Check for active cases

Relevancy of results

• Librarians: “a lot of crap comes back.”

  • Mismatch in expectations vs. actual results

• Students don’t seem to complain as much

Known item searching

• Changes to author searching may have negatively impacted this -- “Curious George"
  How learning works - known issue 

• Issues with boosting?

• More fundamental issues?

Not all 5XX fields being indexed

• e.g., 546 Language (text entry)

• 041, language leader also

• ‘nai’ for small native American tribes

No control of norm rules in Primo VE

There's still a lot of work needed from Ex Libris in order to support consortia.

Most likely 2 years before CSU might consider migration to Primo VE.

Resource types

• Audio vs. video and sub-types in the facets

Configuration / Vendor

Primo Central combines audio and video into a single type called media.

David Walker addressed issue with Ex Libris. Ex Libris working on bigger changes to Primo and Summon indexing.

CSU will need to push Ex Libris to split audio and video

Delays with synching data

• Turning off collections in PCI

• Primo VE to the rescue?

• Availability

Discoverability for when we don’t have a record

• Books and articles

• Recommended options via links

Getting more metadata into PCI

• e.g., MLA with EDS

• Gale metadata with poor linking

U Resolver menu

• Availability is too complex

• Request hidden until you login

Building our own link resolver to replace Uresolver

Should allow for integrating 'one button' resource sharing functionality

Ebsco deep search

• Resource types really limited

• Book chapters, dissertations

• Messes with ILL

• some issues are in Primo Central

Configuration

Vendor (PCI)

• Data is just not there and not a CSS issue
• May be oversight for consortia

• lightweight list sharing tool
• Leganto not suitable for all campuses