primo at tug: using primo in a consortial environment

Primo at TUG: Using Primo in a Consortial Environment

Presented by Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo LibraryALA Midwinter, Seattle, 2013

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TriUniversity Group (TUG)

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Waterloo (2011) Guelph (2011) Laurier (2012)

# of Undergrad Students

28,200 18,296 15,132

Library employee FTE

122 95.4 56

ACQ Budget 7.5 Million (2012) 6.8 Million 3.4 Million

Quick Statistics

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Photo credit: Alison Hitchens, ELUNA 2012

Sharing Expertise (and workload!)

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Common User Experience…

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• Search scopes

• Calculated availability

…With Some Differences

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Restrictions

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Primo home page - Guelph

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Note: highlighted area common to all 3 institutions

Primo home page - Laurier

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Primo home page - Waterloo

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Accessing Primo - Guelph

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Accessing Primo - Laurier

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Accessing Primo - Waterloo

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Configuring individual views

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Configuring tables by institution

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Viewing individual reports

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Involving TUG Staff

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Shared Communications

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/newsatlib/120906/primo.html

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Collaborative Training

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Case Study: Primo Central Index Trial

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/newsatlib/110512/primocentraltrial.html

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Questions?Alison Hitchens

Cataloguing & Metadata LibrarianUniversity of Waterloo LibraryPrimo Team LeadTriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG)

ahitchen@uwaterloo.ca