Alma/PrimoVE November Feature Release Overview

Nov 14 2024 | 2 - 3pm


Agenda:

Intro/General Updates (Nicole)

  • New Feature Promotion Functionality
  • Analytics
    • Shared Users Notifications
    • Table View for Analytics Objects
    • New Fields related to AI 
      • Titles > Title Measures
      • Bibliographic Details

Acquisitions (Ginny)

Primo VE (Lynn)

  • Enhancements to Research Assistant
  • Including External Resources in Collection Discovery – New configuration
  • More precise EXACT SEARCH for CDI – Turned ON by default
  • Enrichment from Authority – MARC 655 will be enriched into Genre field and excluded from Subject
  • New Discovery Experience (NDE) – General release May 2025
    • Can register to become early adopter if ready to start working on it in December—if not, gradual limited access in February 2025 (with next Feature Release?)
  • Primo VE November 2024 What’s New session (56 min.)

Resource Management (Liz)

  • New Title Search Experience
    • Ex Libris Webinar (1 hr.)
    • Highlights Video (7 min.)
    • To turn on new title searches, click your user icon, select Feature Rollout Preferences, and activate for New Title Search toggle
  • Searching Bibliographic Records by Language Code
    • This search will not be completely reliable until the semi-annual indexing is completed
  • New AI Metadata Assistance in Preview Mode
    • Opt-In: Configuration>Resources>Cataloging>AIS Usage Profile set to Yes
    • User Role needed: AI Assisted Cataloging
    • Highlights Video (2:27 min)

Fulfillment/Resource Sharing (Tina)

  • Manage Patron Services New UI 
    • Ex Libris Webinar (1 hr.)
    • Highlights Video (6:33 min.)
    • To turn on the new Manage Patron Services UI, click on your user icon in the persistent bar, select Feature Rollout Preferences and activate the New Circulation Desk UI toggle.
  • Manually Set Patron Role Expiry in Circulation Desk 
  • Library Inheritance of Calendar from Institution 


Discussion/Q&A