Primo at Northwestern – Story of Local Development

Abstract

Abstract: The Northwestern Primo environment includes numerous locally created developments, as well as utilizing the developments posted on ELCommons by other Primo developers. We will demonstrate what “development enhancements” we have created ourselves, and then show what developments we have implemented that we obtained from ELCommons. Some of the local developments we will demonstrate include our Blackboard/Primo integration environment, our local Primo web interface (not using the Primo default interface), our unique solution to further enhance FRBR-ization, Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) harvesting development with our Fedora-based repositories and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) development with our archival finding aids, harvesting of non-Northwestern collections, and our mobile Primo environment. We will conclude with discussing how our institution uses ELCommons to further enhance their Library Primo environment.