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Database Discovery: From a Migration Project to a Content Strategy

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Date created
2020-04
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Author: Wong, Sandra
Abstract
After migrating to Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo for its integrated library system (ILS) and discovery layer, library staff at Simon Fraser University (SFU) maintained duplicate database information in a locally developed electronic resources management (ERM) system known as the CUFTS ERM for fifteen months. The CUFTS ERM provided the data for the library’s public-facing database list known as the CUFTS resource database (CRDB). A database search function had been on Ex Libris’s Primo roadmap for product development and was announced six months after the library went live with Alma and Primo. However, the new Primo database search function lacked the ability to replace the CRDB. Members of the library’s ILS Steering Committee who managed Alma and Primo were concerned about significant negative impacts on end-users if the library adopted the Primo database search function to replace the CRDB. The steering committee formed a task group to investigate options for creating a database list from Alma records to reduce duplication of staff time and effort, and systems resources, and to replicate the main functions of the existing CRDB for end-user discovery and access.
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Wong, S. (2020). Database Discovery: From a Migration Project to a Content Strategy. Library Resources & Technical Services 64 (2): 72-88. https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.64n2.72
Publication title
Library Resources & Technical Services
Document title
Database Discovery: From a Migration Project to a Content Strategy
Date
2020
Volume
64
Issue
2
First page
72
Last page
88
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Yes
Language
English
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