When we signed on for a short-window, small-college, cohort-supported move from Aleph to Primo-Alma, we knew post-migration metadata cleanup was inevitable. But even after the dust settled, one nagging problem persisted: why were so many of our single-volume monographs displaying in Primo as if they were serials, series, or works in parts? Learn how the effort to cure this puzzling defect morphed into a low-cost, long-term project to correct and improve item display and enhance underlying item-level metadata across the catalog -- using only native or inexpensive tools and no programmers from third-party contractors or campus IT.
Small College, Big Metadata Cleanup
Alma, Primo
Better familiarity with native Alma and low-cost third-party tools for in-house post-migration metadata cleanup in Alma-Primo
Exposure to techniques for post-migration item-level metadata remediation in Alma-Primo
Apr 30, 2026 11:15 AM - 12:00 Noon(America/Los_Angeles)
Venue : Echo Park
20260430T111520260430T1200America/Los_AngelesSmall College, Big Cleanup: In-House Post-Migration Metadata Remediation in Alma-PrimoWhen we signed on for a short-window, small-college, cohort-supported move from Aleph to Primo-Alma, we knew post-migration metadata cleanup was inevitable. But even after the dust settled, one nagging problem persisted: why were so many of our single-volume monographs displaying in Primo as if they were serials, series, or works in parts? Learn how the effort to cure this puzzling defect morphed into a low-cost, long-term project to correct and improve item display and enhance underlying item-level metadata across the catalog -- using only native or inexpensive tools and no programmers from third-party contractors or campus IT.Echo ParkEx Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Conference 2026eluna-conf-planning@exlibrisusers.org
