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.
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.
Echo Park Ex Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Conference 2026 eluna-conf-planning@exlibrisusers.orgTechnical Issues?
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