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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Primo
We have recently had feedback from Ex Libris that they are not planning support
for third party discovery tools for a couple of years. We were asking about
using Blacklight. They seem open to the idea in principle, but are clearly
Everything I've heard from Ex Libris is that Alma is discovery layer agnostic,
though they understandably want you to use Primo since it's their product.
Perhaps the differentiation is that they won't host third-party discovery
layers at this time? If you wanted to use Blacklight/VuFind/etc. it
We have recently had feedback from Ex Libris that they are not planning support
for third party discovery tools for a couple of years. We were asking about
using Blacklight. They seem open to the idea in principle, but are clearly
aiming to promote Primo as the sole means of access for a
If this is an official fact, in my opinion modularity and freedom in IT for
libraries are available only through open source software applications.
SB
On 04/dic/2013, at 10.10, Chris L Awre wrote:
We have recently had feedback from Ex Libris that they are not planning
support for third party
At Cornell we are developing a Blacklight based discovery interface over
Voyager (currently in beta [1]). We are planning to migrate the LMS to
Alma yet provide continuity in our discovery environment through the
Blacklight based discovery interface. IMO, the notion of separating the
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