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The second session I attended this morning was a demonstration of Primo by ExLibris. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this is a new resource discovery and delivery product that is coming to the market. Its competition includes AquaBrowser and Grokker. Its purpose is to provide an interface that incorporates the varied information users want to see and provide a way for them to participate through comments and reviews.

Two development partners also gave presentations on their experiences and progress in the partnership. One is University of Minnesota Libraries which is an Aleph site, and the second was Vanderbilt, which is a Unicorn site. Both are satisfied with the development so far, however, the product is not in production yet. ExLibris is starting to program a pipe for Voyager.

I won’t bore you all with the product details, but you can be sure we’ll be taking a closer look at it and other products as well as open source possibilities to improve the way our patrons find, access and use our resources.