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2025-2027 ELUNA Primo Working Group Nominations
The candidate statements are provided by the nominees and presented here in random
order. Please read the descriptions for all 9 candidates before voting. The ballot will be
distributed to the primary email of record for ELUNA members.
Read the Primo Working Group Candidates Statements.
Enhancements Voting 2025
The 2025 Primo Enhancements voting process is now complete! The following are the Top 5 requests.
| Rank | ID and Title | Votes | Points |
| 1 | PENH-I-28298: Support the use of wildcards in phrase searching with quotation marks | 8,991 | 50 |
| 2 | AENH-I-36385: Allow Online Services Order to sort by current access | 6.486 | 40 |
| 3 | PENH-I-28362: Research Assistant and local records | 6.206 | 50 |
| 4 | PENH-I-28330: Need efficient way to test discovery norm rules | 5,031 | 30 |
| 5 | PENH-I-28360: Primo VE home page: edit box | 4,800 | 30 |
| Total | 200 |
We’re happy to highlight the following four enhancement requests being developed without requiring any community points:
| 1st Round Rank | ID and Title |
| 2 | PENH-I-28385: Remove incremental lazy load for Primo VE brief results when the Number of Results is set to 25 and 50 |
| 9 | PENH-I-28314: Automated SSL certificate management by supporting ACME-like services |
| 13 | PENH-I-28355: Ability to search across sub-collections within a collection |
| 20 | PENH-I-28294: Book cover images for generic FRBR results |
The Product Development Collaboration Agreement states that Ex Libris will develop the successful enhancements within one year, which customarily aligns to the IGeLU conference held in September 2024.
ELUNA learns 2024
The 2024 ELUNA learns series was held from September – December. All events were recorded and are available on demand.
Membership in ELUNA provides staff at member institutions (consortia office or individual library memberships) with free access to all ELUNA learns sessions held in 2024. Non-members will be invoiced $25.00 for access to the webinar.
Visit the ELUNA learns 2024 website.
Tips for Primo Enhancement Requests
Communications about the yearly Community Enhancement Requests and Voting (CERV) process including deadlines and voting periods are sent out through the Primo listserv.
View the “Goodbye NERS & Hello CERV!: What You Need to Know to Participate in the 2025 Primo Enhancement Process” presentation.
Access the presentation slides.
- IGeLU and ELUNA Enhancements Portal User Manual
- Guidelines for Creating an Actionable Enhancement Request
- How to Submit an Enhancement Request in CERV
- Webinar Recording: Enhancements – Make ’em Sparkle (24:10), 1/28/2021
Voting is limited to the designated institutional representative based on information present in the ELUNA member profile on WildApricot. For information about membership and assistance with eligibility inquiries, see the ELUNA Voting for Enhancements page.
Primo Customization and Developer Resources
The Primo Working Group provides support and resources for working with Primo customizations and developing add-ons for Primo.
Drew Parker gave a great presentation at ELUNA 2023 Developers’ Day+ on lots of places to find Primo customizations: Finding Primo Customization Ideas to _Borrow__ A Time-Honored Path toward Progress
- One on one support (contact list)
- Slack channel
- Developer network
- Devenv
- CSS Selectors Reference
- Useful bookmarklets compiled by IGeLU members
- Primo Views – ‘community hacks from around the web’ for Primo customizations
- Useful Primo Customizations, a presentation by Jenna Miller at the FLVC Virtual Conference, November 9, 2022.
- Other repositories
- Orbis Cascade Alliance Primo VE Toolkit
- California State University Primo VE customizations and how-tos
- State Universities of New York (SUNY) Libraries Primo VE customization instructions, videos; SUNY Libraries FAQ
- CARLI (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois) Primo VE customizations
The former MetaLib/MetaLib+ PWG pages are still available but are no longer being maintained.
DEI-Related Changes in Alma and Primo
The Primo Working Group hosted an informal discussion on making DEI-related changes in Alma and Primo on Friday, December 16, 2022. See the presentation slides.
If you have updates or corrections to this page, please contact James Day at james.day@erau.edu.