- Working Group Members
- Primo Mailing Lists
- Mail link to escalate your Primo support cases
- Search the Primo Idea Exchange
- Primo & Primo VE Roadmaps
- List of Primo Sites
- Ex Libris Search page
ELUNA learns 2024
The 2024 ELUNA learns series will be held from September – December on Wednesdays from 1-4 pm Eastern. All events will be recorded and are available on demand.
Membership in ELUNA provides staff at member institutions (consortia office or individual library memberships) with free registration for 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.
Enhancements Voting 2024
The 2024 Primo Enhancements voting process is now complete! The following are the Top3 requests.
| Rank | ID | Title | Votes | Points |
| 1 | 9021 | A better DEI Term Tool (VE/BO) | 3283 | — |
| 2 | 8756 | Primo VE Facet for physical availability, configurable for locations / policy (VE) | 3064 | — |
| 3 | 8871 | Primo VE Advanced search – Exact – Title: $a alone must find results (VE) | 2953 | — |
| Total | — |
We’re happy to note that Ex Libris Primo Product Management agreed to add the following two items to the 2024 Roadmap without requiring any community points:
| Rank | ID | Title | Votes | Points |
| 5 | 8157 | Preserve the formatting of citations copied from Primo (VE/BO) | 3503 | n/a 15 |
| 14 | 8141 | Add ability to configure the display at the item level and the location level in the GetIt section (VE) | 1102 | n/a 10 |
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.
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.
Primo Customization and Developer Resources
- 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.
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.
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.
If you have updates or corrections to this page, please contact James Day at [email protected].