At the beginning of this year, we announced a new feature in our institutional repository: a feedback form. It’s used to gather input from users of the repository to understand how access to these works benefits […]
The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 03/01/2016 and 03/31/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at […]
When you click on the “Journal” facet after doing a search, it almost always displays about 20 journal titles. However, in a search with thousands of results, you are obviously retrieving many more journals than […]
The following list of vendors restricts access to their collections (even to just the metadata, the information that is displayed in the search results) unless the user is on-campus or signed into […]
The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 02/01/2016 and 02/29/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at […]
Applying the principles of user experience to their findings from user studies and search log analyses, Ex Libris will soon release a new user interface for their discovery system, Primo (aka “OneSearch”). What […]
Recently, the Office of Library Services has made improvements to the way the centrally-hosted EZproxy servers handle authentication so that they restrict expired patrons from having access to electronic […]
The year 2015 marked the first full calendar year during which we had our discovery system, OneSearch, up and running across the CUNY libraries. It was a big year, with over 3.7 million searches performed across […]
I think the default browser is Firefox throughout the library and I believe they’re using a Firefox-based browser (maybe IceWeasel/IceCat?) on their look-up terminals.
It may be explained by look-up terminals located at some of the libraries. For example, Brooklyn College has a bank of 8-10 of them in the reference area and I believe they’re running a Linux-based OS. The OPAC […]
According to the Primo back office guide: “For guests and unsigned users, these settings are retained for the session only.” (In our case, a session is 30 minutes.)
As of mid-August, OneSearch users have the ability to personalize their results right from within the search screen. (Previously, this was only possible from within “My Account” in the user’s personal settings.) […]
There are over 2,100 Primo customers worldwide. Want to know how some of them have customized their discovery tool? Check out the list of Primo sites on the Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) website! Some […]
The beginning of the semester brings to the library thousands of new students who need to activate their barcodes in order to use library services. What if we told you the loading of active barcodes could be […]