Access 2008, Day 4 - Moving Forward Together: a Consortial Discovery Layer

A look at Primo at TUG.  The point of the exercise was not to replace the catalogue outright.  However a major criteria included in the search was that this new OPAC tool needed to be able to harvest data in ways other then Z39.50.  So XML & OAI for sure.    It looks like some schools have gone the way of the vendor solution for the discover layer instead of Open Source.

TUG seems to be a consortia within a consortia that has really moved forward with the idea of collaboration and user services.