Getting More out of MARC with Primo: Strategies for Display, Search and Faceting

Getting More out of MARC with Primo: Strategies for Display, Search and Faceting

Going beyond author, title, subject and notes, there are many new (or newly-revitalized) fields and subfields in the MARC 21 format that support more structured data and could be beneficial to users if exposed in a discovery interface. In this article, we describe how the Orbis Cascade Alliance has...

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Main Authors: Kelley McGrath, Lesley Lowery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2018-08-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/13600
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