We have recently had feedback from Ex Libris that they are not planning support for third party discovery tools for a couple of years.  We were asking about using Blacklight.  They seem open to the idea in principle, but are clearly aiming to promote Primo as the sole means of access for a while yet.  If anyone has attempted to layer a third party tool over Alma, though, it would be interesting to hear about.

Regards,

Chris
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On 4 Dec 2013, at 04:00, CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote:

Date:    Tue, 3 Dec 2013 11:06:42 -0500
From:    Ken Varnum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Discovery layer for Alma

Has anyone built (or is working on)  a local discovery layer on top of Ex
Libris' Alma? I'm thinking of VuFind or other front ends to the Alma API.



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Date:    Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:31:10 +0000
From:    Demian Katz <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: Discovery layer for Alma

I haven't heard about any VuFind/Alma projects yet, but I'm copying this thread to vufind-tech in case anyone there knows something that I don't.

- Demian

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

Has anyone built (or is working on)  a local discovery layer on top of Ex
Libris' Alma? I'm thinking of VuFind or other front ends to the Alma API.



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Date:    Tue, 3 Dec 2013 19:21:36 +0000
From:    Demian Katz <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: FW: [VuFind-Tech] [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

Passing this back to CODE4LIB from vufind-tech....

- Demian

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Rykhus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

Hello,

Alma does not have any sort of OPAC. If you run Alma, you search your
library records through Primo. So you could say there is already one in
place.

I'm not sure how patron empowerment works. I would assume that if there
is such a thing in Alma, it would use the Restful API just as in Aleph.

al

On 12/03/2013 10:31 AM, Demian Katz wrote:
I haven't heard about any VuFind/Alma projects yet, but I'm copying this thread to vufind-tech in case anyone there knows something that I don't.

- Demian

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken
Varnum
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Alma

Has anyone built (or is working on)  a local discovery layer on top of Ex
Libris' Alma? I'm thinking of VuFind or other front ends to the Alma API.



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