CARLI Recommendations on Local Resource Types in Primo VE for I-Share

Revised: Sept. 13, 2024

CARLI Recommendation on Local Resource Types

I-Share institutions should not create any Local Resources Types in their IZs without consulting CARLI Support.  If your institution would like to recommend a Local Resource Type that can be established at the consortial level for all I-Share institutions to use, please contact CARLI Support.

Plans for New Local Resource Types

The CARLI Discovery Primo VE Committee is investigating how Local Resource Types behave in our consortial network environment and will provide best practices to I-Share institutions on how to use them safely.

The Committee has identified several new Local Resource Types that will be established at the consortial level:

The Committee has identified the following new Secondary Local Resource Types that will be established at the consortial level:

What is the Resource Type in Primo VE?

The Resource Type in Primo VE comes from an item's bibliographic record. The Resource Type displays in small, gray text at the top of the Brief Record display, as in these examples:

It also display as one of the default Facets in Primo VE, as in this example:

The Resource Type field is constructed based on existing bibliographic fields such as the LDR and 008 for MARC records, and the discovery:resourceType, dcterms:type, and dc:type fields for Dublin Core records.

Ex Libris documentation on Primo VE Resource Type Mapping describes the out-of-the-box resource types that are available and will display in Primo VE on bibliographic record results from your Institution Zone (IZ) and the Network Zone (NZ).

Ex Libris documentation on Resource Types in CDI describes which resource types will display in Primo VE on results from the Central Discovery Index (CDI).

Local Resource Types allow you to create resource types that are configured locally and are not included using the out-of-the-box rules cited above. However, Ex Libris documentation on Configuring Local Resource Types in Primo VE states:

"For consortia, local resource types must be defined in both the IZ and NZ when IZ records are linked to the NZ."

Therefore, CARLI and the CARLI Discovery Primo VE Committee are investigating how best to use them in our shared network environment. Please contact CARLI Support if you have any questions.