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It won't- everything will transfer over. You might notice a slight cosmetic change on that page, but that's it.
It will not. You will be able to continue requesting/receiving materials via ILL as usual.
It won't!
Honestly it will look pretty much the same. As seen in the below screenshots, the landing page in VE and classic have the same layout. Here's a screenshot of VE in our testing environment:
And here it is as it is now, in Classic:
A little bit. For power users who are interested in the details of searching functionality, we encourage you to look at ExLibris's Primo VE documentation:
The new catalog can be perused prelaunch at http://library.bc.edu/newcatalog.
Primo is the system that provides an interface to our library catalog. When you do a search, browse the results, and look at your library account- you are using Primo. It is more formally termed a 'discovery layer', as it helps you discover the library's resources, and is produced by Ex Libris. We are currently using Primo Classic, and are upgrading to the newest version, Primo VE.
Ex Libris released Primo VE in mid-2018 and as such it has now been widely tested and adopted by other institutions. It significantly improves upon Primo Classic, our current version of Primo, without disrupting user expectations. The catalog will basically look the same! This initial upgrade will mostly affect the underlying system itself, not the styles and customizations that you are used to. It provides the scaffolding that will let us undertake more enhancement work throughout the fall and beyond.
