CSU Library Website Customization

Resource Recommender Implementation

The Resource Recommender service allows you to recommend the following resources based on searchable tags that you configure in the Primo Back Office: database, website, person, library information, library guide.

Initially we considered to use to improve returned results. For example, Harry Potter books are not even on the first page. 

Implement this is very easy, just follow the tutorial

Resource Recommender

We activated Database, LibGuides, and Person. Source files are here. 

1. database.xls
2. person.xls
3. library_guide.xls

Label Customization

Because we added Harry Potter to the recommender bar, we can't call it database as the default settings. We want change the default label from recommended database to recommended resource. 

1. Code Tables -> Front End -> Resource Recommender Codes 
2. Click Customize link to change the Description field. Save and deploy the change. 

Final Look 

Harry Potter Example

Course Suggestion Example

Problems we encountered

1. We used librarian's photo from LibGuides. Some photos were cut off from the circle display for unknown reason. Our solution is make these photos in square and placed on a local web server and then link to them direcetly. 

2. However more problems with icons came up. Those icons live on our local web server, display fine on Windows but not on Mac. 

We loaded those icons on this page (in LibGuides) and then link them from Primo. The trick works!

The fixed version on Mac