The Library Admin tool is a tool that connects a book in a collection in Alma (Alma is a Library Service Platform, Alma is used by all universities in Norway and is also widely used in other parts of the world.) to a shelf location in MazeMap. The illustration bellow shows an overview of the technical solution from the slides.

You can find the Lib Admin page here. You will need to login with the usual MazeMap user. As admin user you will get up all the libraries we have using the tool. However, a customer will only see the libraries that are connected to their campus. As for now, the Lib Admin interface is only in Norwegian and English.

How it works for the user

The user goes into Oria (Oria is the name that the BIBSYS consortium use for their implementation of Primo. Primo is a Discovery tool facing the end user) for example from this entrance, and they search for a book in Oria. When they have found the book they want and the book is available in the library, the can press the button Locate as shown here:

When clicking on Locate a new tab opens in the browser and they will be directed to MazeMap and the shelf they need to go to to find the book.

How to link the collections to a shelf

Before this setup works the Primo admin at the library needs to do some configuration. You need to configure the template for the location map link. ExLibris explains how this can be done for Primo here. You need to add this url  https://api.mazemap.com/api/libadmin/lookupbook?location_code={location_code}&call_number={call_number} in the URL template.

NB: We are working on including more formats to accommodate for a wider variety of systems.

When this is done the Locate button will work if the connection is done in Lib Admin. This is done by doing the following:

Go to Lib Admin and create the libraries at your campus by clicking on the + button.

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Click then on one of the libraries that you have created and you will get the possibility to create collections. Add the name of the collection, the location code in Alma and the sorting system the collection is using.

The location code is found in the URL that you get up when you hold your mouse over the location button. An explanation for how to find it in the BIBSYS consortium is available in the user interface when you click on the question mark.

NB: This might be different for different implementations of Alma and Primo.

The sorting systems MazeMap support in the first version of Lib Admin is the following:

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It is possible to hide a collection in MazeMap. This means that the link will not be shown for the end user, but the librarians can get the location in Lib Admin.

After a collection is created it is possible to link this collection to shelves. This is done by clicking on the collection and then the + button. You will get a pop up and can create the title of the shelf, the sorting start and the sorting end. The sorting start end will be validated against the sorting system you are using for this collection.

When you have created the shelf you will get information about this shelf:

Link tag from Lib admin

In MazeMap we use a link tag to identify and link to a shelf POI. When a student it searching for a book MazeMap will check what shelf the book is in and then send the student using this link to the POI in MazeMap. It is therefore important that we add the link tag in MazeMap ). If we don't do that the Locate button in Primo will not work.

In Lib admin we generate a link tag based on the name of the shelf and the library collection. This link tag needs to be copied into the Map Editor in MazeMap. To do this, log into admin.mazemap.com and choose Point of Interest in the menu:

Copy the MazeMap tag in the Lib admin and paste it in the Manual override. The value is saved when you press Enter on your keyboard. However do remember to go to Run update and press Start Publish Process to make sure that the changes are pushed to production.

It is possible to test and see if the shelf link is funtioning in Lib Admin by selecting the MazeMap POI in the top menu.

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