nyu new-york historical society libraries

HKBrown
new to zotero,just spent some time converting from endnote, these forums are a great help. very basic question here as I begin bringing in new references I'm trying to import a record from nyu/new-york historical society's bobst library cat. and it is missing some fields after the import (call number, library name, etc.) whereas a similar record from LOC comes in very complete. also noticed the zotero icon is faint on the first catalogue but appears darker in the LOC cat. Wish I knew more about translators. http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?ct=display&doc=nyu_aleph001285559&indx=1&dum=true&dscnt=0&indx=1&srt=rank&tab=nyhs&ct=search&frbg=&vid=NYHS&vl%281UI0%29=contains&vl%28265462384UI1%29=all_items&fn=search&dstmp=1290008371055&vl%2848132157UI0%29=any&vl%28freeText0%29=cozzens&mode=Basic&scp.scps=scope%3A%28%22NYHS%22%29%2Cscope%3A%28GEN%29
  • adamsmith
    OK - let's continue here:
    my answer from the other thread:

    The data you get depends on the data provided by the library, which tends to be most thorough and most complete from LoC (other items from NYU do import with the LC call number).

    The type of symbol in the URL bar usually refers to the item type Zotero recognizes (newspaper, blog, magazine, book, article all have different symbols) - looks like Primo (the NYU catalogue system) masks this, but since it gets the actual item type right I wouldn't worry.
  • HKBrown
    OK. Is there anything I can do to improve what appears in the Library Catalog field in my zotero library? right now everything imports as Primo.
  • ajlyon
    That's a weakness in the current Primo translator. It will be fixed in the next version, which has been brewing for some time but isn't ready yet. There is debate as to whether we should be using Primo's unpredictable PNX format or the also not-so-hot RIS export, and that unresolved question has been holding up a new version for about 6 months now.

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