Using Primo in the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Primo is a cloud technology based discovery and delivery system that can provide the full and intuitive retrieval of library collections. In November 2015, after almost 1 year test period the library made the system accessible for the users. During the test period the most important technical and database problems were solved. The home page of the service is the interface of the services of the library at the same time. Accordingly the latest news, information regarding the query system and the document delivery services are located on the page. Six scopes were defined for the search: the catalogue, the image collection and the repository of the library, the subscribed databases (and a few free one), the catalogues of the institutions of the academy and some main national catalogues with their full text documents. The paper illustrated with screenshots presents in detail the operation of the software: the different ways of searching, the structure of the search result lists, the data view and the copy management. Besides the paper presents the facets that group the results and the available convenience options, too. In the last few lines the author – summing up the experiences of the last one and a half year – evaluates the usefulness of the software in a scientific research library.