1. Sophia Katsarska Eighth AMICAL Conference Beirut, April 2011
Using PRIMO for creating NALIS Union Catalog – a gateway to Bulgarian academic libraries
Sophia Katsarska
Eighth AMICAL Conference
Beirut, April 2011

2. NALIS project (www.nalis.bg)
Started June 2009
Founders
NALIS members - 13
Records –

3. NALIS major goals Union catalog Integration Collaboration Digitization
Retroconversion
Training
Quality

4. Exlibris Primo Discovery and Delivery Solution
Connect end users with the information they need
Provides one-stop shop
Control of the search options, display of results and relevance ranking
Multilingual and multicultural environment
Supports a range of consortial models

5. Interface Flexible, allows extensive library customization
Basic template
Different “look and feel” to a different member within a consortium

6. Primo Search Single search box A keyword search
Advanced search capabilities
Relevancy ranking
Duplicate records merged together

7. Results list Availability information
Status, Call number and Location information
Link to external services – Amazon, WorldCat
Description – abstract and table of content
Reviews and tags

8. Faceted navigation and search refinement
Facets defined by the library itself
Customization of facet categories
Peer-review filter

12. Remote Search View Separate tab Built-in Federated search
Preselected “quicksets”
Full-text filter
SFX deliver full-text

14. DigiTool incorporation

15. Additional features Spelling suggestions Embedding FRBRization
ing, printing, exporting options
Alerts and RSS feeds
E-shelf and Full My account integration
Statistics

17. Behind the Scenes Customer profile Guidance and technical support
Training and documentation
Records in XML
Enhanced PNX
Updates

18. Future Expanding Embedding Digitization Customization
Individual branding
Promotion

19. Conclusion
Respond to users’ needs for an easy, fast and effective search and discovery of information in local and remote sources
Designed to cope with consortium set-ups
Built in widely used applications
Accessible using mobile devices
Functionality expected by today’s information seekers.

20. Thank you for your attention!