Project aims, objectives and outputs

This is a blog about the Coventry University Primo Implementation Project. This is a project to implement Ex Libris’s product Primo as the single user interface for searching for all Library material (books, journals, articles, DVDs, streamed video, etc.) at Coventry University. The new interface will search the Library Catalogue, the Library’s federated search tool (MetaLib), pre-harvested metadata from certain Library databases and the University’s Institutional Repository (Equella). This should help to deliver the objectives of the project which are:

1. To provide a consistent user experience when retrieving Library information from a range of databases and other data sources (e.g. the Library Catalogue, MetaLib and Equella).
2. To improve the efficiency of information retrieval, using web 2.0 functionality
3. To increase the use of the Library’s e-resources in order to improve return on investment. The enhanced and more intuitive interface should lead to an increase in the identification and use of the e-resources.
4. To contribute to the development of a ‘community of learners’ by offering social networking tools appropriate to an HE information environment

The experience of implementing and evaluating (with usability testing) Primo at Coventry will be written up as a case study to be submitted to JISC and shared with the Library community.