Vanderbilt University Library users can locate and access more quickly an expanding variety of resources – print, digital and electronic – thanks to the new online service DiscoverLibrary. Over the past two years Vanderbilt partnered with Ex Libris, a leading vendor of library automation and systems software; the University of Minnesota and Denmark’s Electronic Research Library to develop Primo, which powers DiscoverLibrary. “DiscoverLibrary goes well beyond the current concept of the library catalog,” said Jody Combs, assistant university librarian for information technology. “It contains all of the records from Acorn, the library’s current online card catalog, as well as records from the Television News Archive, the library’s largest digital collection. DiscoverLibrary can grow to contain information about all of the library’s resources, and, eventually, even campus resources that are not traditionally associated with the library catalog.” He also said that the new system is designed to be fast and intuitive with features that Web-savvy users have come to expect.
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