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The Ex Libris Primo Community Around the World Continues to Grow
Tuesday 09. December 2008 - Support for sophisticated consortia and Web 2.0 are among the features that lead institutions everywhere to select the Primo solution
Ex Libris Group is pleased to announce that a number of institutions in Europe and North America have recently selected Ex Libris Primo as their discovery and delivery solution. The newest members of the rapidly growing Primo community include the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium; Canadas University of British Columbia; and two institutions in the United States: Northwestern University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
“Primo will transform the way students and researchers access our diverse collections, whether print, electronic, or digital,” commented Jo Rademakers, head of library automation at the Catholic University of Leuven. “Primos capacity to support complex consortia was a deciding factor for us, as was the products Web 2.0 features and open interfaces. All of these elements make Primo stand out as the perfect solution for our library. We are excited to have begun implementation, and we plan to go live with Primo in the spring,” he added.
Rue Ramirez, associate university librarian for library systems and information technology/technical services at the University of British Columbia, emphasized the importance of a user-centric discovery and delivery service for the institution and its library users: “Building on our existing tools, Primo is the best product to serve as an interface to the librarys collections. Our positive experience with the open architecture of Voyager, MetaLib, and SFXall from Ex Librismade us keen to select another product with robust APIs. These APIs will enable us to develop code extensions to meet the needs of the library and to benefit the broader Primo community.”
A long-time Ex Libris customer, Northwestern University selected Primo in order to provide a unified point of access to their diverse collections, bringing together an array of electronic resources and library catalogs. “We are excited that Primo will dovetail with our existing Ex Libris solutions –the Voyager integrated library system, SFX OpenURL link resolver and MetaLib gateway and metasearch portal,” commented Sarah Pritchard, University Librarian at Northwestern University.
“We are very pleased with the expansion of the Primo customer community, which currently numbers over 100 institutions spanning 15 countries and four continents; and are honored that these distinguished libraries have chosen Primo to serve as a universal solution for finding and obtaining the full spectrum of their materials,” Nancy Dushkin, VP marketing at Ex Libris, remarked. “As with all other Ex Libris products, we work in close collaboration with the customer base to continually enhance product functionalities, in order to address the needs of the global market and of libraries of all types and sizes.”