The National Library released a beta version of the Find discovery service in July 2009.
Find allows:
- searching across multiple catalogues and digital collections
- tag and comment on collection items (for registered users)
- saving favourite items or searches(for registered users).
Content
Find reveals collection items and resources from a number of National Library websites and catalogues, in addition to other resources.
These include:
- The National Library of New Zealand catalogue (published items)
- TAPUHI, the Alexander Turnbull Library catalogue (unpublished items)
- Timeframes (digitised New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library)
- Publications NZ (print and electronic publications from or about New Zealand, or by New Zealand authors)
- FindNZArticles and Index New Zealand (articles published in New Zealand magazines and newspapers and publications about New Zealand and the South Pacific)
- Te Puna Web Directory (selected New Zealand and Pacific Island web sites)
- Subscription databases
- Papers Past (digitised historical New Zealand newspapers)
- Manuscripts and Pictorial (digitised manuscripts and pictorial items from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections)
- New Zealand Libraries' Catalogue (aggregated catalogue of New Zealand libraries)
- Discover (curriculum-related digital resources)
- Cadence (database of choral sets and orchestral parts held by New Zealand choirs, orchestras and libraries)
- Te Ao Hou (digitised magazine)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand (digitised journal)
- Kiwi Research Information Service (open-access research documents, including theses)
- Digital New Zealand (New Zealand digital content)
Technology
Find is built using Ex Libris' Primo discovery and delivery software.
More about Primo – Ex Libris website
One of the advantages of the Primo software is the inclusion of an API (Application Programming Interface). This API gives the Library flexibility in the development of new digital services, and will enable us to open up access to our data.
Giving feedback
The Library has chosen to release a beta version of Find to enable us to collect user feedback to guide its ongoing development.
More about the beta release – LibraryTechNZ blog
We welcome all feedback from people using Find. You can submit comments using the feedback form on the Find homepage, or email your comments to find-feedback@natlib.govt.nz
