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Primo Quick Start Guide: Features

Features

My Account is the place where you can manage and oversee your loans, requests, and settings. 

After login to your account, you will be able to:

  • save records & organise them with custom labels
  • access your search history
  • save searches, and
  • setup search alerts

To access your library account online, please go to the Library website library.nu.edu.kz and go to My Account:

In Primo, find the Sign In option:

To log in, use either your NU ID card number or login name and password that was given for NU systems (such as Moodle).

Use "My Favourites" to locate and manage your:

  • Saved Records – This tab displays all your saved records and enables you to manage your saved records. In addition, it enables you to export records individually or in bulk to various systems, devices, and formats.

  • Saved Searches – This tab displays all your saved searches and enables you to manage your saved searches. In addition, it enables you to set up alerts and RSS feeds, which let you know when results have changed for saved searches. 

  • Search History – This tab displays all your searches for the current session and allows you to manage your current session's searches. 

The My Favorites page can be accessed by selecting the My Favorites button pin button at the top of each page. Please remember that you must be signed in to save records and searches between sessions.

Read more: Using My Favorites in Primo  

Primo allows signed-in users to save searches between sessions and receive email alerts when there is an update to the saved search query.

If you save a search, you can easily rerun it in the future without wasting time searching again.

To save a search:

  1. Make sure that you have logged into Primo Search.
  2. Run a search and apply any limiters to refine the results.
  3. Select the Save Query icon at the top of the search results. 

save query option

Setting an alert

Primo allows signed-in users to receive email alerts when there is an update to the saved search query. 

To set an alert:

  1. Select the My Favorites button at the top of the page.

  2. Select the SAVED SEARCHES tab to display all of your saved searches.

  3. Select the Set Alert button set alert button that appears next to the query to set the alert.

set alert

Cancelling an alert

To cancel an alert:

  1. Click the My Favorites button at the top of the page.

  2. Select the Saved Searches tab to display all of your saved searches.

  3. Click the Cancel Alert button cancel alert button that appears next to the query to cancel the alert.

cancel alert

Primo allows signed-in users to save found records for subsequent sessions. After a record has been saved, the My Favorites > Saved Records page allows users to perform the following operations on saved records: view, delete, export, and label. Labels enable you to group and manage similar records.

Saving an individual record
  1. Perform a search.

  2. Select the Pin button pin button next to the item that you want to save in the search results.

saving individual item

The system highlights the item, changes the icon to the Pinned icon pinned button, and adds the item to the My Favorites page.

NOTE: You must sign in to save items for future sessions.

Saving multiple records

On the Brief Results page, you can use the following methods to select items for bulk saves to My Favorites:

  • Individual Selection – Select the checkbox that appears next to each item in the list. As records are added to the page, the number of selected records appears above the results. You can load more results to the page to enable the selection of more records.

saving multiple buttons

  • Page Selection – Select the checkbox that appears above the entire list to select all items on the page. You can load more results to the page to enable the selection of more records

 

Read more about Saving and Managing Records in Primo 

 

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