Change Is Coming: The New VIRGO
Available starting July 15, 2010, the U.Va. Library's new search interface, VIRGOnew, has many exciting new features. With the new VIRGO, you can:
- Search items the Library has catalogued, including books, journal titles, DVDs, CDs, sheet music, websites, and microfilm, and also, in the same search for the first time, digital collections of images and texts;
- Filter your results by format, dates, and keywords;
- Sort your results by relevancy ranking, date received, author, title or call number;
- Save and share your searches and results in Delicious, RefWorks, and Zotero;
- Select, save, print, e-mail, and SMS multiple records;
- Generate an RSS feed for your search, so you can be notified when the Library acquires materials in your subject area.
To learn more about what the new VIRGO can do, read the FAQs or watch the videos below about its many features. We welcome your feedback.
The new VIRGO Video Tutorials
- Search the new VIRGO by keyword, author, or title
- Browse videos with the new VIRGO
- Find out what's new in our collections using the new VIRGO's RSS
- View metadata for any VIRGO record
- Place a recall or other request for a library item
- Search the new VIRGO by keyword, author, or title
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Take a look at the basic search and filter features of our new, search interface.
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- Browse videos with the new VIRGO
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Clemons Library's Robertson Media Center has a vast collection of DVDs and videos of both academic and popular films. the new VIRGO allows you to browse or search through the entire collection to help you find films to support your research or a get a great comedy to watch this weekend.
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- Find out what's new in our collections using the new VIRGO's RSS
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The new VIRGO lets you choose specific criteria so you can be notified about new items.
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- View metadata for any VIRGO record
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The new VIRGO lets you access all available metadata for any VIRGO record (except digital repository objects).
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- Place a recall or other request for a library item
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To recall or place another kind of request for a Library item, the new VIRGO offers a link back to VIRGOclassic.
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Want to use this technology at your institution?
The new VIRGO catalogue is the interface of Blacklight, an open-source research project at the U.Va. Library. Read the technical specifics and find out how other libraries are using it.
