Library catalog – portal choice

Dear Readers!

We provide you with a new web portal Chamo that supports the Main Catalog of the Library.

The existing portal – Chameleon – closes November 15, 2013.

Until then, you can use both portals.

Chamo is one of the modules of Virtua – the integrated library system – used in the Library since 1998. The manufacturer of the system, an American company VTLS Inc., is systematically developing its software in order to better take into account the needs of libraries and their users.

New i-portal carries Library catalog in the environment of modern, interactive web portals and search engines, which facilitates its intuitive operation.

It provides new features that allow you to:

• create on-line your library account and order materials to Reading- and Lending Room;
• update the information contained in your profile, such as your e -mail address;

• receive a message from a librarian directly into your Library Accoun;t
• narrow down your search results using dynamic (related to the search) facets;
• supply the selected books with a label characterizing their usefulness (tags)
• reviewing selected items, wherein the reviews can be managed by the staff and made available to the public or left to the view of the individual user;
• evaluate selected items using computer tools for ranking;
• merge the search results in the Library catalog with the search results in other online sources;
• save the search results to the cart, and then e-mail them or save to any external disc in any chosen format;
• create and save lists of retrieved publications and export them via e-mail or save to any disc in the desired format;
• track the history of previous searches;
• modify the used search criteria and keep them for future use;
• connect to other social web portals without breaking the connection with the catalog.

We encourage you to use the Help system available as „?” – button in the upper right corner of each screen.

Feel free to use Chamo!

IMPORTANT CHANGE!   Requesting the library materials to the Reading Rooms You must have a valid Library Card or register to the system! 

To register to the library system choose button Login and then a hyperlink Create a new Account. After completing the registration form you will receivean email with your login and password which lets you to access and order the materials in accordance with the regulations of individual Reading Rooms.

After coming to the Library, pick up in the Lending Room the Library Card, which you will use for future logins to the system and authorized use of all the agencies of the Library.

The Library Card you can buy as well in the Lending Room before the first logging into the Portal.

The fee for the issuance of a Library Card is 6 zł.