LAB Art, Design & Communication

LUT Academic Library collection is available through LAB Primo. You can renew your loans, make reservations and save your favourites in Primo.  

With Basic search / Academic library's collections search you'll be able to find:  

• print & electronic books  
• print & electronic journals
• electronic articles 
• databases  
• LAB and LUT theses. 

Login to LAB Primo with your university ID from the top right corner and select the Haka-login option. 

In the Primo search service you can look for materials using the name of the material, the author, ISBN, or by using search term relating to the subject. 

• Narrow your search results by using the Primo filters  
• The asterisk * is a wildcard, and it can be used to replace the end of a search term 
• If you want your search terms to appear together as a phrase, use "quotation marks" around them  
• The Boolean operators AND & OR  can be used in Primo, please note that AND is built-in so you don't have to type it into your search.  

​At an information retrieval guidance you will receive personal assistance with information seeking, help in finding and using the databases most relevant to your study subject and help with referencing. The duration of the session is approx. 30 minutes.

Book a tailored guidance session by using the online form.

Before the appointment, please look at the self-study materials found in these guides and do a few searches in Primo. Also think of a few possible search terms relating to your subject.