Catalog Alert Service: Preferred Searches
Preferred searches allow you to store a search in your library account.
- You can receive e-mail alerts of new items on a topic that interests you.
- Keep track of a particularly complex search that you might want to use again.
- Use it to store a search that you will run on a regular basis.
- Log into your personal library account. You can do this by clicking here (a new window will open), or from the library home page by clicking on "lib login" button.
- Within your account, click View/Renew Materials (under WU Libraries).
- Once you are logged into your account, you will see a banner with your name that alerts you to the fact that you are logged into the Hatfield Library Consortium catalog.
- You can either choose the Start Over button in the corner or return to the library's main page to perform a catalog search. Searching for the subject botany will result in botany materials. You should see red text on the results page that identifies you as logged in.
- Once your search is performed, check the Saved as Preferred Search box (middle of page).
- To view your list of saved searches, click the "lib login" button at the top of the screen, and then click View/Renew Materials (under WU Libraries). Now in your account you should have a "Saved Searches" box on the right side of the screen.
- After you have saved a search, return to your library account and click "Preferred Searches" in the box on the right side of the screen.
- If you would like to receive e-mail alerts about new additions to the library in your preferred search area, click the box labeled "Mark for E-mail" next to the search in question.
- Click "Update list" to save the change.
- Check Your Library Account under "Modify Record" to make sure that your listed e-mail address is correct.
- You can request an email alert on any kind of search: a keyword, subject, author, or title search.
- You will receive notice of new additions to the library with your chosen subject headings at the start of each week.