Pickler Library Alert! Service
For Faculty/Staff/Graduate Students
Do you want
to know when the library receives…..
New books on Egypt? ... presidential
elections? ... bioengineered food?
New videos on
Islam? ... China? ... adopted
children?
Latest novels by John Grisham?
... Tom Clancy?
You can perform searches in the Library Catalog, and save them to be matched against new items received in the Library’s collection.
Here’s how to set up your profile.
1. Click on on
the Library’s Home Page
Type your University ID# (your Banner number with leading zeros). Add tsu
Example: 000012345tsu
Click on SUBMIT.
2. Click on Search the Catalog
Choose Truman.
Perform the search you want to save. See search examples below.
3. Click on
4. Click on
5. Click on Preferred searches
6. Mark the box
7. Click on
You can save up to 10 searches. These can be author, subject,
title, or
keyword searches.
On Mondays you will be alerted by email of any recently received titles that match
your saved searches.
Search examples
Author Searches:
Click on
Author—Type author’s last name first.
Example:
grisham john
Keyword Searches:
Click on Keyword—Create your search using all possible synonyms.
Examples: middle east or iraq or iran or israel or
palestin* or kuwait or lebanon
(capital punishment or
death penalty) and (laws or legal*)
food
and (genetic* or bioengineer* or biotech*)
egypt*
Note: Use the asterisk to find all
forms of the word (genetic*=genetic, genetics, genetically)
Only Videos, Only CD’s, etc.
On the main search
page, select the Keyword Guided Search.
Use the Material Format box to limit to a particular format. If you want only videos or DVDs, you would limit to VIDEOS/FILMS.
If you want to save a search for jazz CD’s,
you would create a search like the one in the box. After you save it, you
would be notified whenever the Library receives new jazz CD's.
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Keyword Search |
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