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As well as viewing recommendations based on what you have borrowed, its possible to help other customers by adding reviews and star ratings to book records.
You can also create your own lists and set up alerts to be informed of new items in your areas of interest or by particular authors.
As you browse through the records in your result set after performing a search in the Library Catalogue, you will notice that some records are displayed with a number of stars. This indicates that one or more reviews have been attached to the record displayed. The number of stars displayed is an average of the ratings given to this record by the reviewers.
Do the following to add your review to a record:
- Retrieve the record you want to add your review to and display in full display.
- Click on the link to Add a review. This will display a form for you to complete.
- Enter your library card number and PIN if you are not already logged in.
- Select the star rating you would like to assign.
- Enter your comments. You can enter as much text as you like. Press Enter to start a new paragraph.
- Select the Continue button to submit your review. Your comments will be reviewed by library staff before being made available for general access to others. Library staff reserve the right to decline reviews which are inappropriate or irrelevant .
Your name appears next to your review but not your rating. No contact details are shown.
You can review, update and delete the Ratings and Comments records you have previously created in your Library Account.
You may delete any of the records you have created, but you may only update records which are still to be reviewed by library staff.
Once these records have been approved or declined, they may no longer be updated as that would mean they would need to be reviewed again.
You can review, update and delete the Ratings and Comments records you have previously created in your Library Account.
You may delete any of the records you have created, but you may only update records which are still to be reviewed by library staff.
Once these records have been approved or declined, they may no longer be updated as that would mean they would need to be reviewed again.
To delete a rating or review:
1. Login to My Account and go to the History page
2. Select the link to display your ratings and comments records
3. All of these will be displayed, click the icon to the right of the rating you want to delete and click Delete Review
To edit a ratings and comments record which is pending review by library staff:
1. Login to My Account and go to the History page
2. Select the link to display your ratings and comments records
3. All of these will be displayed, click the icon to the right of the rating you want to delete and click Delete Review
4. Make your desired changes then click Continue.
You can set up an alert profile online at any time using the facilities provided in My Library.
An alert profile is a summary of your preferences for materials you would like to use. The preferences could include author, words from a title, publisher, subject, series and even language.
These profiles are scanned as part of the library's overnight housekeeping and for any new titles that meet the criteria, you will be sent an email containing brief bibliographic details for each work, as well as a hyperlink to the work. When you receive this email, you can click on the hyperlink to go directly to the work and place a reservation against it if you wish.
You can set up as many alerts as you like.
- Once logged in, go to New Alert Profile
- Enter the information in the catalogue search boxes shown – you can choose Author, Title and other criteria from the drop down menu
- Clicking on Search will show the titles that come up as in stock so you can see if your alert profile needs tweaking
- At the bottom of the form, you can give the alert a name, and also set how often you want the search done – Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly. You will only be sent emails when new titles appear.
- You can set an expiry date on the alert, but you can also cancel them at any time. The alerts show if you click on History in the My Account menu.
A Saved List could be a wish list of titles you want to read, or a subject list for study and future use.
Its available for you to view but is not shared with anyone else.
You can create as many as you like.
- Once logged in, go to Add Saved List in the My Account menu.
- You will be invited to give the list a name
- You can then do a normal catalogue search – when you see an entry, click the Bookmark symbol at the right to add it to your current list. The Bookmark symbol will be filled in.
- You can view saved lists in View Saved Lists in the My Account menu.
If you are logged into the library catalogue, your savedlists will not be deleted. They will remain until you decide to remove them.
You can add items to a savedlist if you are not logged in, however this will normally be kept on the system for two days. It will be automatically cleared after this time.