My Library

My Library is used to personalise your catalogue search sessions.

• Login to My Library
• Renewing your loans
• Change your Library PIN (non-Murdoch University members only)
• Preferred searches and email alerts
• My Ratings - Add your own ratings to books and other items
• My Reading History - Keep a record of what you have borrowed
• My Lists - Save lists of records for future reference

Login to My Library :

Murdoch University staff and students, MIT and OUA Students:
Use your Murdoch Username and Murdoch Password. More information.

All other patrons:
You will need a Library PIN to use My Library . More information.

Renewing Your Loans

1. Log in to My Library .
2. Your checked out items will be listed in the table at the bottom of the screen. If they do not appear, click the button "Checked out items".
3. Select the materials you want to renew by checking the boxes in the RENEW column and then click the Renew Selected button. If you want to renew everything, click the Renew ALL button.
4. If you cannot renew items, a message will appear on the screen. If you are successful, a new due date will appear in the "STATUS" column. Always check the STATUS column for information on the success or failure of your renewal.

Preferred Searches and Email Alerts

Setting up and Viewing Preferred Searches

1. Login to My Library and go to Search the Catalogue.
2. Search for materials by keyword, author, title, subject or other search as required.
3. Click the Save Search button at the top right hand side of the search results list.
4. Click on the Patron Record button to return to your patron record.
5. Click on Preferred Searches and the search you saved should be listed.

Repeating a Preferred Search

1. Login to My Library
2. Click on Preferred Searches
3. Click on Search in the right hand column next to the search to be repeated and the search will be carried out.

Removing all Saved Searches

1. Login to My Library
2. Click on Preferred Searches.
3. Click on the Remove all Searches button and all searches will be removed.

Setting up an Email Alert

1. Login to My Library
2. Set up your Preferred Search as instructed above.
3. Tick the Mark for Email box next to a saved search.
4. Click on Update Lists to save your request
5. When a new title that matches your preferred search arrives, you will be notified by email.

The maximum number of Email Alerts allowed is 20. Once this number has been reached, the Save Search button will no longer appear on the search results screen.
Email Alerts are sent once a week.

Deleting an Email Alert

1. Login to My Library .
2. Click on Preferred Searches
3. Tick the Mark for Remove box next to the search to be deleted.
4. Click on the Update List button and the search will be removed.

My Ratings

Ratings is a feature of the catalogue that allows you to rate titles as well as see ratings other people have given titles. You can rate books, movies, CDs, databases—whatever material type we have for a title.

Viewing Ratings in the Catalogue

Titles that have been rated will show blue stars. The blue stars are an average and if you move your mouse over the blue stars, a ratings message appears that tells you how many people have given that title a rating. Example: Rated 3 out of 5 based on 4 ratings.

Explanation of Ratings
Color Coding	Yellow - your rating. Blue - group rating. White - needs to be rated.
	Excellent. Highly recommend.
	Very Good. Exceeds expectations.
	Good. Met expectations but did not exceed them
	Fairly low opinion. Recommend only with reservations.
	Extremely low opinion of this item. Would not recommend.
	Never been rated. No recommendation available.

If you are searching the catalogue while you are logged into My Library , your ratings will display to you as yellow stars. You can still see what other people have rated a title that you have also rated by moving your mouse over the stars. The group rating will appear in blue.

Titles that have not been rated by anyone appear blank. If you are logged into My Library and searching the catalogue, titles that have not been rated by anyone will show question marks inside the stars when you move your mouse over them.

How to Add your Own Ratings

1. You need to be logged in to My Library to add your own ratings.
2. Once you have logged in search the catalogue for the title you would like to rate.
3. You will see a row of stars under the title’s publication information or on the right of the screen in the brief record display. You can also login by clicking on one of these stars.
4. When you move your mouse over the stars you should see question marks appear within the stars.
5. To give a rating click on the appropriate star.

Viewing My Ratings in My Library

After you have rated a title, click on at the top of the page to access your My Library account. You should now have a new button called My Ratings.

You can delete or change your ratings from this screen.

My Reading History

You can use "My Reading History" to keep track of the items that you have borrowed from the library. This is an optional function which is available via My Library .

Before using "My Reading History" please read Reading History and your Privacy.

If you choose to activate “My Reading History”:

1. Login to My Library and click on
2. Click on

All items you borrow from now on will be recorded in your Reading History list. Items currently on loan to you at the time of activation are not included in the history. You can delete any items from your list by checking the Mark box and choosing Delete Marked. Deleted items are permanently removed.

You can turn the “My Reading History ” feature off at any time by clicking on If you choose to opt out you must first delete all items from the list. This is done by clicking on the Delete All button.

My Lists

My Lists lets you mark and save lists of library materials you are interested in, but haven't yet borrowed. You can create and save as many lists as you need, and view your lists from within your My Library account. Your lists will remain in your My Library account until you delete them.

• To add records to My Lists from your search results, mark items of interest, and click on button.
• If you are not already logged in, the system will prompt you to log in.
• Once you are logged in, select “Create a new list”, or select an existing list.
• Name Your List (Required) and add Description (Optional) and click on “Submit”
• You will see the message:

• To see your list click on the Patron Record button on the upper left of the page.
• Click on the button
• From the My Lists screen, you can sort lists by list name, description, or date added. Click the column header to sort your lists.
• To view records within a list, click on the list name.
• Click on a column header to sort your saved records by title, author, or date added to the list. You may also click on the Request Button to request items from your list.
• To export your list click on the button.
  You can send your list to either your email account or to the screen in any of 5 formats: Full Display, Brief Display, Pro-Cite, End_Note/RefWorks or MARC.