Searching For Information
Searching For Information
How can I find out when new material is available?
You can receive email notifications when new items by authors that you select are added to the Delaware Library Catalog. First make sure that you have a current email address in your record, or update it next time you are in your library by asking any member of library staff. To add an author or topic to a list of favorites, log in to the library catalog with your library card number and PIN, and search for your favorite author or topic. Open any full record for the author or topic, and on the left hand side of the screen, under the image of the books jacket and the ‘place hold’ and ‘add to list’ buttons you will see a links to ‘tell me when…’ Selecting one of these links will set up an automatic email notice when new material is added by this author, or on this topic. You can select how often notices are sent to you by clicking the ‘My Profile’ link in the light blue bar above the search results, and selecting weekly, every two weeks, or monthly notifications. You can also select to have automatic notices sent for new material by authors of books you have checked out in the ‘My Profile’ screen.
How do I find an article?
The Delaware Library Catalog provides access to hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and academic journals through its subscriptions to e-resources and databases. This includes a huge amount of information that is unavailable on the “open” internet, through Google, Wikipedia, or the free content of newspapers and magazines. Full-text content from leading national magazines and some of the most important scholarly and peer-reviewed journals are available through our EBSCO databases, and current and back-issues of national and regional newspapers are available from ProQUEST. click here to access databases and e-resources.
How do I ask a question?
You can connect live with a librarian using Ask a Librarian. Ask a Librarian is a 24/7 service that connects library patrons with librarians using a familiar chat-type service.
