My Account: How to renew books online and more!

What is my account?

My account is a service available to current University System of Maryland and Affliated Institutions (USMAI) registered users: students, faculty, staff, alumni, and College Park Special Borrowers card holders.

My account provides access to your personal library account, where you can:

• see which items you have checked out and when they are due
• renew books online and view your list of requests from other USMAI libraries
• save or e-mail search results from the Libraries' catalog

Sign in to my account

Check due dates and renew books online

• Log in to my account
• Under Activities, click on Items borrowed/renewals
• The books that you have borrowed are sorted by due date.
• To renew a book, click on the underlined number (e.g. 2) beside the title.
• On the Renewal information for item no. page, click on Renew.
• Repeat these steps for each book that you want to renew.
• Once you renew your items, review the items borrowed/renewals list to verify the new due dates.

Monitor status of items requested from other libraries for pick-up

Save recent searches

• Sign in to my account before you begin to search the Catalog.
• Conduct your search. To save it for future reference, click recent searches on the main Catalog toolbar.
• Select the search(es) you want to save. Click add to saved searches.
• Select a search strategy and click find to conduct the search again.

Save catalog records

• Sign in to my account before you begin to search.
• Conduct your search. On the Results screen, click on the underlined title for the Full View of the Catalog Record.
• On the Full View of Record screen, click on add to my saved items
• To retrieve catalog records later, sign in to my account.
• Click saved items at the top of the screen. Use the links to download/e-mail, delete, or folder management.

Important!

The items that are placed under saved items and saved searches remain in my account from session to session. You decide which items to save, delete, or e-mail.

Items saved under recent searches or the basket are temporary, and are saved until the end of the current session unless you sign in.

Save/e-mail Catalog records

• Sign in to my account before you begin to search.
• Conduct your search. On the Results screen, click on the underlined title for the Full View of the Catalog record.
• On the Full View of the Catalog record screen, click on save/e-mail.

• To e-mail a record, enter an e-mail address.
• Choose the format you prefer for the citation. Click send.

• To save to disk using Internet Explorer, leave the e-mail address blank.
• Choose your preferred format: citation, full view, brief view, etc. Click send.
• Click confirm to save the file to a PC, a disk, flash drive
• In the Internet Explorer File Download window, select save.
• Choose where you would like to save the file AND change the file extension from .sav to .doc or .txt. Click save.

• To save to disk using Mozilla Firefox, leave the e-mail address blank.
• Choose your preferred format: citation, full view, brief view, etc. Click send.
• Click confirm to save the file to a PC, a disk, flash drive
• One peculiarity of this browser is that you will need to save your record as an MS Word document before you can save it to your PC, disk, flash drive, etc.
• Save to Disk should be selected, click OK
• A download box will appear. Click on open next to your record. Typically, it will be first on the list.
• Select the program from a list, click OK.
• Choose Microsoft Office Word, click OK.
• Your record will appear as a Word document. Save your file as appropriate. Click on File --> Save As --> Save in --> My Computer --> 3.5'' Floppy (A:)

End your session!

• Remember to click on end session (upper right) before walking away from a public computer.
• A warning message will appear: Ending the session will empty the basket and erase recent searches.
• Click okay.