Acorn Alerts

Acorn Alerts allow you to receive notifications, via email, of new titles received in the library by selected authors or on selected subjects. This feature is only available when you have logged in under Account Login.

If you are logged into your Acorn account when viewing the details of a record, a link to Create an Alert will appear to the left. Selecting this link takes you to the bottom of the record where authors and subjects can be selected for your Acorn Alerts profile. When you click on an author or subject under Select the author for your alert or Select the subject for your alert, Acorn will register that author or subject under your Acorn Alerts profile. A screen message will indicate that you will be notified via email when new titles are received on the subject or by the author you have selected. Click OK to go back to the catalog record to select another author or subject or to continue using Acorn.

Once you have created Acorn Alerts, the subjects and authors will appear on the opening search screen each time you log into Acorn. Clicking on a subject or author retrieves all records in the catalog that match that subject or author.

If you have been searching Acorn or viewing your account, you can click on Basic Search to return to the main screen to view your Acorn Alert selections.

Click on My Account and then My Alerts Profile to make changes to the frequency of your Acorn Alerts or to automatically register the subjects and authors of books you check out.

To delete a subject or author from your Acorn Alerts profile, choose the Remove My Alert link under My Account, copy the subject or author from an email alert or an Acorn record, and paste it into the Remove My Alert form. Multiple authors and subjects may be requested for removal using the same form.

A note about subjects:

When you select subjects for an Acorn Alert, the subject headings of the newly cataloged items to which you will be alerted may not exactly match the subject headings you originally selected. The system performs an adjacency search for keywords in the subject headings (see Operators for an explanation of adjacency searching).

You may want to experiment with narrowing or broadening the subjects you've selected for your Acorn Alerts by using the Subject begins with search (see Basic Search) or a Browse search by subject to view the various subdivisions that may occur under a broader subject.

For your personal security and privacy, please remember to log out each time you leave Acorn. You will be logged out of Acorn (both your account, if logged in, and the catalog) and returned to the library home page.