Logging in to your library account will allow you to:

• See the items you have on loan, and when they are due, see the status of any requests, pay any charges.
• See the full details of all the items in your search results
• Save records to your favourites, and add your own labels to items
• Save searches/queries if you want to run them again

How to login

From Library Search choose Sign in located at the top right of the screen:

Staff and Students of the University of St Andrews should use the University login option.

• If you haven't already logged in to another University service you'll be taken to the University of St Andrews Sign on page, enter your email address and password and follow the on-screen instructions.
• If you have already logged in the system will log you in automatically.

External Library members should use the External Account login option

• You'll be asked for your user ID, this is the barcode from your Library card
• Enter the password you created when you joined the Library.  If you have forgotten your password there's an option to change your password.

You can add items to your favourites by clicking the pin icon to the right of the item you want to save.

If you are logged in the record will be saved to your favourites.

If you have not logged in the items will be saved to a temporary favourites area for the browser session but will be removed when you close the browser session.  To view them click the pin icon at the top right of the webpage.  To save the pinned items to your favourites sign in to your account.

Adding labels to saved items

You can add a label to saved items, and then search by label.

• Login to your account.
• Choose My Favourites from the account options.
• Click Add label which is located beneath the details of each item in your favourites.
• Click New to create a new label and apply it to the item.
• If you have already created labels they will display to be selected when you click Add label.
• You can add more than 1 label to an item.

All labels are listed to the right of the My favourites area.  Clicking a label will filter the items in My Favourites to only show the items with the assigned label.

You will need to be signed in to your account to save a search:

• Log in to your account
• Carry out your search, entering search terms and apply any filters
• Select the Save query option which displays at the top of the results, to the right of the number of results
• The query will be saved to your favourites.  The query will include the search terms used and any filters you have applied.

To access a saved search  / saved query

• Login to your account
• Go to My favourites
• Choose the Saved Searches tab
• To run the search again click on it, the search will run and you can access the results.

Delete a saved search / saved query

• Login to your account
• Go to My favourites
• Choose the Saved Searches tab
• Click the unpin icon to the right of the search to delete it, deleted searches cannot be recovered.

Email  Library@st-andrews.ac.uk with any questions 

Chat with Library staff online, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

Phone the Library Service Desk:

44+ 1334 462331