Technology Tips: Configure your OU Library homepage

The OU Library website, libraries.ou.edu, is definitely the best site on the OU campus in terms of the wide range of features and services that are available online. To take advantage of these services, you need to log in to the website, using your OUNet ID (4x4) and your password.

You can even create your own customized OU Library homepage, listing the Library reference materials and services you use most often. For the purposes of this assignment, you will log on to the Library website and customize your Library homepage.

So, go to libraries.ou.edu and log in. Then, click on My Library in the left-hand panel, just below where it shows that you are logged in.

From there you can modify the features and services you want to have available to you on your Library homepage.

There is a LONG list of available items. You can choose whatever you want, but I would urge you to focus on the item called My E-Reference Materials. Check the box next to where it says My E-Reference Materials so it will appear on the homepage, and then click Modify List to select what reference materials you want to include:

You can choose anything you want here, but I would suggest good, general items like Britannica Online, Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, Oxford English Dictionary, and World Almanac.

When you are done clicking the items you want to include, scroll down to the bottom and click Save. This take you back to the long list of options. You can choose and configure other options if you want, or you can click Save again to continue.

Now you can arrange the options you have chosen on the screen. Use the arrows to move items up and down. I would suggest that you move the My E-Reference Materials up to the top of the column so that you will not have to scroll down to find it.

When you finish arrange the items on the screen the way that you want, click Done.

This should take you back to your newly customized screen! Congratulations!

To complete this assignment, take a screenshot showing your customized screen (see instructions for screenshots if you are not sure how to do that), and send the screenshot as an attachment in the email to the instructor. If you are in the Myth-Folklore class, use the Subject Line Myth-Folklore Library Homepage; if you are in Indian Epics, Indian Epics Library Homepage; or for World Literature, World Lit Library Homepage.

When you have sent in the email, you can do the Gradebook Declaration for Extra Credit.

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