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What’s New?

• Easier access: Use your college email username (the part before the @ symbol) and password instead of your bar code to request, renew, hold, or book items held by the TriCollege Libraries.
• Favorites: Once you’ve logged into Tripod you can ‘favorite’ items in Books & More, save them to lists, and email, export, or print them.

What’s Staying the Same?

• Tripod Classic: you will still need to use your library barcode.
• E-ZBorrow: for the time being, requesting items in E-ZBorrow will still require your barcode.
• Guest/Visitor Accounts: also for the time being, library patrons that do not have a campus email account will need to continue to use Tripod Classic.
• Off-campus access: you will still need to log into your campus’ EZProxy server to access article content, databases, and journals. Logging in to EZProxy or VPN will not get you access to your library account.

How Does It Work?

• You will be prompted to log in with your campus email username and password if you:
• click the ‘Login’ link in the upper right corner of any page (formerly the ‘My Tripod’ link)
• are in Books & More and try to request an item or click an ‘Add to Favorites’ link
• The first time you use the new system, you’ll need to enter your library barcode to request items, view fines, etc. After that, you’ll only need to use your email username and password.
• For a fuller explanation see the Step-By-Step Guide to Tripod’s New Account Features

Caveats

• The first time you log in to the new account system you’ll be asked for your barcode.
• If your campus password is longer than 16 characters, you’ll need to use Tripod Classic or change your password. We’re working on this and hope to be able to accommodate longer passwords soon.
• If you have multiple library accounts, only one can be associated with your campus email account in Tripod. For the others, you will need to use Tripod Classic.
• If the current email in the library system is not your campus email (you would’ve had to change this yourself) then you can either change that or use Tripod Classic.

Notes About Security and Your Library-Related Data

• To fully ensure that your account can not be accessed by anyone else, please fully close your browser when you are done.
• If you log out of your library account but leave your browser up, it is possible to get back into your account without providing credentials again.

Questions? Problems?

• Please ask a librarian or write to tricoadmin@brynmawr.edu with any questions or issues.

Table of Contents

1. Get Started
2. Log in to Your Account
3. Successful Log In
4. Your First Log In & Entering Your Barcode
5. If Your Log In Was Unsuccessful
6. Logging Out & Security
7. Using Favorites

Get Started

There are three ways to access your account in Tripod:

• Click the ‘Login’ link in the upper right corner corner of any page.
• Click ‘Add to Favorites’ in Books & More search result or record pages.
• Click the ‘Request’ link on a Books & More record page.

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Log In to Your Account

• After you’re clicked one of the above links, you will be directed to a login selection page.
• If you are a current student, faculty or staff member, select the “institutional credentials” link on the left side.
• If you are a guest or non-campus affiliated patron, or wish to access your account via Tripod Classic, select the link on the right.
• After clicking “institutional credentials”, you will be directed to Tripod’s login page.
• Enter your email username (the part before the @yourcollege.edu) and the associated password.
• In the drop down menu select the college that your email is associated with, not the campus you’re on.

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Successful Log In

• After a successful log in, you will see the following page and will be returned to Tripod.
• How you started the log in process determines where you will be redirected.
• If you were requesting an item, you will be returned to that item’s record page where you can continue the request process.
• If you clicked ‘Login’, you will be redirected to your Tripod account page.
• If you clicked ‘Add to Favorites’, you will be given the option to assign the item to a list. After assigning the item to a list, you will be redirected to the record page for the item.

Your First Log In & Entering Your Barcode

• After your first log in to Tripod you will be prompted to enter your barcode if:
• You attempt to request an item.
• You attempt to access your library account data; fines, renewals, checked out items, etc.
• After entering your barcode you won’t be asked for it again.

If Your Log In Was Unsuccessful

• If you receive the error message, “Incorrect barcode entered or incorrect email address in your library account.  Try again or check with the Circulation desk.”:
• first go to Tripod Classic and attempt to log in. If that fails then the issue is with your bar code and you should talk to your campus’ circulation department.
• If you can successfully log in to Tripod Classic, then there may be an issue with the email in the library system and you should contact your circulation department or write to tricoadmin@brynmawr.edu.
• If you receive a “Web Auth Error” that says “unrecoverable error occurred. Try again later” that means you tried to log in with your full email instead of just your email username. Return to Tripod and log in again with the part of your email preceding the @ symbol.
• If the above suggestion do not resolve your issue contact your circulation department or write to tricoadmin@brynmawr.edu

Logging Out & Security

• Completely logging out of your Tripod account is a two-step process:
• Click the “Log Out” link in the upper right corner of any Tripod page.
• Close your browser fully when your session is complete.
• If you log out of your library account but leave your browser up, it is possible to get back into your account without providing credentials again.

Using Favorites

• In Books & More select ‘Add to Favorites’ in the search results or on a record page.
• When adding to favorites, you can create multiple lists, and choose to make lists public or private.
• To share a public list, simply go to that list and copy the URL.
• If you are logged in, items you have added to a list will be highlighted in search results and on record pages.
• Favorites can be emailed, exported to Endnote, and printed.
• If you use Zotero, selecting the Print option will display your favorites in a way that is compatible with Zotero.

Fuzzy Searches

Use a tilde at the end of a single word term to search for terms similar in spelling.

• roam~ will find terms like road, room, and foam.
• To specify the required similarity, add a value between 0 (less similar) and 1 (more similar). The default that is used if the parameter is not given is 0.5. For example, roam~0.8 will only find terms like roams and roaming.

Proximity Searches

Use a tilde at the end of a multiple word term to search for terms which are certain distance apart.

• “economics Keynes”~10 will return results for economics and Keynes that are within 10 words apart
• Double quotes do not trigger a phrased search in proximity searches.

Range Searches

Use special characters to perform a range search.

• {A TO C} will return results that have terms that begin with A, B, or C. These terms could come from the title, author, or other fields.
• [2011 TO 2012] will return results which include 2011 and 2012. These terms could cme from the publication date, title, or other fields.

Boosting a Term

To apply more weight to a term, you can use the ^ character.

• economics Keynes^5 will give more value to the term “Keynes”.

Too much? Try our guide to Searching in Books & More!

Search Fields

• Instead of a single search box, Tripod’s Advanced Search provides several fields to enter your search terms.
• Each field lets you specify the type of data (title, author, etc.) you are searching for, and you can mix and match search types.
• If you need them, the “Add Another Row” button will add additional search fields.
• The “Match” setting lets you specify how multiple search fields should be handled.
  • ALL Terms: Return only records that match every search field.
  • ANY Terms: Return any records that match at least one search field.
  • NO Terms: Return all records except those that match the search fields.

Search Groups

• For certain searches, a single set of search fields may not be enough. For example, suppose you want to find materials about the history of China or India.
  • If you did an ALL Terms search for China, India, and history, you would only get materials about China and India.
  • If you did an ANY Terms search, you would get a lot of materials about history that had nothing to do with China or India.
• Search Groups provide a way to build searches from multiple groups of search fields. Every time you click the “Add Search Group” button, a new group of fields is added.
• Once you have multiple search groups, you can specify whether you want to match on ANY or ALL search groups.
• In the history of China or India example above, you could solve the problem by using search groups like this:
  • In the first search group, enter India and China and make sure that the “Match” setting is “ANY Terms.”
  • Add a second search group and enter history.
  • Make sure the match setting next to the Search Groups header is set to “ALL Groups.”

Multiple Search Terms in a Field

• Boolean operators can be used in each search field.
• For multiple word search terms using the keyword drop down, you must perform a phrased search or use AND. Within each advanced search field, the default is OR. For example:
  • Citizen Kane, in one search field, as a keyword, returns 13,344 results.
  • Citizen AND Kane, in one search field, as a keyword, returns 95 results.
  • “Citizen Kane”, in one search field, as a keyword, returns 77 results.

• Basic Boolean searching
• Phrased searching
• Stemming and query expansion
• Wildcards
• Stop words

Basic Boolean searching

• Use AND, OR, NOT, and – to combine terms with Boolean logic.
• These Boolean operators must be in uppercase.

AND

• The AND operator finds materials where both terms appear.
• The default search is AND.
• Beatles AND biography finds materials with both terms, Beatles and biography.

OR

• The OR operator finds materials where either term appears.
• Beatles OR biography finds materials that include the term Beatles and materials that include the term biography.

NOT

• The NOT operator excludes materials that contain the term after NOT.
• Beatles NOT biography finds materials that include the term Beatles, but do not have the term biography.
• To exclude multiple terms, use the – (minus) operator. For example, Beatles -biography -media finds materials that include the term Beatles but not the terms biography or media.
• The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term.

Phrased searching

“search terms are surrounded by special markers (generally, quotation marks) to show that they form a phrase. The software returns only those items in which these words appear next to each other, and in exactly the same order as the supplied phrase” (Webster’s New World Computer Dictionary, 2003)

• Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase.
• For example:
  • “global warming” will give you more precise results than global warming
  • “World War II” will give more precise results than World War II

Stemming

The stemming algorithm automatically reduces words to their base or root form.

• gerrymandering to gerrymander.
• enigmatically to enigmatical.

Query expansion

The opposite of stemming, this process automatically expands words to their common forms.

• Quaker to Quakers and Quakerism.
• conserve to conservation, conservative, etc.

Searches can be simultaneously stemmed and expanded.

• robotic returns results for robot, robots, and robotics
• cooking returns results for cooking as well as cook, cooked, cooks, and Cooke.

Phrased searches are still stemmed and expanded.

• “stories of success” returns results for “story of success”
• “heart of dark” returns results for Heart of Darkness

Wildcards

“a character (such as an asterisk or question mark) that stands for any other character, or series of any other characters, that may appear in the same place” (Webster’s New World Computer Dictionary, 2003)

If you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol for one or more letters.

• To perform a single character wildcard search use the ? symbol.
  • organi?e returns results for organise or organize
  • h??ophilia returns results for hemophilia and homophilia
• To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the * symbol.
  • econom* returns results for economy, economies, or economics
  • h*ophilia returns results for hemophilia, Hispanophilia, haemophilia, hypereosinophilia, heterophilia, hibernophilia, and homophilia
• Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.

Stop words

“a word which is ignored in querying a database because it is so common and would produce so many results that it would obscure the search or take too much time” (The Macquarie Dictionary, 2005)

Remember

• If you’re combining words with Boolean logic, remember to capitalize your operators; “and”, “or” and “not” are stop words when lowercase.
• Stop words are ommitted in phrased searches right now too, but we plan to fix that.

Want more? Try our guide to Advanced Searching or our guide to Other Types of Searches in Books & More!

Bryn Mawr College has one of the largest and richest collections of art, cultural artifacts, rare books and manuscripts to be found among liberal arts colleges in the country. The collections were built through donations from the extraordinary graduates of this all-women’s college that opened in 1885. Rather than focusing on one time period or topic, the collections reflect the range of interests of the donors, and thus support teaching, advanced research, and exhibitions across numerous fields.

The collections comprise rare books, manuscripts, ephemera, graphics, photographs and the College’s archives. They also include the art and artifact collections which number more than 50,000 objects and encompass five areas: fine art, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs; archaeology; anthropology; decorative arts; and geology.

An expanded list of Bryn Mawr Special Collections finding aids and additional archival collections, is available at http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/.

Friends Historical Library

Established in 1871, Friends Historical Library collects materials pertaining to Quaker history, from the mid-17th century beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends in England to the present. FHL is one of the outstanding research facilities for the study of Quaker history and houses the archives of Swarthmore College.

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Special Collections maintains the college’s unique and rare materials. The principle collections include the world-renowned Quaker Collection, college archives, rare books and manuscripts, and fine art. The Quaker Collection centers on the history of Quakerism from 17th-century Britain to the present day in many parts of the world. The college archives documents the history and operations of Haverford College from its founding in 1833 to present. Rare books and manuscripts cover all fields of knowledge with particular strengths in literature, natural history, science, and American and British history. The collection of art includes photography ranging the history of the genre, prints by European, American and Asian artists, oil paintings, sculpture, and Ancient Greek, Middle Eastern, Indian and African artifacts.

Peace Collection

The Peace Collection holds the papers of many individuals and the records of numerous organizations, reflecting the spread of non-governmental peace movements in the United States and around the world. The Peace Collection also holds material in a wide variety of formats on subjects such as nonviolence, disarmament, women and peace, conscientious objection, and other reform movements.

Please use the appropriate password reset utility:

• Bryn Mawr patrons: http://password.brynmawr.edu
• Haverford patrons: https://accounts.haverford.edu/user/resetPassword
• Swarthmore patrons: http://password.swarthmore.edu

I received a login error.

Please verify your username and password and try to login again. If you’ve forgotten your college password, please use the appropriate password reset utility (above).

I logged-in to EZProxy successfully, but I still don’t have off-campus access to the database, electronic journal, e-book, etc. that I’m trying to use.

Please try these troubleshooting techniques in the order presented:

• Confirm that you are using a supported browser (see below) and that cookies are enabled in your browser.

  EZProxy supported browsers:

  • Netscape, 4.x or 7.x
  • Internet Explorer, 5.x and higher
  • Firefox or Mozilla, 1.x or higher
  • Safari, 1.x or higher
  • (AOL is not supported)
• Confirm that you are not logged in to VPN. The VPN session can disrupt the EZProxy service.
• End your current EZProxy session by closing your browser. Open your browser and begin a new session by navigating to the appropriate EZProxy Login page from: http://trilibpages.blogs.brynmawr.edu/off-campus-access/
• Log-in to the EZProxy service. From the “Login Successful” screen, navigate directly to the library catalog or database lists in our Research Guides by selecting the appropriate links.
• Avoid opening multiple browser windows or tabs, and excessive use of the browser’s forward and backward navigation buttons, as this can disrupt your EZProxy session.

If these troubleshooting steps do not resolve your EZProxy access problem, end your current EZProxy session by closing your browser. Open your browser and clear the cache. Begin a new session by navigating to the appropriate EZProxy Login page from: http://trilibpages.blogs.brynmawr.edu/off-campus-access/ and follow steps 4-5 above.
For further assistance, please email the appropriate contact:

• Bryn Mawr patrons: findit@brynmawr.edu
• Haverford patrons: library@haveford.edu
• Swarthmore patrons: serials@swarthmore.edu

In your email, please include the following information:

• The title of the electronic resource that you are trying to access from off-campus through EZProxy
• The name and version of your web browser
• The troubleshooting steps you attempted and their results
• Screenshots or copied text of any error messages that you encountered

Alternately, you can also submit the “Report problems” form linked from the FindIt menu and banner.

I’m on-campus and trying to connect to an e-book from Ebook Library (EBL). Why am I being asked to login to EZProxy?

Ebook Library (a.k.a. EBL) requires an additional level of login authentication to access e-books. The EZProxy system is currently being used to provide this additional level of authentication. Both on- and off-campus users will be prompted to login to EZProxy before gaining access to EBL e-book content.