Organizing Materials in WorldCat Discovery
When you are searching for materials with WorldCat Discovery, you may want to make a list of items you are interested in pulling from the library shelves, accessing online through a library database, or reviewing at the end of a browsing session to see if they are appropriate for your research. You can do all of this by using the temporary lists function in WorldCat Discovery!
If you want to save materials for longer than a single browsing session (temporary lists will clear when you close your current window or shut down your device), you can also create up to 50 permanent lists that are stored in your library account. These lists can be organized for whatever you need, like a specific class, project, or a specific research topic you are interested in.
Creating and Managing Lists
You can add items to a temporary list from any WorldCat Discovery search result page. Click the star in the top right corner of the material's record to add it to a temporary list. If you change your mind, you can click the star again to remove it from your temporary list.
You can review your temporary list by clicking Saved Items at the top of your search results page.
This will show you all the items in your temporary list. From here you can click the title of any item to return to its entry in WorldCat Discovery. You can also delete items from your temporary list, email the saved items to yourself or another person, create a list of citations, or add these items to a permanent list.
You can create temporary lists even if you are not currently signed in to your account. However, you must sign-in to add these items to a permanent list. Click here to sign in to your library account using your full NSU email and your NSU password.
To create a new permanent list, click the plus sign at the top of your temporary list.. You can have up to 50 lists on a personal user account, so your lists can be for as specific or broad of a topic as you need.
Give the list a title that describes the theme, class, or project you are creating materials for. You can also give the list a more detailed description. Lists will be private by default.
Click save. You have a new list, and the selected saved items will be added to that list!
Adding Items to an Existing List
If you want to add saved items to an existing list, click move from the saved items menu.
Click the button to select the list you would like to add these items to. WorldCat Discovery will add these materials to your existing list and organize all materials on the list in alphabetical order.
Review Your Lists
To view your lists, click My Account under your name in the top right corner. Choose Saved Lists from the drop-down menu.
Select the list you would like to review.
Now you can view the listed materials, click the title of an item to return to its entry in WorldCat Discovery, email the list to yourself or others, create citations for selected items on the list, or move/delete selected items from the list.
Like any citation generator, WorldCat Discovery can be useful, but it is not a perfect tool. Always make sure all required information is present, correct and formatted correctly before you use an automatically generated citation.