I have done lectures and prepare LIBGUIDES for students of two English 2100 professors, Prof. Grumet and Prof. Entes. Prof. Entes has asked her students to set up an alert in a database and to bring in confirmation of the alert being set up. Alerts are features that can be set up on the Ebsco and Proquest databases, as well as others. I showed the classes how to do an alert on Ebsco. You first have to establish an accout and then do a search in a database. You can then select to have an alert sent by email or RSS feed, and the emails with alerts to new articles are either received daily, weekly or monthly. If no new articles are found, you receive an email that no articles were added with your search terms. I thought I would share this request in case students come to the reference desk for help. If you need any help with the alerts, please let me know.
News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
