Digital Archives Guide: My Collection

One benefit to having an account on the library's Digital Archives is the collections feature. You can save items for later by adding them to private collections, which you can organize to your liking. This guide contains instructions for adding items to a collection, creating new collections, and organizing them.

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Step 1: Log in to your Digital Archives account.

Step 2: Locate an item you want to save to a collection.

Step 3: Look for the star to the left of the item display area.

Step 4: Click on the star to add the item to your general collection.

Step 5: The item is now added to your collection.

Step 6: To organize your collections, click on My Collection from the dark gray sidebar.

Step 7: To create a new subcollection, click "Start a New Collection" and then give it a name.

Step 8: You can selectively add saved items to different collections by using the checkboxes to choose items, and the dropdown box to choose the collection.

Step 9: You can create multiple collections, and save items to more than one collection.