The Uni High Library offers a wide range of resources that students are able to use online from home. This brief guide provides basic instructions, with links to more extensive help sources. Many of the Library's databases require users to enter a network ID and password when searching from off campus. In most cases, student Net IDs are the same as the Uni logon ID name, but the password is different. The University Library online catalog provides access to the Uni High Library collection as well as a consortium of 42 other libraries in Illinois.
Users can choose between a web interface to the catalog or a telnet interface.
The telnet interface gives Uni students an important advantage because it allows them to limit their search results to materials that are in the Uni Library collection. Students also need the 14-digit bar code number from their Uni ID and their PIN number, which was initialized as the last four digits of their social security number. Library staff can help students with their bar code and PIN numbers if they have problems. Students need to be aware that when they access the telnet interface from home, the default settings are not the same as when they use the computers in the Uni Library. The Uni Library holdings will not appear in blue and the location for picking up requested books does not default to Uni.