Guest Accounts - Users with inappropriate email addresses

Please note that if a user comes to the desk to request a guest or LIRA account and has a threatening email address (such as this actual example: machinegunetiquette@gmail.com) please do not issue them an account.  In such cases, if they complain, to refer them either to security or to ask them to contact Sandra Langlands, the Director of the library at s.langlands.melvin@utoronto.ca.

Guest Accounts

There are Library and Internet Research Accounts (LIRA) and Guest Accounts.

This post pertains to Guest Accounts


1) “Create a general GUEST account” – allows access to all public PCs
This account is for:
· U of T students, faculty, and staff who have forgotten their UTORid/UTORmail password when the Information Commons Help Desk is closed.
· U of T students, faculty, and staff who have just created their UTORid account. There is a lag time between creation and activation of the accounts.
· Direct Borrowers and Continuing Studies Students who are waiting for their PINs to be reset.
· Visiting scholars such as grad students and faculty from other universities and research institutions who have an institutional id and who are not Direct Borrowers.


2) Who can create a guest account?
● Staff who work on the Reference side of the Information Desk



3) How to create an account::
a) Ask patron for valid government issued photo ID (e.g. OHIP card, TTC student metropass, high school ID card, etc) - an account cannot be created unless this ID is presented
b) Go to http://peas.icicle.utoronto.ca/ (Please bookmark this for easy access since
it is not linked from our webpage)
c) The required information is patron name, email and university affiliation