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Online Directory: Public Access

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Online Directory: Public Access

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Although other browsers may work, we recommend that you use the following browsers for optimal performance:

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Public Directory

The public directory is available to the general public and provides limited access to information about Wellesley College faculty, staff, and students. If you have a Wellesley College domain username and password, and would like to use a more extensive search with additional features, please log in and use the Campus Directory.

Simple Search

The simple search allows you to find faculty, staff, or students quickly using one or more keywords. To generate a search:

  1. Select Faculty/Staff or Student (you must make a selection or you will receive an error message).

  2. Enter one or more keywords into the search field. If you're not sure of the spelling of a name, you can enter parts of the names as well, e.g., "kath" to look for "Kathy" or "Kathleen."

  3. Choose whether you want to search for all entries in your search field, or at least one entry. To search for all entries, select all words ("AND" search). To search for at least one entry, select at least one word ("OR" search).

    For example: If you know the person's full name or part of it, you would type it in the search field (e.g., "Wendy Wellesley") and use the AND search. If you only know that the person's name is Wendy and that she works in the Chemistry department, you could try an AND search using the keywords "Wendy Chemistry," and your results would contain all Wendys with information relating to Chemistry. However if you entered "Wendy Chemistry" using an OR search, your results would contain all Wendys as well as other people with information relating to Chemistry. NOTE: If you want to search by department, we recommend that you use the advanced search, as it has an extensive pull-down menu of options (e.g., "Center for Work and Services").

    When searching for faculty and staff, you can search for their first and last name, e-mail address, job title, Department, phone number, and office location. When searching for students, you can search for their first, last, and middle name, and e-mail address.

  4. Under Rows/Page, select how many results you want to appear on each page. The maximum number of results that can appear per page is 200.

  5. Click the Find button when you are ready to process the search. If you want to start over, click the Reset button, and all fields will be cleared. You can also click the Reset button if you are finished with a search and would like to clear the fields and search results to generate another search.

Advanced Search

The advanced search allows you to find faculty, staff, or students by searching under specific categories. The main difference between the simple search and the advanced search is in the way you can search for people. The simple search gives you one field to enter keywords, but the advanced search allows you to search under several different categories. However, the search results for the simple and advanced search contain the same categories of information. To generate a search:

  1. Select Faculty/Staff or Student (you must make a selection or you will receive an error message).

    Depending on whether you select Student or Faculty/Staff, different search fields will become available. When searching for faculty and staff, you can search for their first, last, and middle name, e-mail address, phone extension, job title, and Department. When searching for students, you can search for their first, last, and middle name, and e-mail address.

  2. Fill in one or more of the search fields available. Use the Department pulldown menu to choose from available departments and offices. Please note that when entering e-mail addresses, you will only need to type the username and not the full address.

    NOTE: The advanced search automatically uses an "AND" search, meaning that it will only return results that contain ALL the search fields that you specify.

  3. Under Rows/Page, select how many results you want to appear on each page. The maximum number of results that can appear per page is 200.

  4. Click the Find button when you are ready to process the search. If you want to start over, click the Reset button, and all fields will be cleared. You can also click the Reset button if you are finished with a search and would like to clear the fields and search results to generate another search.

Search Results

Your search results will display with your search criteria highlighted and bolded in red. The categories of your search results will vary depending on whether you are searching for a student or faculty/staff member.

Students: Search results for students will display the first and last name of the student. To view more information, look under the More column and click on the flashlight icon . A small window will appear with more detailed information about the student such as her middle name and e-mail address.

Faculty/Staff: Search results for faculty and staff will display the first and last name, job title, and Department. To view more information, look under the More column and click on the flashlight icon . A small window will appear with more detailed information about the faculty/staff such as middle name, work number, office location, and e-mail address.

NOTE: E-mail addresses are not displayed immediately on the main results page in order to protect you from e-mail spammers (it makes their job much harder).

To sort your results, click on the category heading and the results will be sorted by that column. For instance, if you click on the heading Name, your results will be listed alphabetically from A-Z. Click the heading again, and it will be sorted from Z-A.

The maximum number of results that can be returned in the public directory is 400, in order to protect the college from e-mail spammers. If your search returns more than one page of results, use the pulldown menu in the top right corner of your results section to jump to other pages. Click the Next button to jump to the next page.

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