Aeon Instructions

Registering as a Patron:

  1. Open your web browser to the Aeon web interface
  2. Choose option for UCLA users or Non-UCLA users
  3. Click on the First Time User link
  4. After reading the policies and procedures page (make sure to click the checkbox at the bottom), click on the First Time Users Here button
  5. Fill in the New User Registration form and then click the Submit Information button at the bottom of the page.

Placing Reading Room Requests:

Catalog Requesting

  1. After logging into your Aeon account, click the Request Through Library Catalog button located under Requests in the header.
  2. Search for an item and then click the Clark Library Request button located on the page.
  3. Review the request details, noting the required fields.
  4. In the Request Information section’s Appointment field, select an appointment time.
  5. Click the Submit Request button.
  6. Follow Steps 1-5 to submit additional requests.

Unprocessed/Uncatalogued Requesting

  1. In the Aeon Main Menu, click the Can’t Find It in the Catalog? button located under Requests in the header.
  2. On the request form, fill in the necessary information for a request, noting the required fields.
  3. In the Request Information section’s Appointment field, select an appointment time.
  4. Click the Submit Request button.
  5. Follow Steps 1-4 to submit additional requests.

Finding Aid Requesting

  1. In the Aeon Main Menu, click the Request Through OAC Finding Aids button located under Requests in the header.
  2. Search for a collection located at the Clark.
  3. Click the Request Items button at the top of the record.
  4. Once the finding aid loads in Aeon, click the checkboxes next to items of interest in the Contents List.
  5. In the Ready to Request? section, click Yes, Send to Library, and select an appointment time in the Appointment field.
  6. Click the Submit Request button.

Place Request for Digitization

Unprocessed/Uncatalogued Requesting

  1. In the Aeon Main Menu, click the Can’t Find It in the Catalog? button located under Requests in the header.
  2. In the Item Information section, click the Can’t Visit? Request Reproduction button.
  3. On the request form, fill in the necessary information for a request, noting the required fields.
  4. Complete the additional reproduction fields, including the Description of Reproduction and File Format.
  5. Click the Submit Request button.
  6. Follow Steps 1-5 to submit additional requests.

Catalog Requesting

  1. Search for an item and then click the Clark Library Request button located on the page.
  2. In the Item Information section, click the Can’t Visit? Request Reproduction button.
  3. Review the request details, noting the required fields.
  4. Complete the additional reproduction fields, including the Description of Reproduction and File Format.
  5. Click the Submit Request button.
  6. Follow Steps 1-5 to submit additional requests.

Finding Aid Requesting

  1. In the Aeon Main Menu, click the Request through OAC Finding Aids button located under Requests in the header.
  2. Search for a collection located at the Clark.
  3. Click the Request Items button at the top of the record.
  4. Once the finding aid loads in Aeon, click the checkboxes next to items of interest in the Contents List.
  5. In the Ready to Request? section, click the Request Reproduction option.
  6. Complete the additional reproduction fields, including the Description of Reproduction and File Format.
  7. Click Submit Request.
  8. Follow Steps 1-7 to submit additional requests.