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Text Notices
Get notices from the Library via text
The Library will text you when:
- Items you have requested are ready for pickup.
- Items are due or overdue.
You may text the library to:
- Renew items.
- Find a book, DVD, CD or audiobook in a Pierce County Library.
Choose these message options:
- Send and receive in English or Spanish.
- Receive notices for more than one library card.
All you need to get started:
- A phone that can send a text message to an e-mail address.
- Subscription to text messaging with your wireless carrier. This service is free from the Library. Standard text rates apply.
To sign up using your cell phone
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1. Enter Shoutbomb (with email address pcl@shoutbomb.com) as a contact in your phone. 2. Text the word SIGNUP to the new contact, pcl@shoutbomb.com. 3. Text your library card number. 4. Text your PIN number. 5. It will also ask for your e-mail address. Texting your e-mail address is optional. |
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TIP: You can combine steps 2, 3, and 4 into a single text using a plus sign between parts. | |
To sign up online
Fill out and submit this form to receive text message notifications about your library account.
To find a book, DVD, CD or audiobook in a Pierce County Library
If you want to know, from any location, if a book, DVD or audiobook is available at a Pierce County Library:
Text ISBN, a space, and then the book’s 10- or 13-digit ISBN number. This will be coded on the item, e.g., ISBN 0375425969.
For music CDs: Text UPC, a space, and then the CD’s 12-digit UPC code that appears near the barcode, e,g., UPC 602498621882.
The service will reply and tell you which libraries have copies of the material or whether copies are not currently available.
How to send and receive texts
When you receive a text notice, follow the prompts.
To send a text to the library, you may use these words:
| English | Spanish | Description |
| ADDCARD | ADDCARD | Add a secondary library card to your notification account |
| DROPCARD | DROPCARD | Remove a secondary library card |
| HOLDS | MANTENER | Hold notices Opt In/Out |
| IOWEU | TEDEBO | See the current fine total on your account |
| ISBN | ISBN | Library catalog search by ISBN |
| NOTICES | AVISOS | Current status of all your Opt In/Out services |
| OVERDUE | ATRASADO | Overdue notice Opt In/Out |
| QUIT | SALIR | Stop this text notices service |
| RENEW | RENOVAR | Renew notices Opt In/Out |
| RESEND | REENVIAR | Resend the last message |
| SIGNUP | REGISTRESE | Register for this text notices service |
| SWITCHPHONE | CAMBIARTELEFONO | Change the phone number receiving texts |
| UPC | UPC | Library catalog search by UPC on music CDs |
TIP: You can simplify the steps (and reduce your request to only one text message) for the ADDCARD, DROPCARD, and QUIT commands. Simply type the command followed immediately by a plus sign, your library card number, another plus sign, and your PIN.
Example: ADDCARD+29093123456789+1111.
(Use YOUR numbers instead of the those in the example, of course.)
More information
The Library provides this text notification service via Shoutbomb. For more information go to http://www.shoutbomb.com/.