Princeton Personal Librarians

Princeton University

Sending Emails to Your Students


  1. Log in to my.princeton.edu
  2. From the top menu, choose Groups –> Personal Librarian Program
  3. From the left side menu, click Members
  4. From the available filters, choose Member Tags and select your NetID from the list
  5. To send an email to specific class years, choose Year Grad. From the filters, select the year or years you would like to email
  1. Some of you may have been assigned a targeted cohort of students based on their athletic affiliation or FSI status. To email these students separately, you will need to do some additional filtering by Member Tag. If you have not been assigned a cohort, proceed to step 9
  2. After selecting your NetID, return to the Member Tag filter and select Contains AND at the top
  3. Scroll down and select the tag for your cohort.
    • Example: FSI or MSO (Men’s Soccer)
    • Note: If you need to filter out a selection of students, continue scrolling down through the Member Tags until you see Does Not Contain OR AND. From here you can filter out students with particular tags by selecting the AND option and the relevant tag
  4. If your list looks correct, click the checkbox to select all
    • Note: Click the Select all [#] Emails option below if all members have not loaded on the page, otherwise you might only have the first 20 or so selected
  5. From the top of the list, click Send Email
  6. Choose Email Composer
  7. Under Choose a “From” email address, select your email from the drop down menu
  8. Select an Introduction from the drop down menu. If choosing this option, remember to delete any greeting you may have added to the body of your message (the new greeting will automatically appear at the very top of the email)
  9. Under Compose your email, fill in the subject line
  10. Select from the list of templates in the content box below
  11. Make any further modifications to your desired template
  12. Scroll to the bottom of the page
  13. Choose Preview it first
  14. Finally, click Save and Send
    • You will receive a confirmation email when sent

  • To review your sent email, return to the left side menu and click Emails –> Sent. Here you can review all sent emails and some corresponding statistics, including:
    • total number of recipients
    • percentage of emails that have been opened by the recipients
    • number of clicks on links
    • date and time sent