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eBooks!
No trucks pulled up to the library door and no boxes were
unpacked, but the SCC library staff has recently added almost 7500 books to the
collection. Electronic books
– you might as well love ‘em because they’re here to stay! Encourage
your students to use ebooks, and do accept them as the valid research sources
they are.
Twelve reasons to love eBooks:
- Ebooks
provide content on topics that the library would not be able to cover in
print.
- We
can buy more ebook titles than we could in print because we buy ebooks in
discounted bundles.
- Some
ebooks are out of print and only available electronically.
- Ebooks
are available to all registered library users through any web connection 24
hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Distance
education students can use ebooks without coming to the library.
- You
can assign a class to use an ebook without placing a hard copy of the book on
reserve.
- You
can search the entire content of an ebook for a word or a phrase.
- You
can type and save marginal notes in an ebook notepad.
- You
can print out pages from ebooks and read them in hard copy.
- Ebooks
are stable; they are photo images of the hardcopy originals and cannot be
altered.
- Ebooks
cannot be lost or stolen.
- You
will never pay an overdue fine on an ebook.
The library has actually listed about a thousand ebooks in LOIS,
the book catalog, for about a year through the History eBooks
Project, so you may have
already used one. Finding ebooks in
LOIS is
simple:
- Search
for a book in LOIS by keyword, author, or title, just as you
would search for hard copy. Try a keyword search, for example, international
business.
- If
you want to retrieve only ebooks, set the "Material Type"
limiter on the keyword search screen to EBOOKS.
- Find
a title in your results list that includes the phrase [electronic resource].
- Click
on the book title, and then click on the link that says “View E-BOOK.”
- If
you are on campus, the book will open.
If you are off-campus, you will type in your library card number
and library PIN to open the book.
- You
can also search for ebooks in the library
databases. Scroll down to History eBook Project or NetLibrary.
| Index Spring
2006 |
| Quiz | Reserves |
Library Instruction | Library
Experience | eBooks | ID
Cards | New Materials
| Databases | DE
Barcodes | Turnitin | Forgotten
Words | Web Sitings
| Library
Links |