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Overview 

Explore one of our three collections of eBooks.  All FREE for our students, faculty and staff.  The Library subscribes for you! 

  • eBrary Logo ebrary  - over 37,000 current ebooks in the Academic Complete collection.  Off-campus: Username/Password. Free ebrary reader plug-in required and downloable from ebrary website. Create your own Bookshelf account to save pages and highlight book passages.  Books can be viewed and limited pages printed without an account.  No check-out required, allowing multiple readers to access the same title. 
  • netLibrary Logo netLibrary - 1,788 current ebooks; plus, over 3,400 additional titles in the public domain. Includes Cliff Notes for literature.  Off-campus:  Username/Password.  Check out period is for 7 days with a personal netLibrary account or brief 15 minute viewing without check out.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library – small specialized collection of 43+ reference titles covering biography, crime, education, economics, history, law, politics, religion, psychology, sociology and more.  Off-campus:  ID/PIN number.

Note:  Look for ebook titles with the special ebook icons above, within the Library Catalog.  Read ebooks from computers with Internet access using a Web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer).  Ebrary requires a free ebrary reader plug-in available from the initial welcome screen.