Easy to use E-Books!

 Easy to use E-Books!

     The Los Rios Libraries provide you with access to thousands of E-Books . These E-Books are easy to use through the Library Catalog or Online Research Databases.  You have convenient access to the library’s collection of electronic books 24 hours seven days a week.  You can read an E-Book with Internet access at the library or from home with your student identification number and password.   Click HERE to see a video on using E-Books!

What is an E-Book 

     An E-Book is an electronic book just like a “regular” book with chapters and a table of contents, but you can read it online! 

How to Find E-Books 

     Finding E-Books in the Los Rios Library Catalog is easy.  Find an E-Book title by searching the  Library Catalog .   Each E-Book is clearly marked by the location (Online E-Book), and the icon (Just look for the book, with a green computer screen and the word E-Book).         

You can also find E-Books the library’s Research Databases with NetLibrary and the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project!  

Reading E-Books Online at home 

     Reading E-Books on your home computer is easy to do.  Once you find an E-Book in the Library Catalog, select the “View E-Book” link, and you will be prompted to enter your student identification number and password in the Research Databases: Login for Off-Campus Access screen.   Select the E-Book you want to read and you can instantly read the book online!  

Note: If you try to access an E-Book and it isn’t available, check back later. Only one person can view the E-Book at a time. 

It is as easy as that!  If you need additional help using E-Books, please ask your librarian!

-Posted by Caroline Harker

Women’s History Month!

It’s Women’s History Month, a time to consider the accomplishments and contributions of women in our society, and all month long we have been celebrating WHM across the CRC campus! Hopefully, you have had the opportunity to enjoy some of the Women’s History Month presentations from the past couple of weeks, but, if not, there are still a few more things to check out.

Come to the CRC library to see the Women’s History Month book display, which features a variety of books on the experiences of women in our society throughout history. We couldn’t possibly fit all of the books on women in history on one table, so come talk to a librarian if there is a person or topic you would like to know more about. Also, check out the quick facts on women posted by the display.

Next Wednesday there is an Exploring Global Culture film showing of these titles, “Persepolis/The Day I Became a Women/The Apple: Iranian Women Filmmakers.” This showing will be held from 12-1:20pm in L111.  

Whatever way you choose to celebrate Women’s History Month, take a moment to consider the women who have impacted your life and who have shaped US history.

Posted by Emily Bond

Library Tip of the Day: Online Encyclopedias!

Do you need quick and basic information on a topic? Has your instructor asked that you not use Wikipedia?  Where are you supposed to go for information? Well- through the library you have access to some great Online Encyclopedias that can give you what you need!.

Encyclopedias provide you with quick overviews of topics without all the muss and fuss of looking through an entire book or scrolling through pages and pages of websites. Through encyclopedias you can generally find helpful facts like WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN. You can also often find related entries which help you expand your search and jumpstart your research for a paper or project. Here are a few of the online encyclopedias available through the CRC library.

Encyclopedia Britannica (with Merriam Webster Dictionary entries and a directory of related websites).  Find brief entries, definitions, quick facts, related websites and more through this online encyclopedia!

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: This encyclopedia not only has tons of information, but it’s also easy to search, print, email, and even cite your sources from this database!

Oxford Reference Online Premium: Not only do you have access to encyclopedias (several of them), but also you can easily access a dictionary, thesaurus, timelines for history, maps, quotations, and more!

You can access all of these encyclopedias by selecting the “Find Articles with Research Databases” link on the CRC Library website. Then select the Reference and Statistics section. From there select the encyclopedia you would like to use. You will be prompted to sign in with your student ID and unified password (the same password you use for eServices).

Remember in addition to all of the great, convenient online encyclopedias, the CRC library also has tons of great printed encyclopedias in our collection. Come by the library and check out our Reference collection. Don’t forget to ask librarian if you need help!

Happy searching everyone!

Posted by Emily Bond

Sailor Moon in the Library?!

You may not realize it but CRC has a great variety of extra curricular resources here on campus like student organized clubs and an abundance of  interesting materials available here in the library.

This week the Library has been promoting  and displaying artwork from the Anime Club that meets here on campus. This has given us an opportunity to also showcase the many how-to art books we have here for checkout.

Although everyone has their own preference in art and story genre, Anime art and stories tend to be understood and identified with by many young people in today’s generation. I’ve heard that  many people find that anime has a lot more depth than other cartoons because they work so deeply with character development: speaking to the emotions of many of their readers. Anime also touches on valuable life lessons such as death, betrayal, sense of justice, friendship, and most importantly the idea that nothing is truly “black and white”. Fans feel that there is a freedom of expression and opinion in Anime that is not found elsewhere.

Countless young people today are interested in expressing themselves not just physically, through the diversity of clothing styles, but how they are portrayed electronically to the world on the internet. Because of this there has been an outbreak in blogging and thus writing and picture posting; and many people are beginning to express themselves through stories and drawings. Perhaps some of you reading would like to learn more about drawing characters and writing stories!

If so please feel free to come check out our art and book display. Some of the titles you will find here are:

• People and Poses by Buddy Scalera
• Cartoon Basics by Duane Barnhart
• Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
• How to Draw Manga by The Society for the Study of Manga Techniques

And Many More! Come and see for yourself. . .

Posted by

 Carolyn Miller

Textbooks in Course Reserves

Welcome to Fall semester!!!  The library has a selection of course textbooks that students may borrow.  To find out whether or not the library has your textbook, search in our library catalog’s Course Reserves. 

Textbooks may be borrowed for 2 hours at  a time.  Bring your Student Access Card!  You will need it to borrow textbooks and other library materials.  (If you do not have a FREE Student Access Card, you can get one from the Admissions & Records office.)  The library has three copiers and students may make copies (each copy is 10 cents). 

If the library does not have your textbook on Reserve, ask your professor if he/she can donate a copy to the library to be placed on Reserve.  If you have current copies of the textbooks being used, feel free to donate it to the library to be placed on Reserve and help out your fellow students!

Professors, if you would like to bring a copy of your textbook to the library, please fill out the Reserves Form and bring it with you when you come to the library to drop off your book.  Thank you for helping our students succeed!

 

Posted by Lily Kun