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Another very helpful NCLive database is the netLibrary with over 22,000 books online including reference, scholarly, professional and classic titles such as Hamlet. To read books from this collection one must register and select an ID and Password. Registering for an electronic “library card” may be done from the netLibrary Homepage. Searching for books and previewing books does not require registration. NetLibrary is a valuable asset for accessing books when the public library is closed.

To Access the netLibrary, go to NCLive and click on the Browse Resources Tab. Click on the letter N and find the netLibrary entry.

Selecting netLibrary will gain access to the database.

Below is the netLibrary Homepage. You need to Create a Free Account if you have not already done so by using the link and following the directions provided. If you have an account, you may either Log In (from the link) or start a search to first preview what is available in the database. Note the language translation feature at the bottom of the page.

The Creating a Free Account Page looks like this. All Required fields* must be filled.

Click the Create Account button and complete the registration as directed.

A Basic Search using the Keyword field on cloning follows. Note Title, Author, and Full Text searches are also available as Basic Searches. Located on this page are a Help Button and a Search tips link if you need more detailed information regarding searching.

Two titles out of five results are shown below. Note that you may preview a book before you “check it out.” You may also sort a list of titles several different ways. Likewise, you have the options of revising this search or starting a new search from this page.

Clicking on the View this eBook link for 1. returns the following page. It shows the Table ofContents as the default setting. There is much more information under the other tabs.

The Search this eBook feature searches the entire book for any word you might enter.

See one page of twelve in which the word sheep appears. The eBook Details option will be covered in the context of the Advanced Search illustration below. There is an online Dictionary available and a place to take Notes as you are reading.

The eBook Details feature is illustrated in the Advance Search example to follow. Advanced searching permits looking for terms in the Subject, Title, Full Text, Author, and ISBNfields and in Boolean combinations. Limiters for Year, Publisher, and Language are also available.

Three of the results are shown here. Let’s take a look at the Show Details for number 1.

Selecting the option, Show Details provides basic bibliographic information (title, publisher, date, subject headings, etc.) about a publication.

At this point you may click on the options of View this eBook or Checkout for 4 Hours. You could also decide to view all the books in the database identified with any one of the three Subjects listed. You could click on the Children and violence link, for example. Selecting Check out for 4 Hours retrieves the screen below. At this point you must provide your User Name and Password since you are moving from previewing a book toactually reading it.Note the features on the Acrobat page allowing you to go to the next page, jump to any page, go back a page, and hide the Acrobat toolbar. You may also hide the left pane to better view/read a book page.

Printing and Copying Restrictions on eBooks

 

According to the netLibraryguidelines regarding copying, “you may print or copy one page at a time using your browser's print or copy functions. Or you may print by clicking the printer icon the top navigation bar.

Although you can print parts of an eBook, printing an entire eBook violates copyrightlaws. Precautions are taken to protect copyright laws; if a suspicious usage pattern indicative of excessive printing or copying is detected the activity is logged and the user is sent a copyright warning.”