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Electronic Books (ebooks)

The PCC Library has 14,000 digital books (books in electronic format) available to registered borrowers.

To become a PCC registered borrower:

  • Take your PCC ID and go to a PCC campus -- Cortez, Fremont, Pueblo
  • Go to the Library at Pueblo or Fremont, or ask for assistance at Cortez
  • Indicate you would like to register for Library Services
  • Certain personal information will be entered in the circulation system. 
  • You will be issued a bar code that will be placed on the back of your PCC ID.

You may also become a PCC registered borrower without going to a campus.

  • Go to the PCC Library web page  /CampusResources/Library
  • Within the screen's left column, select Registration
  • Complete and submit the Online Borrower Application form.
  • You will be registered and your patron bar code will be mailed to you.

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These digital books may be accessed three ways:

  1. Visit netLibrary from a PCC computer to browse, search, or view ebooks. This does not require logging into netLibrary. Go to netLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com/
  2.  Visit netLibrary as a patron.
    · Patrons are members of affiliated libraries who have established a user account with
      netLibrary.
    If you are a patron, you can:
    · Check out materials from your library's collection to view online
    · Search or browse netLibrary's entire collection of eBooks
    · Modify preferences and establish Bookshelves in My netLibrary.
  3. From the PCC Library Online Catalog either on or off-campus.
    ·  Search the online catalog. Electronic books are identified as "ebook" on the far
       right side of the screen.

 A partial catalog record is provided below as an example: 

Sajo, Andras, 1949-

ebook

Limiting Government: An Introduction to Constitutionalism

FORMAT38 1999

URL

 http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=8787

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To check out eBooks

            ·  Click on the URL in the catalog record (located near the bottom of the catalog record)

URL

 http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=8787

· This will take you to the BCR/OCLC NetLibrary web page.
· Select LOG IN in the upper right corner of the screen.

 Options.  You may

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Browse the eBook online
(borrow for a short time)

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Check out and read online
(add to "eBookshelf")  

Features of NetLibrary include:

  • Searching the PCC Account collection without returning to the PCC Library Web Catalog 
  • Using Advanced Search for more search options
  • Creating an eBookshelf or My Favorites list
  • Using the Online Dictionary while reading. The American Heritage® Dictionary is embedded in every netLibrary eBook, which means you can find the definition of a word while reading an eBook!

For more information, go to http://www.netlibrary.com/ and click on "Search Tips"

 

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