Finding E-Books

Looking for an e-book? The library has thousands of e-books available to you from on campus or at home.

Search for e-books in:

• The GU/MSB Catalog (These e-books are available for all members of the Globe Education Network, not just GU/MSB.) View this new 5-minute instructional video for details. You'll find over 7,500 e-books here.
• Books 24x7 - find over 20,000 business and information technology e-books here.
• Library databases - this 360 Search box can make it easy to search databases that have large e-book collections.

Please contact your librarian for more information or with questions.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Books 24x7 Celebrates 20,000 titles!

Books 24x7 now has over 20,000 e-books!

Books 24x7 offers business and information technology e-books. Additional e-books can be found in the GU/MSB library catalog. There are over 7,000 e-books available in the library catalog!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Over 7,000 E-Books Available!

The Library's e-books collection is growing! You can now find 7,285 e-books in the Online Catalog!

These E-Books cover a wide range of topics and subject areas. To find e-books you'll need to go to the Online Catalog and limit your library to search to "MSB e-books." It's circled in red in the image below.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact your librarian.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

E-Book of the Month! Shirmer Encyclopedia of Film

July: E-book of the Month
Shirmer Encyclopedia of Film

This book is available through Gale Virtual Reference Library (searchable in the Online Catalog).
Please contact your librarian if you have questions about how to use e-books.

E-book of the month: Mexicans & Americans: Cracking the cultural code

The library has a lot of great e-books available! The e-book of the month for May is Mexincans & Americans: Cracking the cultural code by Ned Crouch. It's availalble in NetLibrary. You can search for it in the Online Catalog.

Are you interested in what new books the library has recently purchased? Take a look at our LibraryThing page!

-Erica Nutzman, Richfield Librarian

& Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Happy Earth Day!

Celebrate Earth Day with an e-book about the environment! Learn to become more eco-friendly.

Here are some of the e-book titles you'll find in the library:

• Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
• The State of the Earth by Paul Keith Conkin
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Environmental Science
• Encyclopedia of Environment and Society
• Green Giants? Environmental policies of the United States and the European Union by Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure
• Environmental Planning and Management by Christian N. Madu
• Calculated Risks: The toxicity and human health risks of chemicals in our environment by Joseph V. Rodricks
• The New Accountability: Environmental responsibility across borders by Michael R. Mason

There are many more! You can search the library catalog to find more e-books and books at all of the campus libraries.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

E-Book of the Month

April's e-book is Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll.

This book is available through NetLibrary. Find a link to it in the Online Catalog!

Enjoy!
-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

E-Book of the Month: March

Ebook of the Month: March
Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease

March Is National MS Education & Awareness Month
This book is available through NetLibrary.
See this guide on how to use ebooks or ask your librarian!

Top 10 reasons e-books ROCK from Epublishers Weekly (and summarized by iLibrarian):

1. Ebooks promote reading.
2. Ebooks are good for the environment.
3. Ebooks preserve books.
4. Ebooks, faster to produce than paper books, allow readers to read books about current issues and events.
5. Ebooks are easily updateable.
6. Ebooks are searchable.
7. Ebooks are portable.
8. Ebooks (in the form of digital audio books) free you to do other activities while you are listening.
9. Ebooks can be printable.
10. Ebooks defy time: they can be delivered almost instantly.

Ebook of the month: February

The ebook of the month for February, in honor of Black History Month, is Harlem Renaissance. This is a Gale Virtual Reference Library title, accessible through the library's catalog. Ask your local librarian if you need help accessing this book, or look here.
-- by Erica Nutzman

Ebook of the Month: January

The ebook of the month for January is the Encyclopedia of espionage, intelligence and security. This is a Gale Virtual Reference Library title, accessible through the library's catalog. Ask your local librarian if you need help accessing this book, or look here.
-- by Erica Nutzman

The Libraries now have a LibraryThing account! Each month we will add more of our new books there so you can see covers, read reviews, and find out what the Libraries are adding to the collection. Each title is tagged with the month it was added and the campus it belongs to. You can go here to see our profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/GUMSBLibrary and here to see the books: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/GUMSBLibrary. There are now 40 new books on LibraryThing. You should contact your local librarian if you want to borrow any of these titles. Please let us know what you think about this new service!

By Erica Nutzman

Ebook of the Month: December

The ebook of the month for December is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This is a NetLibrary title, accessible through the library's catalog. Ask your local librarian if you need help accessing this book, or look here.

-- by Erica Nutzman

New Books!

The Library's added over 300 new books last month!!! Wow!

Take a look at a couple of the highlights or go ahead and search the catalog. We're working hard to add new books every month. If you have feedback or questions about library books, please contact your campus librarian.

Happy Reading!!!

- by Elaine Settergren