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

Scary Stories @ your library

Image reproduced from Project Gutenberg: The Raven and other Selections

The library has all the scary stories you could wish for! Please search our Book Catalog for books and e-books that will haunt you.

Classics:

• The Raven and other Selections by Edgar Allan Poe
• The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Dracula by Bram Stoker

Other "scary" treats:

• Be afraid, be very afraid : the book of scary urban legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
• Fear : a cultural history by Joanna Bourke
• The essential Stephen King a ranking of the greatest novels, short stories, movies, and other creations of the world's most popular writer by Spignesi
• Evil : inside human violence and cruelty by Roy F. Baumeister
• Good and evil: an absolute conception by Raimond Gaita

And MORE!

Happy Halloween!

-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

Ebook of the Month: August 2008

The Ebook of the Month for August is DotCom divas: E-business insights from the visionary women founders of 20 net ventures.

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

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.

Ebook of the Month: June 2008

The library has a lot of great e-books available! The e-book of the month for June is The G Quotient: why gay executives are excelling as leaders-- and what every manager needs to know by Kirk Snyder. It's available through 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

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

Question of the Week: Citing an E-Book

Q: How do I cite an e-book in APA style?

A: It's a lot like citing a regular book, but you'll need to add the date that you read the book and the e-book provider or URL. Here's an example:

McKeever, M. P. (2005). How to write a business plan. Berkeley: Nolo. Retrieved March 14, 2008, from Netlibrary database.

The in-text citation will be just like a book. You'll use the author's last name, year, and page number.

For more help and info, take a look at the APA guide. There are links to more APA guides at the end of that guide. You can also contact your librarian.

Good luck on your final papers and projects!

-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.

Website Added!

We've added a new link to the Library's Recommended Websites.

Gutenberg-E
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/
Columbia University Press has teamed up with the Amercian Historical Society to offer free hisotorical e-books! Search or browse through titles like:

• Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
• Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• "I Saw a Nightmare..." Doing Violence to Memory
• ... and many more!

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

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

E-book Trial Available!

We have trial access to Greenwood e-book collection until Feb. 29! The library is hoping to purchase some of these e-books. We'd love to hear what you think. You can comment here or contact your librarian.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

GVRL Trial Database

We have trial access to the entire collection of Gale Virtual Reference Library books until Feb. 13.

Feel free to browse or search this collection. Let us know what you think! Leave a comment or contact your librarian.

We want to add books to our collection that support your classes. If you know of a book that you think the library should own, let us know!

The Library already has many e-books including about 40 from Gale Virtual Reference Library. You can search for them in the Online Catalog or the Gale database.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

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

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

Ebook of the month for November

The ebook of the month at Richfield is The Presidents: a Reference History. Ebooks are available through MnPALS, the online catalog, 24 hours a day with your email login info.
Ask your librarian if you need more information, or look here.