About E-Books at Bush Library

Introduction: The following includes general information on using netLibrary.  For more detailed information,
click on the Help tab in netLibrary.

netLibrary and the CLIC Collection
netLibrary is the vendor which provides access to the CLIC collection:  As of September, 2004, our collection consists of more than 14,000 books on a variety of academic and popular topics.  Many of these books were purchased for Minnesota's libraries by the Minitex Library Information Network; the remainder were purchased by the CLIC consortium.  Most of these books, like the print books in our consortium's library collections, will be shared among the CLIC libraries.  The CLIC libraries will continue to purchase books to add to this collection.
 

Using netLibrary

Creating an Account / Logging in Searching for Books:  Search tips Previewing a Book

Checking out a Book Reading: Online | Offline Printing and Downloading

Creating an Account | Logging in
In order to check out a book, you will first need to Create a Free Account. If you are accessing netLibrary from off-campus you will first need to login to Hamline's proxy server.

Search Tips
You can search by Keyword, Title, Author, or Full Text from the main search screen.  netLibrary has created a useful guide to searching their site:  Search Tips

"View this eBook"
You can browse the table of contents and text of the book for 15 minutes without logging in to netLibrary.  Once the 15 minutes is up, it will be "released" for possible access by another patron.  When you have finished looking at the book, click close e-book.

Checking out a Book
Only one person at a time can actually have access to the full text of a book.  You will need to "check out" the book, just as you would a "real" book.  The check out period is 24 hours.  To check out a book, simply click on check out

Reading
Online:  When you first "open" the e-book, the default display shows the text of the book in the left frame and the table of contents in the right.  Your command and viewing options are at the top of the screen.  You can continue to view the book in the default display or change it to display just the table of contents or the text of the book.  From the text frame, you can click on next page to continue to read, or you can jump to a specific page.  From the toolbar at the top, you can search the full text of the book.  When you are done reading the book, click close from the menu at the top.

Printing and Downloading
You may print out selections of e-books, just as you can photocopy parts of "real" books. However, in order to promote fair use (as defined by copyright laws), there are limits to how much of a book can be printed, downloaded, or copied: you'll need to do so one page at a time.  The netLibrary program can detect any excessive copying; you will receive a warning and may be denied access to the database if you abuse this privilege.

Handy Features: netLibrary Notes & requesting notification
The Notes feature lets you annotate any page of an eBook, save your notes for future reference, or print your notes as a text file. The requesting notification feature is helpful if the ebook you want is currently checked out. It will notify you via email once the item is available for check out.

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Last updated:09.29.04/kgs