February/March 2001

Introducing .....

netLibrary

Project Gutenberg and similar efforts have been making whole books available on the Internet for years now, but in most instances the books thus presented, though often classics, lack the currency and features readers usually desire in electronic books. Typically they are older books lapsed from copyright, and their contents cannot be readily searched. Not so with netLibrary, to which you will find a link on our Books, CDs, Videos page.  

NetLibrary is an online database containing the full texts of new and recent books, as well as classics, from hundreds of commercial and university presses. The books, though virtual, are identical in content and appearance to their traditionally published, ink-and-paper editions, and can be thoroughly searched with a few keystrokes. Through netLibrary you can borrow a book for a specified period, usually from four to twenty-four hours, and either view it online or download it for viewing with special software available at the site. You will find both a public collection of books, available in fulltext to anyone who sets up an account, and a special collection, available only to users who set up their accounts at Parkland College computers. With either collection, the books available are on virtually any topic, from chemistry to resumes to medicine and history, cooking and javascript, ethics and pets.

Anyone with a web connection and a browser can search netLibrary and preview books. To borrow a volume, however, you must set up an account. For access to the Parkland Collection, your individual account must be established using an on-campus computer. Just come to campus, login to netLibrary, and set up your account. After the initial setup is completed, you can use your account from any browser-equipped computer connected to the Internet. 

Take a look at netLibrary soon, and be sure to establish your account. E-books are increasingly common, and now at Parkland you will find them not only by logging into the netLibrary site. A special set of  roughly 1400 netLibrary books has been added to the Library's online catalog, where you can look for them by author, title, or subject, just as you would search in our catalog for any physical book in the collection.  For quick access to the netLibrary collection in our online catalog, search by the subject "electronic books."

Questions about netLibrary may be directed to our librarians at the Information Desk.

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