Did Santa bring you an iPad this year? If so, you should take advantage of the thousands of ebooks in the library’s collection. Visit the ebooks@Furman guide to view a short video which gives step-by-step instructions for finding ebooks in the library catalog. Keep in mind, the look and functionality of ebook titles will vary by provider. See . . .Continue reading Ebooks at Furman
Category: eBooks
Inside the Presidential Debates
Once a month, the University of Chicago Press offers a free e-book via email. Theiroffering for October, is Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future by Newton N. Minow and Craig L. Lamay. From the publisher: Written with longtime collaborator Craig LaMay, this fascinating history offers readers for the first . . .Continue reading Inside the Presidential Debates
eBook Workshop for Faculty
Faculty Fridays: Work Smarter, Not Harder The Furman Libraries will be offering a series of workshops for faculty this Fall. These hands-on sessions, called Faculty Fridays, will highlight services and products to save you time and energy. From crafting better Moodle links to receiving search results in your email, we can show you how to . . .Continue reading eBook Workshop for Faculty
Top 10 ACLS Humanities E-Books
Jean-Hanore Fragonard’s “A Young Girl Reading (a Sony Ebook)” by T. Cavanaugh ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 3,300 full-text titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with twenty learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. ACLS Humanities E-Book . . .Continue reading Top 10 ACLS Humanities E-Books
9/11 E-book Collection
In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of September 11th, ebrary is providing open access to a collection of e-books related to the tragic events of that day. The 15 titles in this collection are displayed on the Library’s homepage in the rotating images of e-books. Throughout the month of September, library patrons may access and . . .Continue reading 9/11 E-book Collection
Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online has recently been added to the Library’s list of All Databases. Our subscription includes access to the Safari Basic Tech Library. Focused specifically on technology, it covers the most recent 3 years of content published by Safari.
Interested in eBooks?
Furman Libraries owns 14,000 (13,901 for those of you who aren’t into rounding off) electronic books. We’ve been collecting them for quite some time now but there’s a new quick and easy way to search for them. The search box on our home page now has a place to check for ebooks. Checking the “limit . . .Continue reading Interested in eBooks?