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Resources Toolbox: Books & Media

The Library provides efficient access to books, e-books, audio CDs, DVDs, videotapes and other materials through its catalog and licensed e-book collections like NetLibrary and ebrary.

Use this page to try out various links and searches for books and media items, and copy the code to place links or searches in your own Web pages.

 Catalog Searches  Linking to E-Books

Cline Library Catalog Searches

Select the type of catalog search you want from the dropdown menu, type your text in the box, and click Go! to generate copy-and-paste code for search links and boxes. If you leave the search box blank, you will only see code for creating a blank catalog search box.

• Keyword finds items with distinctive words in titles, subjects, or notes, e.g., arizona wildlife (no limits by format).
• Keyword (DVD & VHS) automatically limits the keyword search to DVDs or VHS tapes.
• Keyword (Streaming Video Files) automatically limits the keyword search to online video streaming files from sources like Films On Demand.
• Keyword (Audio CD & Other Sound Formats) limits to audio compact discs, audiotapes, and phonorecords.
• Keyword (Streaming Audio Files) limits to online audio streaming files from such sources as Naxos Music Library and DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music).
• Keyword (E-Books) limits to electronic books.
• Author finds items written by particular individuals or organizations: Vonnegut, Kurt.
• Title finds items according to the exact title: Grapes of Wrath
• Subject finds items according to Library of Congress subject headings: Indians of North America
• Call Number finds items by Library of Congress (LC) call number. Entering the first part of a call number allows the user to browse online for all items belonging to a specific classification range (i.e., subject area): F788 .P89.

See also the library's guides to searching the catalog, finding movies and music, and advanced catalog searching.

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Linking Directly to E-Books

The library's licensed e-book collections NetLibrary, Ebrary, and ABC-Clio provide access to thousands of titles. Records for all of these titles are also in the library catalog. The easiest way to find electronic books and share the links with others is to use the catalog.

1. There are several options for finding e-books in the library catalog:
• From the Find Books page, perform a keyword search in the catalog combining the term electronic books with descriptive or title words and/or author names, e.g., electronic books linguistics.
• From the Advanced catalog search page, select the type of search you want (keyword, author, title, or subject), type in your search term(s), select Material type "E-Books", and press Enter or click Go!.
• Use the catalog search tool on this page above to create a search link or box for finding e-books: choose search type "Keyword (E-Books)", enter your search term(s), and press Enter or click Go! to create a testable link or search box.
2. If more than one title is listed, click the link to see the full record for the desired title. In multi-title catalog screens, e-books are labeled [electronic resource]. If no titles are found try alternate descriptive words or fewer words.
3. Right-click on the link, An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view -- in IE, select "Copy Shortcut" ; in Firefox select "Copy Link Location" (see illustration below).
4. Paste the copied url into your Web editor or other application. Note that the url includes a prefix -- http://libproxy.nau.edu/login?url= -- which ensures that NAU students, faculty or staff using non-NAU network connections can still access the licensed e-book content by logging in with an NAU ID and password.

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This page last modified July 13, 2009