OverDrive eBooks

Popular fiction and nonfiction downloadable to a computer or PDA.

• Select “Login” to begin using OverDrive eBooks
• Select “Anne Arundel County Public Library” from the drop-down menu and enter your library card number.
• Checkout period for OverDrive eBooks is 2 weeks.
• A combination of 4 Overdrive ebooks, Overdrive audiobooks and downloadable video total that can be checked out at a time from Overdrive.
• Materials can be returned early.
• Holds can be placed on materials already checked out.
• No fines.
• These items are not to be downloaded on the computers in the library.
  

Safari Tech Books

Computer and Information Technology (IT) eBooks from publishers such as: O’Reilly; Adobe, Prentice Hall, Que, SAMS and others. Subjects such as certification, e-business, Linus/Unix, Perl, programming, web design, XML.

• For online reference use only – not for checkout or downloading.
• Access in the library branches or remotely. For remote access use this link.
• Print or copy & paste pages or portions of text into documents.
• Search function searches across all titles.
• Code segments can be cut & pasted to avoid copying errors.
• Use quotes for exact phrase searching.
• View tables of contents and the indexes

Gale Virtual Reference Library

eBook versions of reference books in Business, History, Law, Science, etc.

• For online reference use only
• Access in the library branches or remotely. For remote access, enter your library card number at the prompt.
• Print, copy and paste pages or portions of text
• Search the books individually or across all titles
• Navigate via table of contents or index.

NetLibrary eBooks Include:

• Cliff’s Notes, science experiments, animals and other topics for students K-12.
• For on-line reference use only.
• Access in the library branches or remotely.
• Register for a NetLibrary account in a library branch using this link to be able to access NetLibrary materials remotely.
• Register for a NetLibrary account from home using this link to be able to access NetLibrary materials remotely.
• Use this link for NetLibrary remote access.

 

 

October 2006