Showing posts with label January. Show all posts
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On Holiday? Relax with a good eBook
Your library has titles you can download or read online, wherever you are, this holiday season!
eBooks and eAudio are indicated in your library catalogue search results by these two icons:
The icons with the 'e' as part of the caption indicate the titles which are Electronic Resources, and as such, they can be used from anywhere you have an internet connection! No need to physically visit the library to use them.
The library holds two types of eBook and two types of eAudio book.
eBooks in the Gale Virtual Reference Library and CSIRO Publishing titles can be used directly from your search result list, each record has a link to it's online location.
Or search the catalogue for either of these collections and follow the link to the entire title list and search within them.
These eBooks can look like this
OR this.
All titles GVRL and CSIRO titles are available to anyone at anytime. There are no loan periods or waitlists.
eBooks from Overdrive do not open directly from the search results. First time users must look at the instructions supplied from the library's Overdrive Audiobooks and eBooks Learn More link, to ensure setup is smooth.
Overdrive has a great range of Fiction and Non-fiction titles, which can be found via Encore or in Overdrive itself.
Overdrive allows you to borrow titles for a 3 week period, (shorter if you wish), renew them and place a hold on them, if they are out on loan. One can have a maximum of 10 titles out at a time, whether that is a mix of eBook or eAudio.
TIP: Overdrive titles do not appear on your regular library online account, a separate Overdrive account is created for each member and loans, returns and holds etc. are managed from there.
eAudio is also available from Overdrive, with the titles coming from over 2,000 publishers, (including HarperCollins, Random House & MacMillan) and new ones being added all the time, there is something for everyone.
eAudio is the only format available from OneClickDigital, so if you want something...anything... to listen to whilst on those long holiday drives, (or on your morning runs) browse through the range offered by OneClickDigital. First time around one needs to create a new account, which enables the creation of preferences, alerts and collection lists. A preview is provided so the reader's voice can be assessed before downloading!
Overdrive and OneClickDigital do require software to be downloaded to your PC or portable device on the first use. All the information required to access these convenient titles is contained on the library website under the menu option Online Resources.
You may recognise it by either of these screenshots;
Encore Home Page
Encore search box on the Library Home Page
If your search does not immediately show eBooks or eAudio books then use the tools above to limit your results to the material type you require.
Please ask staff, if you have any questions about these great resources
eBooks and eAudio are indicated in your library catalogue search results by these two icons:
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| eBook 2013 |
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| eAudio 2013 |
The library holds two types of eBook and two types of eAudio book.
eBooks in the Gale Virtual Reference Library and CSIRO Publishing titles can be used directly from your search result list, each record has a link to it's online location.
Or search the catalogue for either of these collections and follow the link to the entire title list and search within them.
These eBooks can look like this
OR this.
All titles GVRL and CSIRO titles are available to anyone at anytime. There are no loan periods or waitlists.
eBooks from Overdrive do not open directly from the search results. First time users must look at the instructions supplied from the library's Overdrive Audiobooks and eBooks Learn More link, to ensure setup is smooth.
Overdrive has a great range of Fiction and Non-fiction titles, which can be found via Encore or in Overdrive itself.
Overdrive allows you to borrow titles for a 3 week period, (shorter if you wish), renew them and place a hold on them, if they are out on loan. One can have a maximum of 10 titles out at a time, whether that is a mix of eBook or eAudio.
TIP: Overdrive titles do not appear on your regular library online account, a separate Overdrive account is created for each member and loans, returns and holds etc. are managed from there.
eAudio is also available from Overdrive, with the titles coming from over 2,000 publishers, (including HarperCollins, Random House & MacMillan) and new ones being added all the time, there is something for everyone.
eAudio is the only format available from OneClickDigital, so if you want something...anything... to listen to whilst on those long holiday drives, (or on your morning runs) browse through the range offered by OneClickDigital. First time around one needs to create a new account, which enables the creation of preferences, alerts and collection lists. A preview is provided so the reader's voice can be assessed before downloading!
Overdrive and OneClickDigital do require software to be downloaded to your PC or portable device on the first use. All the information required to access these convenient titles is contained on the library website under the menu option Online Resources.
Find eBooks or eAudio regardless of who supplies them!
eBooks and eAudio titles cover a wide range of subjects and fiction genres. All the eBook and eAudio titles are included, in the results of any search one conducts in the library's main discovery tool, Encore.You may recognise it by either of these screenshots;
Encore Home Page
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Encore search box on the Library Home Page
If your search does not immediately show eBooks or eAudio books then use the tools above to limit your results to the material type you require.
Please ask staff, if you have any questions about these great resources
Keep Reading: Creepy tales from 1001 books collection
From a selection of creepy tales, this is a classic example of a psychological story by a master.
Read these opening paragraphs to see if you would like to keep reading this book...
TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it --oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly --very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously --cautiously (for the hinges creaked) --I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.
To keep reading this story request it from the library now!
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Keep reading - Chicklit
Delightful and engaging, here is a chicklit novel, set in Sydney in the late1950's, by an Australian author.
Read the opening paragraphs to see if you would like to keep reading this book!
At the end of a hot November day Miss Baines and Mrs Williams of the ladies frock department at Goode's were complaining to each other while they changed out of their black frocks before going home.
'Mr Ryder's not so bad, ' said Miss Baines, in reference to the floor manager; 'its that Miss Cartwright who's a pain in the neck, excuse my French'.
Miss Cratwright was the buyer, and she never seemed to give them a moment's peace.
Mrs Williams shrugged and began to powder her nose.
'She always gets worse this time of year,' she pointed out.
'She wants to make sure we earn our Christmas bonus.'
'As if we could help it!' said Miss Baines. 'We're run off our feet!'
Which was quite true: the great festival being now only six weeks away, the crowds of customers were beginning to surge and the frocks to vanish from the rails in an ever-faster flurry, and when Mrs Williams was washing out her undies in the handbasin that night she had a sudden sensation that her life was slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole; but she pulled herself together and went on with her chores, while the antipodean summer night throbbed outside all around her.
Mrs Williams, Patty, and Miss Baines, Fay, worked together with Miss Jacobs on Ladies' Cocktail Frocks, which was next to Ladies Evening Frocks, down at the end of the second floor of Goode's department store in the centre of Sydney. F.G Goode, a sharp Mancunian, had opened his original Emporium )Ladies and Gents' Apparel - All the Latest London Modes) at the end of the last century, and had never looked back, because the people of the colony, he saw straight away, would spend pretty well all they had in order to convince themselves that they were in fashion.
To Keep on reading this book request it from the Library now!
Read the opening paragraphs to see if you would like to keep reading this book!
At the end of a hot November day Miss Baines and Mrs Williams of the ladies frock department at Goode's were complaining to each other while they changed out of their black frocks before going home.
'Mr Ryder's not so bad, ' said Miss Baines, in reference to the floor manager; 'its that Miss Cartwright who's a pain in the neck, excuse my French'.
Miss Cratwright was the buyer, and she never seemed to give them a moment's peace.
Mrs Williams shrugged and began to powder her nose.
'She always gets worse this time of year,' she pointed out.
'She wants to make sure we earn our Christmas bonus.'
'As if we could help it!' said Miss Baines. 'We're run off our feet!'
Which was quite true: the great festival being now only six weeks away, the crowds of customers were beginning to surge and the frocks to vanish from the rails in an ever-faster flurry, and when Mrs Williams was washing out her undies in the handbasin that night she had a sudden sensation that her life was slipping away with the rinsing water as it gurgled down the plughole; but she pulled herself together and went on with her chores, while the antipodean summer night throbbed outside all around her.
Mrs Williams, Patty, and Miss Baines, Fay, worked together with Miss Jacobs on Ladies' Cocktail Frocks, which was next to Ladies Evening Frocks, down at the end of the second floor of Goode's department store in the centre of Sydney. F.G Goode, a sharp Mancunian, had opened his original Emporium )Ladies and Gents' Apparel - All the Latest London Modes) at the end of the last century, and had never looked back, because the people of the colony, he saw straight away, would spend pretty well all they had in order to convince themselves that they were in fashion.
To Keep on reading this book request it from the Library now!
2013
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Chicklit
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January
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Keep reading
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