NetLibrary Electronic Books
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NetLibrary is a resource of over 50,000 electronic books accessible 24/7.  Access is restricted to current LCU students, faculty and staff.  The collection is a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books, primarily published after 2002.

The ebooks are listed in the LCU online catalog identified as an [electronic resource] with a link for the book into NetLibrary.  Ebooks are full-text and fully searchable.  Within Netlibrary, you may search by author, title or subject as well as a distinctive keyword in the full text.  Search for a phrase in "quotation marks."  To limit by date or sort results, switch to Power Search.  You can search and view books by selecting View eBook.  A tutorial is available at www.oclc.org/netlibrary/demo

You need to create your personal account in NetLibrary to download a book. 
On campus: Go to http://www.netlibrary.com/ Click on the "Create Account" button, fill in the information requested and choose your personal log-in name and password. 

(Note: Initially creating your netLibrary account is easily done from a computer on-campus.  After the account is active, you may log-in NetLibrary from any computer off campus with Internet access.)

Off campus:  To create an account off campus, follow these instructions step by step for NetLbrary to recognize you as a LCU user.

1. Go to the LCU Library Find Articles page.
2. Click on the off campus link to activate the proxy screen. *
3. Enter your LCUnet username and password and submit it.
4. The list of databases should open.
5. Scroll down to NetLibrary (listed in Electronic books) to link to NetLibrary.com
6. On the NetLibrary page, click on Create Account and follow the directions.  (Choose your personal username & password to log-in to NetLibrary)
7. You can access NetLibrary directly at www.netlibrary.com/Login.aspx after you have created a netLibrary account with username and password.

You may print a page at a time, or copy/paste small selections of an ebook (about 10 pages).  Copyright law prohibits printing out an entire ebook.

If you want to read the ebook offline, or while not connected to the Internet, you will need to download an ebook reader or have appropriate software/hardware for access.

*Technical difficulties? Contact ISHelpDesk@lcu.edu or 806-720-7100
You may need to configure your computer or download software to access the databases through the proxy server or access ebooks in the NetLibrary site.