II. "QUICKVIEW" AND "UNITY READER"

1) After you enter Ebrary and search for e-books, Ebrary displays e-books in "Quick View."

With "Quick View," you can read e-books without downloading any software.

Here is an e-book in "Quick View."

The "InfoTools" drop down menu in "QuickView" (not shown) can do quite a good job finding related information on the Internet for an item you highlight in the e-book.

2) LAC's Ebrary subsciption also offers another optional e-book reader, "Unity Reader."

If you want to download the "Unity Reader" for audio or for enhanced searching features, press an "ebrary Reader" button on an e-book page, and Ebrary will prompt you to download "Unity Reader" the first time.

It usually takes only 1-2 minutes to download the "Unity Reader." be sure to turn off the pop-up blocker of your Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari. If you have technical issues donloading "Unity Reader," you can email support@ebrary.com with cc: to library@lac.edu.

3) In "Unity Reader," you can hear Ebrary e-books in audio.

In "Unity Reader," you can use "InfoTools" to search inside an e-book, highlight, or add e-books to your bookshelf, from one menu. You would press "InfoTools" to view the "InfoTools" menu.

4) If you search quickly for e-books in "QuickView," you may change to "Unity Reader," by pressing a button for "ebrary Reader."

From e-book results:

From an e-book page:

5) From "Unity Reader," you may return to "QuickView" by pressing the windows or tabs on your computer screen.

You may go back and forth between "QuickView" and "Unity Readwer." It is your choice.

6) You may access your perosnal bookshelf and save e-books in either the "eBrary Reader" setting or the "QuickView" setting. How to Save E-Books in Ebrary

III. TO SEARCH EBRARY FOR E-BOOKS in Simple Search - in Advanced search

Simple Search:

It is not necessary to download software to search and read e-books.

1) Press the "Search" tab in "QuickView" to begin your search for e-books.

Enter search word(s) into the Ebrary search engine. Here is an example.

Note that the dark grey tab is in "Title Results."

2) You can see e-book title results, such as these below.

Review title results. Click a hyperlink title, to open and view an e-book.

Ebrary e-book page example in "QuickView"

3) When you are inside the "Search" tab, you can also search for e-book chapters in multiple e-books having your keyword, after clicking on the "Chapter Results" tab.

"Simple" searches use keywords to find your search words in the text of an e-book.

For more relevant results, use specific keywords in your searching.

Even so, the e-books (or chapters) you find with simple keywords may (or may not) relate well to your topic.

So, you can be more empowered by "advanced" search.

Advanced Search:

To search for e-books in specific title, author, subjects (topic) or international serial book number (ISBN), you must use "advanced" search.

1) Press "advanced" hyperlink.

2) Set the drop down menu.

3) Menu will drop down as shown. Set category on menu. For example, search by subject.

Drop down menu is now set to search by subject.

4) You can set additional drop down menus and enter search terms, as shown below.

Example of search with more than one search word:

Click the "Search ebrary" button (not shown) that is below these search boxes, in order to perform this search.

5) You will obtain one or more e-book title results. Click on an e-book hyperlink title.

Ebrary e-book page example in "QuickView"

IV. TO NAVIGATE OR CONTINUE SEARCHING INSIDE AN E-BOOK in "QuickView" - in "Unity Reader"

To navigate in "QuickView":

1) To navigate to chapters inside an e-book, click a chapter hyperlink on the right side of the e-book page view, and you will be taken to the first page of the chapter.

2) Then, forward and backward arrows above the e-book page move forward or backward one e-book page.

3) In "QuickView," you may continue searching inside an e-book with your original keyword with which you found the e-book. Use either the "Search Document" button or the icon with a "magnafying glass and arrow" shown below.

This might be a relevant way of navigating inside an e-book, though one may lack the perspective and message with which the author wrote the book.

To navigate in "Unity Reader":

These screenshots illustrate how to navigate inside e-books inside "eBrary reader" ("Unity Reader"), which some people prefer.

1) You can use the table of contents and click on any chapter in many e-books, to move to the chapter you select.

2) On an e-book page, you may press the right arrow icon on the toolbar above the e-book page, to move ahead one page, and it is used when you are reading a book or chapter through. Press the left arrow icon, to go back a page to review.

3) You may use the icon with arrow and page with folded corner, if you need to go to a specific page.

4) You may also navigate an e-book by searching for an occurance of any new keyword in the book, which you choose to search.

Press "InfoTools" on the toolbar above the e-book page.

Menu for "Info Tools" will drop down. Press "search document" from drop down menu, and release.

Enter your keyword into the little search box which appears. Example is search by keyword, "corporations."

The search engine finds an e-book page with your keyword highlighted.

5) You may also press the icon with a "magnafying glass and arrow" in the toolbar above the e-book page to find the next passage in the e-book with your keyword.

V. TO SAVE YOUR E-BOOKS

1) Enter Ebrary, and press "bookshelf" tab.

2) If you are using "QuickView," press the "Add to My Bookshelf" button.

(If you are inside the "Unity Reader," use "InfoTools" and press "Add to Bookshelf" in the drop down menu, to save e-book titles with your notes and hightlights in the e-book.)

3) You may access the e-book anytime later from the "Bookshelf" tab in "QuickView."

Note: Students who began courses on or after September 12, 2011 do not need to migrate their bookshelves and can begin in the new system.

Continuing students who began courses at LA College before September 12 may wish to migrate their e-bookshelves to the new Ebrary system. To migrate your bookshelf, press the yellow button for instructions to easily migrate your bookshelf.

The following instructions will appear for migrating your bookshelf. (Follow steps 2-5.)

Email library@lac.edu or support@ebrary.com when you need help.

VI. TO HIGHLIGHT TEXT IN AN E-BOOK ONLINE

Use can use either "ebrary Reader" or "QuickSearch" to highlight text in an e-book.

1) Once you have found information on an e-book page you want to save, you can highlight it and save it into your personal bookshelf.

To highlight, press the left button of your mouse and move & drag your mouse to highlight the text.

Then, press the arrow next to the icon of the marking pen.

2) A menu with marker icons will drop down. Press the color marker you desire from the drop down menu.

3) Highlighted text will be marked in chosen color.

4) Your highlighted text is automatically be saved into your personal bookshelf, to which you can later return.
(To return to your bookshelf, press the "Bookshelf" tab in Ebrary.)

VII. TO MAKE NOTES ON AN E-BOOK

You can make and save notes of your research in Ebrary in either "QuickView" or "ebrary Reader" ("Unity Reader.")

1) Inside an e-book page in which you want to make notes, press the arrow next to the marker icon, as shown.

Choose the icon on the drop down menu with picture of marker and note page, as shown below.

2) A box to enter notes appears. Enter note, as is already shown in this screen shot. Press "OK" button to save note.

3) You can press the "Notes" button, after which, you will see any notes and highlighted text made, as shown.

Your notes (and any highlighted text) will also be saved into your personal bookshelf, to which you can return later. To return to your personal bookshelf, press the "Bookshelf" tab in Ebrary.

4) In "QuickView," you may also make notes by using "IntoTools" and pressing the "Create Note" button.

VIII. TO ENLARGE E-BOOK PAGE

You can enlarge e-book pages in either "eBrary Reader" (Unity Reader") or in the "QuickView."

1) Once you have found an e-book page, you may want to enlarge the e-book page to make it easier to read. Press the icon with the "+ or -" icon on the toolbar above the "QuickView" e-book page.

2) A drop down menu will appear. Press the enlargement offered, 100%, 150% or 200%. The type will be enlarged.

IX. TO PRINT PAGES FROM EBRARY in "QuickView" - in "Unity Reader"

In "QuickView"

Press "Infotools" to open "InfoTools" menu, to print.

Press "Print" on Menu

Pop-up window will appear. Adjust, and press "Print" button.

According to legal copyright, Ebrary will allow sixty (60) pages to be printed.

In "Unity Reader"

Press icon for printing on toolbar above e-book page.

A window will pop up for printing.

X. CITATIONS

Online students can use the LAC Style Guide in My Tool Kit in Moodle, for guidance to create citations for e-books used in Ebrary for research projects.

Online students are encouraged to consult the tutorial on short notes and citations, "Citations and References Format in Microsoft Word" in My Toolkit in Moodle. Students say it can save a lot of time making citations!

In InfoTools, Ebrary has connections to several commercially available citation generator services, which require paid subscriptions.

Ebrary (E-Book Library) - PowerPoint Guide with Illustrations

If you have any questions, call LAC Library at (800) 574-6428, ext. 1718, M-Th
or email library@lac.edu.

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