Safari
Books Online for Libraries contains a subset of 7,947 technology,
digital media, and business books from Safari’s overall content. These titles
are browsable, but cannot be downloaded for offline viewing. With
5,165 OPL sessions in 2014, it is a well-used subscription.
Challenge 1: What is the oldest publication date featured in OPL’s Safari Books library? What is the title of the book?
Gale
Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a small collection of multi volume reference
sets and directories. The collection is not currently being grown, rather we
are weeding titles as they date, but it still sees a fair amount of use (1,050
sessions in 2014). Highlights from this collection are the College Blue Book
and Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Content can also be downloaded to a
device and kept.
Challenge 2: According to the
College Blue Book, Laney College offers 5 intercollegiate sports. What are
they?
EBSCOhost
eBooks are legacy titles rolled over from our former NetLibrary Consortium
subscription. At 1,652 sessions in 2014, they are still doing a brisk enough
business that we prefer not to let them go. However, you will find nothing more
recent than 2005 on there. There are 8,140 titles, most of which are
adult non-fiction, with 1,901 adult fiction and only a couple of hundred
Juvenile or Young Adult titles, and 52 Spanish-language titles. You’ll need to create an account using your
library card number and PIN, and you can read online or download to your device
if you install free software. One thing that is pretty cool is that you can
search the full text of the eBooks on there and use Boolean operators.
Challenge 3: Look up the title Gardening with native wild flowers in Encore. Follow the link to EBSCOhost. What is Chapter
11 called?