Readers’ Services: Downloadable Titles
The library offers access to several downloadable book services:
North Carolina Digital Library
We’ve added printable versions of many of our most popular handouts to the North Carolina Digital Library page.
NC Live Services
*NEW* OpenLibrary
A collection of over 200,000 and growing downloadable eBooks that can be transferred to a variety of eReaders. The titles include fiction, nonfiction, young adult, and children’s titles published between 1923 and 1999.
*NEW * RecordedBooks OneClick Digital Media (NCLive)
This collection of audiobooks can be downloaded to a variety of MP3
players and other devices. It includes a collection of over 1200
fiction, nonfiction, young adult and children’s titles. Attend an
upcoming free webinar to learn how to use this new service. Go to www.recordedbooks.com/webinar for dates and times.
*Updated Service* eBooks on EBSCOhost (NCLive)
Nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online. The EBSCOhost eBook collection includes a wide variety of titles that can be read on the computer and will soon be able to transfer to a device. Click on the ‘Learn More’ section at the bottom of the main page. Visit the eBooks on EBSCOhost Support Center at: http://support.ebsco.com/ebooks/ebook_faqs.php for detailed information, quick guides and video tutorials.
Learning Express Library (NCLive)
LearningExpress Library's eBooks collection provides career guides, study aides, and test-preparation books to help people prepare for high-stakes tests; to pass licensing, certification, or competitive entry-level exams; or to advance in school or professionally.
Gale Virtual Reference (NCLive) Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
ABC-CLIO Collection (NCLive) Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors and Literature in Context series, which helps you understand the time period of our most classic works.