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Welcome to Federated Search & Discover; a discovery tool which grants your library access to a mega-aggregate index of scholarly materials hosted by the World eBook Library and World Heritage Encyclopedia in a cloud computing environment....

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Researchers, students and the public have become unsatisfied with the overall user-experience of library search engines as well as the availability and accessibility of library materials. There are thousands of resources to discover and it’s hard to know where to start. The daunting task of beginning a research project often leads researchers to simple and popular web search engines instead. The open web yields easier results but the content found is less authoritative and credible. The library loses users while researchers are left to settle for unsatisfactory resources. This has become a real problem for libraries and researchers around the world. Until now....

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This is a step by step presentation on how to download eBooks to your Android Device.

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Hi, I’m Mia with the World eBook Library. Today we are going to learn how to download eBooks, from the World eBook Library, for viewing on your Android tablet or Android mobile device. To get started, you will need Your Android tablet or Android mobile device An internet connection or data service And an eLibrary card for the World eBook Library Let’s begin:...

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This is a step-by-step presentation on how to download eBooks to your Kindle eBook reader. This tutorial covers the Kindle Fire HD device.

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Today we are going to learn how students, teachers and librarians can download eBooks, from the School eBook Library, for viewing on Kindle Fire HD or Fire HDX devices. To get started, you will need: An Amazon Kindle Fire HD or HDX device An internet connection or data service And an eLibrary card for the School eBook Library Let’s begin: If your school gave you a direct link to the library, please skip this part of the tutorial, otherwise open a browser and type schoollibrary.org into your search bar. Now, open the menu and select Sign In. From here you can enter an offsite access code provided to you by your school or enter your username and password and tap “Sign In” After you log in, the homepage of the School eBook Library will load. Your homepage may look different than this one but everything in our tutorial will work the same way. Before we talk about downloading books, let’s investigate some of the exciting discovery tools for students, on the homepage. First, our eBook Finder. This is a great tool for finding interesting resources quickly. Simply type in a search term and tap search. We also have ...

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This is a step-by-step presentation on how to download eBooks to your Android device.

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Today we are going to learn how library patrons can access books, articles and other resources, from the World eBook Library, for viewing on an Android tablet or Android mobile device. To get started, you will need Your Android tablet or Android mobile device An internet connection or data service And an eLibrary card for the World eBook Library Let’s begin: If your institution gave you a direct link to the library, skip this part of the tutorial, otherwise go to the library by typing ebooklibrary.org into your browser. Now, open the menu and select Sign In. From here you can enter an offsite access code provided to you by your institution or enter your username and password and tap “Sign In” After you log in, the homepage of the World eBook Library will load. Your homepage may look different than this one but all of the information in our tutorial still applies. Before we talk about downloading books, let’s investigate some of the discovery tools available to patrons on the homepage. First, our eBook Finder. This is a great tool for finding interesting resources quickly. Simply type in a search term and tap ...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collectoin; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights....

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The library. An academic institution’s most vital resource. Now, The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection is enabling your library to be even more vital. Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. Five of the top universities in the world have made available more than 700 years of engineering eBooks for a total of 73,120 works. The Millenium Collection has a total of 146,620 engineering eBooks. More than twice that of these 5 top ranked universities combined. ...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collectoin; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights. ...

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Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity. World War I and II. Man’s journey to the moon and beyond As well as the Internet. The Millenium Collection has gathered the millions of primary written sources directly documenting or inspired by events such as these; and made them available through a single eBook portal. ...

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The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. The Millenium Collection; built to help you and your library reach even greater heights. - See more at: http://worldlibrary.net/details.aspx?bookid=3437268#sthash.FlNjYVi1.dpuf...

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Hello. My name is Mia. I’m here today to introduce you to the World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection and tell you exactly how the Millenium Collection can benefit your institution. The World eBook Library’s Millenium Collection consists of more than 3 million primary source materials spanning the past 1,000 years of world history. As you know, much has happened in the last 1000 years. Events such as: The Evolution of English linguistics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The discovery, by Europeans, of the American continents. The European Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press. Karl Benz inventing the automobile. Einstein’s theory of relativity. World War I and II. Man’s journey to the moon and beyond As well as the Internet. The Millenium Collection has gathered the millions of primary written sources directly documenting or inspired by events such as these; and made them available through a single eBook portal. - See more at: http://worldlibrary.net/details.aspx?bookid=3437268#sthash.FlNjYVi1.dpuf...

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The Read it LOUD Foundation is promoting literacy for all. We are focusing on young kids, by encouraging families to read together, and also on K-12 students by working with School eBook Library to provide eLibrary cards for EVERY K-12 student in the state, giving them access to millions of classic literature, audio books, journals, historical documents, and graphic novels, all at the touch of a button, with downloading and printing capabilities. All at no charge to the school or student, through grants. This campaign will launch January of 2014 and we are looking for community support. We will be working with every school in the state, from K-12, DOE schools, private schools, Catholic Schools and charter schools. Over 300 schools total, from Waianae to Waimanalo....

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The World Public Library Association is the world’s largest aggregator of eBooks. Founded in 1996, the World Public Library Association is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works in a number of languages and countries around the world. World Public Library is a IRC 501(c)(4) Organization, organized Not for profit, but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. Our mission is to serve and aid the public, students, and educators, by providing the world's most complete collection of electronic books, documents, and articles online, as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post-baccalaureate studies. Access to the complete holdings of the World Public Library is open to the general public for personal use, members receive an eLibrary Card allowing them unlimited accessto our complete holdings....

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Franklin D. Roosevelt - “The public library is a nation’s act of believing in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgement in creating their own future.” The traditional library is changing, fast. Paper books,and the multi-level structures that house them, are becoming a thing of the past while digital books, eBooks, pave the way for a new future of instant, worldwide accessibility to knowledge. The World Public Library is at the forefront of this movement. I. History A. Purpose of the Library 1. Origins Hi, I’m Mia with the World Public Library and I would like to invite you on a journey through the library’s past present and future. Along the way we will explore what has made the library such a unique and important place historically and what the World Public Library is doing today to make the library more useful and vital than ever before. It’s impossible to think about the progress mankind has made without calculating the role that the library has played. Any city that has had a great impact on learning has had a great library behind it, fu...