Each item in the library catalog has a record that gives you additional information about that item. When you do a search, you get a list of results like those in a search for works of criticism on Shakespeare, below:

Clicking on each title in the list links you to the individual record for each item. See the following for the record of the first title from the previous search:

Each item in the library's collection is identified by a unique call number. Books and audiovisual materials use the Dewey Decimal call number system. Government documents in CD or microfiche formatser use the Sudoc number system. North Carolina public school textbooks use a book numbering system unique to textbooks used in North Carolina's public schools.

For more information on these systems, see the following links:

The library catalog also includes records for approximately 22,700 electronic books that are available online.

When you click on the link in the catalog record, you are taken to the site of netLibrary, the vendor who provides the e-books. On the left side of the netLibrary eBook Details screen, you'll see a copy of the cover of the book, and to the right of the cover a "View this e-Book" link :

• To get to various chapters, the index, and other sections of the e-book, click on the appropriate links on the Contents tab in the left-hand frame:


These will take you directly to those pages, which will display in the right-hand frame, one page at a time as shown below:



To navigate within the e-book one page at a time forward or backward, use the "Previous" and "Next" icons across the top of the right-hand frame of the screen, or type in a specific page number in the Page window to go directly to that page:



To search the full text of the entire e-book for a word or phrase, go to the "Search this eContent" window at the bottom of the left-hand frame:



Then

• In the "Search this eBook" window, type in your word or phrase, and then click "Search":


Very Important: If you search for a phrase (more than one word), make sure to enclose the phrase within quote marks! Otherwise, the computer will look for one word or another, but not the phrase as a whole. (For instance, in the example above, it would look for "body" or "language" but not necessarily the phrase "body language," if not enclosed in quotes.)

In the left-hand frame on the Search tab, each occurrence of the phrase is indicated (with the page number of the book that contains the occurrence in parentheses). Click on the "View this Page" link (highlighted in blue below) next to each occurrence you want to view. The page you have selected to view then appears in the right-hand text frame (not shown below). To see other occurrences, click on the "View this Page" link beside the occurrence you want to view:

You can print from an e-book as long as you can see it displayed on the screen. That means, however, that you can print only one page at a time since you can only view one page at a time.

• If you're printing from an e-book that's in PDF format (like our example above, which uses Adobe Acrobat software to view it), to print you must use the printer icon that's within the Adobe toolbar (the second icon on the top row illustrated below):


(If you cannot see the Adobe tool bar, click on the "Show Acrobat Tools" button, as illustrated below):



DO NOT USE the printer icon on the browser's toolbar or the browser's "File, Print" drop-down menu when printing PDF format e-books. (Otherwise, you may get a blank page.):

• When you've either viewed an e-book, remember to close it when you're finished by clicking on the "Close Item" link, highlighted below in blue:


When you do this, you will see the following box telling you that you have closed the eBook:

If you don't close your eBook, you'll keep anyone else from accessing it until either a period of inactivity makes it available for another user.