Download netLibrary books to your eBook reader

Did you get an eBook reader recently? If so, did you know that you may be able to download selections from the library’s collection of 50,000+ NetLibrary eBooks onto your eReader?


All you have to do is connect to the Louis J. Blume Library’s website and click on Databases Listed Alphabetically. When you do, you will be able to click on NetLibrary. This will take to the NetLibrary website where you will be able to establish a free account with NetLibrary.

NOTE #1: Initially, you need to do this through the library’s website because Netlibrary uses our IP addresses to authenticate that you are connecting from a library that has purchased the collection. You may also do this from off campus by using EZ Proxy, the server that let’s all of our faculty and students log on to and check the library’s databases from off campus.

Procedure:
From the NetLibrary website, go to "Advanced Search."
Key in your search (by author/title/subject/keyword) and,
Before clicking on the search button, select "Downloadable eBooks."

You will be shown a list of downloadable eBooks that matches your search criteria.
When you get a list of books, click on "Show Details"
and then click on "Check Out & Download this eBook."

NOTE #2: Do have your eReader connected to your computer when you do this. The book will be downloaded into your "reader software" on your computer so you can transfer it to your hand-held device.

NOTE #3: NetLibrary checks books out to you and they will be unreadable on your eReader after 7 days. So, don’t download a whole bunch at one time.

NOTE # 4: NetLibrary is a scholarly collection of eBooks, so don’t look for bestsellers or works of fiction. Get those from the Sony store, Amazon, B+N.com, or other eBook vendors.

Since all of the downloadable eBooks are pdf files, they ought to work on a variety of eBook readers.

NOTE #5: Just another service provided by the Louis J. Blume Library.

Happy Techie New Year!

information provided by Dr. H. Palmer Hall, Director, Louis J. Blume Library, St. Mary’s University

Is this the coldest it's ever been?

Well, it surely felt that way to me this weekend. Especially when we had a heater malfunction Saturday night! But I found out that it was even colder, 'way back in 1886, when the record for January 9 was set, at 12°. Our 16° the other night was close, though!

If you want to find out how cold, or how hot, or how much rain (or how little) has fallen on a certain day—or usually falls in a certain month—or has fallen since a certain date—you can find that on the internet.

The National Climatic Data Center has a nifty Records Look-up web page, and if you look at the chart for Lowest Minimum Temperatures for Texas, on January 9, you'll see a lot of red entries: new records were set elsewhere in the state, right and left!

You can also look up records, as well as current temperatures and forecasts, for all over the country, at the National Weather Service. To find all kinds of records for San Antonio, check out this compendium they provide. It might have made me feel a little warmer, psychologically, if I'd realized the other day that once, in 1917, it was 84 degrees here on January 9!

A handy and reliable non-governmental site (with less annoying ads than you find on weather.com) is the Weather Underground's Weather History page. Despite their goofy name (which is a counter-culture reference perhaps known only to People of A Certain Age) there's a lot of data here.

Enjoy browsing for fun weather facts on these websites. And try to keep warm!