| John Wood Community College Library Catalog |
Our catalog is the first place that you will want to search for books, videos, course reserves, career reference books,
and other reference books. A
list of new books is also available from our catalog. |
| I-SHARE |
If you cannot find what you want in our catalog, search the catalogs of 76 Illinois academic and research libraries all
at once with I-Share Classic or choose any single catalog to search. JWCC students can use the Library Borrower ID
number on the back of their ID card to request books from I-Share. |
| OCLC FirstSearch/WorldCat |
If you can't find a book or video in our Library Catalog or I-Share, you can try to find the item in the WorldCat
database and ask a JWCC Library staff member to help you to request the item. |
| Online eBook Sources |
Description |
| NetLibrary |
NetLibrary is home to John Wood Community College's collection of over 2,000 eBooks (electronic books). Only one person
can read an eBook at a time, so try again later in the rare event that you are unable to access an eBook from NetLibrary. |
| The Online Books Page |
This resource from the University of Pennsylvania lists over 30,000 free electronic books (eBooks) and is updated
regularly. |
| Project Gutenberg |
Tens of thousands of volunteers have joined efforts to create over 27,000 free electronic books (eBooks)
for distribution at Project Gutenberg. |
| Perseus Digital Library |
The flagship collection of the Perseus Digital Library covers literature, history, and culture of the Greco-Roman world;
this is a premier Internet resource for classical literature. Other collections in the Library include Arabic materials,
Germanic materials, 19th Century American history, and Renaissance materials.
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| Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction |
These two massive anthologies comprise a total of 70 volumes that include both classic fiction and nonfiction. |
| Google Book Search |
Google Book Search is a tool that allows you to search the full text of books that Google has scanned and converted
to digital text. PDFs can be downloaded for free for public domain books in the collection, but other books must
be read online with Google's interface. |
| World Wide School |
Visit the World Wide School to find a variety of educational eBooks. |
| Internet Archive: Text Archive |
With well over a million items, the Text Archive is home to a wide variety of free online texts. |
| University of Virginia Library's Etext Center |
The Etext Center offers over 2,100 free eBooks including classic American and British fiction, American history,
Shakespeare, African-American documents, and more. |
| Free-eBooks.net |
You must sign up for a free account before you may download eBooks from any of a wide variety of categories. |
| Book Review Resources |
Description |
| NoveList |
NoveList is a readers' advisory services for fiction readers. |
| New York Times Best Sellers |
Best selling books are organized by category on the New York Times web site, and users can search a database of book
reviews published since 1981. |
| FictionDB |
FictionDB offers links to reviews, lists of fiction books written by thousands of authors, recent publishing history,
lists of awards won, links to online bookstores, and lots of additional information and links related to fiction books. |
| Bookreporter.com |
Offers book reviews, author interviews and biographies, book-related features, details about new movies based on books,
a newsletter, and more. |
| Salon.com: Books |
Salon.com offers book reviews, author interviews, book awards, and more. |
| Midwest Book Review |
The Midwest Book Review releases online versions of several monthly publications that are filled with book reviews, and
reviews are archived on the web site for at least five years. |
There are currently off-campus visitors browsing JWCC.edu.
