Pathway Te Huarahi: Books

Use Library catalogue option to filter your results to 'whole publications', rather than articles or chapters or reviews inside them. This is really helpful when looking for books in the collection.

Most of the University of Otago Library collections use the Library of Congress classification system (LC).

Under this system, the collection is organised by broad subject areas and these subject areas are represented by a letter :

For example:

• B = Philosophy, Psychology, Religion (Central Library)
• D to F = History (Central Library)
• G = Geography, Anthropology, Recreation (Central Library)
• H = Social Sciences (Central Library)
• L = Education (Robertson Library)
• N = Fine Arts (Central Library)
• K= Law (Law Library)
• P = Literature (Central Library)
• Q = Science (Science Library)
• W  = Medicine (Health Science Library)
• T = Technology (Science Library)
• There are also lots of subdivisions within classes (e.g. HF = Commerce, LA = History of Education and ND = Painting).
• Go to a list of all the Library of Congress subject areas

The call number (or shelf address label) on Library items will start with 1 or 2 letters that represent the main subjects and the part of the Library collection they are in (e.g. HF Commerce). The call numbers in this pic start with L so the books must be about Education and be shelved in the Education collection.

The Library has a large collection of eBooks and they look like this in Library Search Ketu results:

• Click on the book title to open the eBook
• Click on view details to get more information about the eBook

Using Library eBooks

• Most Library e-books can be downloaded as a pdf to your computer or device (the whole thing or individual chapters). 
• eBooks provided by ProQuest eBook Central can be downloaded as a pdf but only for a limited period of time (e.g. 3-10 days) and you need to install freely available software first.

Software requirements for ProQuest eBooks Central:

If you want to be able to downloaded the entire eBook to your computer/device (for a specified period of time) you need to download the following free software first: 

• Books provided by ProQuest eBooks Central can be read online without the need for installing any software.
• To download a ProQuest eBook to a PC or laptop you require Adobe Digital Editions (free to download).
• To download to a ProQuest eBook to e-reader, iPad, tablet or other mobile device you require Adobe Blue Fire Reader (free to download).
• Downloading, saving or printing chapters from a ProQuest eBook requires no additional software, but we recommend that you don't use the Firefox browser when printing pages - IE, Google Chrome or Safari work fine though.

ProQuest eBooks Central and DRM (Digital Rights Management) 
This software determines how much of an eBook you can save, print or copy in a 24 hour period. 

eBooks will show up in your Library Search Ketu search results but you can also search a variety of e-book databases, some of them a listed below: