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Mobile Tools

The library provides many services and resources that are now mobile compliant. For a list of these and to find out how you can use them - let this guide lead the way!

Catalog Search

Use the search box below to find books in the library catalog. 

WorldCat Mobile

WorldCat Logoworks with all smartphonesWorldCat Mobile lets you search the world's catalog of more than almost 150 million items in libraries worldwide from your phone.

Use WorldCat to locate books, entire journals, dissertations and theses, videos, audio recordings, manuscript materials, and other publication types. Items identified in WorldCat may often be borrowed from owning libraries using the Interlibrary Loan service.

WorldCat mobile is not an app; use your device's browser and bookmark the catalog page at http://www.worldcatmobile.org/.

Google Book Search

Google Logo

works with most smart phonesGoogle BookSearch  offers more than 1.5 million public domain books that can be read with most phones.

Just point your browser to http://books.google.com and the screen will adjust to your device. 

Business Expert Press

Business Expert Pressworks on most smart phones

Business Expert Press' Digital Libraries are filled with practical, concise course readings and reference materials that track the business / management curriculum. They're written by international authorities with teaching experience, and aren’t just for the classroom: they’ll also be of value to professional users who’d like prescriptive resources which address the challenges they face each day in the business world. 

To download, follow these directions. They're PDF's and can be read on any device with a PDF reader. 

 

Safari Books Online Mobile

 Safari Books Onlineworks on most smart phones

Safari Books Online mobile allows you to search and read more than 20,000 books about technology, software, apps, and programming. 

Safari Books Online mobile is not an app; use your device's browser and bookmark the catalog page at at http://0-m.proquest.safaribooksonline.com.olinkserver.franklin.edu.

 

Digital Public Library of America

Digital Public Library of America Logo works on most smart phones

 

From the FAQ, "The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used."

This is not an app; simply use the link dp.la within your device's browser.

HathiTrust Mobile

Hathitrust Logo works on most smart phonesHathitrust mobile at http://m.hathitrust.org/ allows you to search and read more than 2.5 million open access books online. 

HathiTrust is a digitization project created by a consortium of research libraries. This is not an app; simply use the link within your browser.

 

 

Amazon

Amazonapp for iPhoneapp for AndroidAmazon - for books, movies, and more. Available for Android or iOS.

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