city college norwich work based learners library introduction

Work based learners

eBooksThere are several ways to access our eBook collection of 3,000+ eBooks. Choose which suits you best.

Browse all eBooks via the Information Store catalogue:

1. Go to heritage.ccn.ac.uk

2. Choose “Advanced search”

3. Change “Medium type” to

“E-Book”, and enter your search

4. Click on the title and then the URL

of the eBook you want to read*

NB these eBooks currently work best on PCs.

Or browse eBooks by individual provider*:

http://lib.myilibrary.comhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/ccnorwich/home

*Logging in: you will need an Athens username and password to access eBooks off-campus.

Access all the resources you need to complete your course, from work or home, without the need to travel to college.

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Please email tis@ccn.ac.uk if you haven’t already been given a Athens username and password.

eJournalsAccess to thousands of online journal articles via the Athens website

www.openathens.net

Step 1

Select “Login to MyAthens”(email tis@ccn.ac.uk for your username and password)

Step 2

Making sure that you are on the Resources page (see arrow above), click on the title of a database (in the middle section) that interests you. We recommend Infotrac as an easy to use database, which covers all subject areas.

Select Infotrac > General OneFile > enter one keyword per box.

Please call us if you would like us to talk you through this.

Borrowing Books

To browse the Information Store catalogue, go to

http://heritage.ccn.ac.uk If you would like to borrow resources, please contact your assessor to see if they can be delivered to your workplace. We appreciate that being a distance learner has its challenges, so we will issue items to you for longer than we would for our campus-based learners.

Book Suggestions

We are always interested to hear your suggestions about books for your course. Please email tis@ccn.ac.uk and we will look into it.

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If you would like to visit CCN for a 1:1 session with a librarian, or have a question for us, just get in touch:

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