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New Books and Media Received (June-September 2016)

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The following Books and DVDs (119 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during June, July, August and September 2016

Seminary Library

Bible
Tov, Emanuel. Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, Septuagint : Collected Essays. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Print.

Christian Denominations
Abilene Christian College. The Restoration Principle. Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian College Students Exchange, 1962. Print.

Baker, Matthew, and Mark Mourachian. What Is the Bible? : The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016. Print.

Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry. Holy Women of Byzantium : Ten Saints’ Lives in English Translation. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996. Print.

Family, Marriage, Woman, and Sexuality
Massey, Lesly F. Daughters of God, Subordinates of Men : Women and the Roots of Patriarchy in the New Testament. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015. Print.

New Testament
Adams, Sean A. The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print.

Dinkler, Michal Beth. Silent Statements : Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. Print.

Falluomini, Carla. The Gothic Version of the Gospels and Pauline Epistles : Cultural Background, Transmission and Character. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. Print.

Flemming, Dean E. Philippians : A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition. Kansas City, Mo.: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2009. Print.

Guthrie, George H. 2 Corinthians. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2015. Print.

Stuckenbruck, Loren T., and Chris. Keith. Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. Print.

Old Testament
Barstad, Hans M., and Rannfrid I. Thelle. New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History : Essays in Honour of Hans M. Barstad. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Print.

Becking, Bob. Reflections on the Silence of God : A Discussion with Marjo Korpel and Johannes De Moor. Leiden: BRILL, 2013. Print.

Gerbrandt, Gerald Eddie. Deuteronomy. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Herald Press, 2015. Print.

Kiraz, George Anton, et al. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Daniel /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. Print.

Kiraz, George Anton, et al. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Ezekiel /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015.

Kiraz, George Anton, et al. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Joshua /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. Print.

Kiraz, George Anton, et al. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Judges /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. Print.

Kiraz, George Anton, Joseph Bali, and Edward M. Cook. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Numbers /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. Print.

Kiraz, George Anton, et al. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation. Samuel /. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015. Print.

Leene, Henk. Newness in Old Testament Prophecy : An Intertextual Study. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Print.

Lugt, Pieter van der. Cantos and Strophes in Biblical Hebrew Poetry III : Psalms 90-150 and Psalm 1. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Print.

Snyman, Fanie. Malachi. Leuven: Peeters, 2015. Print.

Practical Theology
Daniel, Eleanor Ann. Call Me Teacher. Maitland, FL: Xuloess, 2016. Print.

Gossip, Arthur John. In Christ’s Stead. Vancouver, British Columbia: Regent College Publishing, 2016. Print.

Farley, Wendy. The Thirst of God : Contemplating God’s Love with Three Women Mystics. First edition. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015. Print.

Zumwalt, Jamie West, and Floyd. McClung. Simple Obsession : Enjoying the Tender Heart of God. 2nd edition. Choctaw, OK: HGM Publishing, 2010. Print.

Religion
Blowers, Paul M. Maximus the Confessor : Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Print.

Busine, Aude. Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th-7th Cent.). Leiden: Brill, 2015. Print. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 182; Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 182.

Feldman, Louis H., James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman. Outside the Bible : Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2013. Print.

Khan, Md. Irshad Anwar. Christ Jesus in the Gospels and the Quran. 2nd ed. Telira, Dt. Hooghly: Huma Khurshid, 2008. Print.

Wuaku, Albert Kafui. Hindu Gods in West Africa : Ghanaian Devotees of Shiva and Krishna. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Print.

Welshimer Library

Bible
Jones, Steve. Serpent’s Promise : The Bible Interpreted through Modern Science. New York: Pegasus Books, 2015. Print.

Doctrinal Theology
Calhoun, Jimi, and Paul Louis Metzger. The Art of God : Reflections on Music, Diversity, and the Beauty in You. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2015. Print.

Cortez, Marc. Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective : Ancient and Contemporary Approaches to Theological Anthropology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2016. Print.

Education
Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook. Eighth edition. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2016. Print.

Straker, Kathleen C., and Eugenia G. Kelman. Six Steps to College Success : Learning Strategies for STEM Students. Houston, Texas: Karista Press, 2015. Print.

Fine Arts
Bierut, Michael. How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (every Once in a While) Change the World. New York, NY: Harper Design, 2015. Print.

Cheng, Kevin. See What I Mean : How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Roeld Media, 2012. Print.

Draplin, Aaron James. Draplin Design Co. : Pretty Much Everything. New York, NY: Abrams, 2016. Print.

Gompertz, Will. What Are You Looking at? : The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art. 1st Plume printing 2013. New York: Plume, Published by the Penguin Group, 2013. Print.

Rasula, Jed. Destruction Was My Beatrice : Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015. Print.

History
Bunker, Nick. An Empire on the Edge : How Britain Came to Fight America. First Vintage Books edition. New York: Vintage Books, 2015. Print.

Fraser, Steve. The Age of Acquiescence : The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Print.

Ikenberry, G. John., and Peter. Trubowitz. American Foreign Policy : Theoretical Essays. Seventh edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.

Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself : The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. First edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013. Print.

McCormick, James M. The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy : Insights and Evidence. Sixth edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. Print.

Morris, Aldon D. The Scholar Denied : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015. Print.

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause : A History of Abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Print.

Sublette, Ned, and Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast : A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. First edition. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. Print.

Traub, James, and John Quincy Adams. John Quincy Adams : Militant Spirit. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016. Print.

Zelizer, Julian E. The Fierce Urgency of Now : Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. New York: Penguiess, 2015. Print.

Juvenile
Yolen, Jane., and Nancy Carpenter. My Uncle Emily. New York: Philomel Books, 2009. Print.

Language and Literature
Blouin, Michael J. Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Print.

Fairchild, B. H. The Blue Buick : New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Print.

Howe, Marie. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Print.

Kirsch, Gesa. Feminism and Composition : A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. Print.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies : Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print.

LaPlante, Alice. The Making of a Story : A Norton Guide to Creative Writing. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Print.

Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. First edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2000. Print.

Sui Sin Far, Amy. Ling, and Annette. White Parks. Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Print.

White Parks, Annette. Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton : A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Print.

Medicine
MacLeod, Mary J., and Claire Macdonald of Macdonald. Call the Nurse : True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle. 1st North American ed. New York: Arcade Pub., 2013. Print.

Military Science
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism : How Americans Are Seduced by War. Updated edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. New York: Plume, 2006. Print.

Music
Beer, Anna R. Sounds and Sweet Airs : The Forgotten Women of Classical Music. London, England: Oneworld Publications, 2016. Print.

Newell, David, and Deborah L. Burris. Classroom Management in the Music Room : “pin-Drop Quiet” Classes and Rehearsals. San Diego, CA: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 2012. Print.

Psychology
Gladwell, Malcolm. David and Goliath : Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Print.

Plante, Thomas G., and American Psychological Association. Spiritual Practices in Psychotherapy. Washington, DC: Americaychological Association, 2009. Print.

Troutman, Beth. Integrating Behaviorism and Attachment Theory in Parent Coaching. Cham: Springer, 2015. Print.

Yalom, Marilyn., and Theresa Donovan. Brown. The Social Sex : A History of Female Friendship. First edition. New York: Harper Perennial, 2015. Print.

Practical Theology
Tucker, Ruth. Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife : My Story of Finding Hope After Domestic Abuse. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2016. Print.

Political Science
Berman, Ari. Give Us the Ballot : The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. First Picador edition. New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Print.

Bilder, Mary Sarah. Madison’s Hand : Revising the Constitutional Convention. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. Print.

Kloppenberg, James T. Toward Democracy : The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Print.

Mann, Thomas E., and Norman J. Ornstein. It’s Even Worse Than It Looks : How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism. New and expanded edition. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016. Print.

Philpott, Daniel, and Gerard F. Powers. Strategies of Peace : Transforming Conflict in a Violent World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.

Serow, Ann Gostyn., and Everett Carll. Ladd. The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity. 6th edition. Baltimore: Lanahablishers, 2016. Print.

Zuesse, Eric. They’re Not Even Close : The Democratic Vs. Republic Economic Records, 1910-2010. NYC: Hyacinth Editions, 2012. Print.

Religion
Green, Steven K. Inventing a Christian America : The Myth of the Religious Founding. Oxford England: Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.

Jacobsen, Douglas G. Global Gospel : An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015. Print.

Jones, Robert P. The End of White Christian America. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Print.

Kruse, Kevin Michael. One Nation Under God : How Corporate America Invented Christian America. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Print.

Manseau, Peter. One Nation, Under Gods : A New American History. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015. Print.

Roberts, Michael B. Evangelicals and Science. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008. Print.

Stewart, Matthew. Nature’s God : The Heretical Origins of the American Republic. Paperback edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Print.

Sunquist, Scott W. The Unexpected Christian Century : The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity, 1900-2000. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015. Print.

Trollinger, Susan L. Righting America at the Creation Museum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Print.

Tucker, Ruth. Extraordinary Women of Christian History : What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2016. Print.

Social Sciences
Foroohar, Rana. Makers and Takers : The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. First edition. New York: Crown Buss, 2016. Print.

Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth : The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Green, James R. The Devil Is Here in These Hills : West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom. First edition. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. Print.

Hacker, Jacob S., and Paul Pierson. American Amnesia : How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Print.

Roediger, David R., and Philip Sheldon Foner. Our Own Time : A History of American Labor and the Working Day. London: Verso, 1989. Print.

World History
Bacevich, Andrew J. America’s War for the Greater Middle East : A Military History. First edition. New York: Random House, 2016. Print.

Reeves, Richard. Infamy : The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II. First Picador ed. New York: Picador, 2016. Print.

DVDs
Dispatches from the front, 2009.

A touch of zen, 2016.

Biophilic design : the architecture of life, 2012.

Boyhood, 2015.

Bridge of spies, 2016.

Falstaff : (Chimes at midnight), 2016.

Far from the madding crowd, 2015.

Free or equal : a personal view, 2011.

Huntington’s dance, 2014.

Love & friendship, 2016.

Poverty, Inc. : fighting poverty is big business, but who profits the most?, 2015.

Risen, 2016.

Spring, summer, fall, winter– and spring, 2003.

The decent one, 2015.

The karate kid, 1984.

Why has Bodhi-Dharma left for the east?, 2007.

Woodlawn, 2016.

Xmas without China, 2013.

 

New Books and Media Received (January 2016)

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The following Books (3 items) were received into the Library collection for the Seminary Library from the Seminary’s acquisitions account during January 2016.

Seminary Library

Church History

Boersma, Hans. Heavenly Participation: the Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011. Print.

Louth, Andrew. Greek East and Latin West: the Church, AD 681-1071. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2007. Print.

Solovyov, Vladimir. Lectures on Godmanhood. Translated by Peter Zouboff. San Rafael: Semantron Press, 2007. Print.

 

 

Welshimer and Seminary Library Catalogs are now combined!

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Change Note (01.25.2016): I originally reported that we had set the initial search to limit results to “Milligan College Libraries.” We discovered that this impedes catalog functionality when our website search widget is used. Consequently, we have changed the default search to “Libraries Worldwide.” As I indicate below, even when “Libraries Worldwide” is selected any relevant holdings in the Milligan College Libraries will rise to the top of your search results. You can also apply the Welshimer and/or Seminary Library limiter in the left-hand column to refine your search results to show only local holdings.

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In a process that formally began back in May 2015, the book, media, and periodicals holdings of the Emmanuel Christian Seminary Library have now been added to the P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library’s online catalog. (The Welshimer Library migrated to the WorldCat catalog platform on September 2, 2014.) As of today, January 13, 2016, the Milligan College Libraries “goes live” with a combined online library catalog!

Our catalog is operating within the WorldCat Discovery Services platform. You can easily access the catalog from the Milligan College Libraries website. On the homepage click/tap the “Catalog” tab in the MCSearch widget. (Alternatively, you can click/tap on the “Catalog” dropdown menu and select “Milligan & Libraries Worldwide”.)

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Research & Instruction Librarian Mary Jackson has created a live demo tutorial introducing some of the basic features of the catalog, so I won’t go into detail here except to highlight a few things:

  • The initial search in the catalog is defaulted to Milligan College Libraries, which will return results for both Welshimer AND Seminary Libraries. However, you can narrow your search results to either Welshimer OR Seminary Library by checking the desired Library limiter facet in the left-hand column. Conversely, you can broaden your search results to Libraries Worldwide by checking that facet. It is from the results of a Libraries Worldwide search that you can initiate an interlibrary loan request. (Note that even when Libraries Worldwide is selected any relevant holdings in the Milligan College Libraries will rise to the top of your search results.)

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  • Library holdings records for both Welshimer and Seminary Libraries are now being pushed to MCSearch so you can see potentially relevant print book and media items while you also search our electronic information resource databases. (Note, however, that you cannot search Libraries Worldwide from within MCSearch. This must be done directly from the catalog.)
  • Just like the Milligan College Libraries website, the catalog is fully mobile responsive! This means you can easily use the catalog from your smartphone or tablet. Here is a screenshot of the catalog interface on my smartphone:

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We hope you will enjoy using the combined Milligan College Libraries online catalog. Please feel free to consult any library staff person for assistance with specific issues or questions.

Checkout EBSCO eBooks to your computer for offline reading

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EbscoHosticonInstructions updated 06.10.2020

Milligan Libraries owns and subscribes to thousands of academic ebooks from EBSCO Publishing. These ebooks are accessible to authorized users from our EBSCOhost eBooks Collections database (select it from the “Resources” dropdown > Databases > “General & Multidisciplinary” on the Library website). They are also indexed for access in the Milligan Library Catalog, and will surface among other search results in Milligan OneSearch.

The EBSCOhost platform includes a built-in viewer for reading ebooks online using any modern web browser. However, most of EBSCO’s ebooks can also be checked out and downloaded to your computer to be read at leisure offline. Downloadable titles are indicated wherever you see a “Download” button at the top right side of the online viewer:

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The following instructions will guide you through the process of checking out and downloading EBSCOhost ebooks to your computer. The procedure is a little challenging at first because it requires that you create two authorization accounts and download a piece of software. However, you shouldn’t have too much trouble if you follow these instructions closely. The first 3 steps only have to be done one time. Feel free to contact a librarian if you need assistance.

Step 1: Get an Adobe ID

EBSCOhost ebooks are copy-protected using Adobe Digital Rights Management (DRM). Consequently, you will need an Adobe ID to authorize your access to the ebooks you download from EBSCOhost. You only have to do this step once.

  • Go to http://www.adobe.com/.
  • Click the “Sign in” link on the top right side of the page.
  • Click the “Get an Adobe ID” link.
  • Fill out the Sign up form then click the “Sign Up” button to complete the registration. The email address you supply will become your Adobe ID. Use this, and the password you create to access content in the Adobe Digital Editions application. Write down your Adobe ID and Password.

Step 2: Download Adobe Digital Editions

Download the Adobe Digital Editions reader application from Adobe’s website (Mac OS or Windows versions available). You will need this (free) application to view the ebooks you checkout and download from EBSCO. The process will be smoother if you already have this software on your computer before you attempt the first ebook download. You only have to do this step once.

Launch the Installer and follow the instruction prompts to complete the installation. Once the installation is complete launch Adobe Digital Editions. You will be prompted to enter your Adobe ID and password to authorize your computer. This will also prepare your computer to recognize Adobe Digital Editions as the default application for opening EBSCO ebooks. Here is a screenshot of the open application.

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Step 3: Create a My EBSCOhost account

As indicated above, if you are a currently registered Milligan University student, faculty, or staff member you do not need to create an account to view an EBSCOhost ebook online. Simply click the “PDF Full Text” link to launch the ebook viewer in your web browser.

However, if you want to checkout and download an EBSCOhost ebook to your computer for later offline reading in Adobe Digital Editions you will need to create a “My EBSCOhost” account. You only have to do this step once.

  • From any EBSCOhost database (including Milligan OneSearch) click the “Sign In” link at the top right side of the page.
  • Click the “Create a new Account” link.
  • Fill out the form then click the “Save Changes” button to complete the registration. The user name and password you supply will enable you to login to your My EBSCOhost account and download ebooks to your computer. Write down your User Name and Password.

You now have everything you need to download and read EBSCOhost ebooks on your computer. Let’s download an ebook now!

Step 4: Checkout and download an EBSCOhost ebook

NOTE: These instructions apply only to ebooks in EBSCOhost eBook Collections (Milligan Libraries also provides ebooks from other publishers. Those ebooks cannot be downloaded to your computer using these instructions).

a) Launch EBSCOhost eBook Collection from the “Resources” dropdown > Databases > “General & Multidisciplinary” on the Library website and search for a book. As noted above, EBSCOhost ebooks are also included in relevant catalog and Milligan OneSearch search results. I am searching for a book on Alexander the Great. Here’s one that looks interesting:

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b) Launch the online ebook viewer by clicking on the “PDF Full Text” link. If the book is downloadable for offline viewing you will see a “Download” button at the top right side of the online viewer in your browser window:

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c) When you click the “Download” link you will be prompted to sign-in using your My EBSCOhost account.

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d) Enter your User Name and Password from your My EBSCOhost account (see Step 3) and click the “Login” button. (If you are using a personal computer you may choose to have your web browser “remember” your credentials so you don’t have to re-type this information in the future.)

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e) Once you are logged into My EBSCOhost, a “Download This eBook” dialog box for the ebook you have selected will pop up. If the ebook is available for checkout, select the Checkout Period (this particular title can only be checked out for a maximum of 7 days, although most can be checked out for as long as 30 days) and click the “Checkout & Download” button. Notice the download dialog box informs you that you need to have Adobe Digital Editions on your computer in order to view the downloaded book (see Step 2).

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f)  If the download is successful you will see this screen:

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At the same time you should see a prompt to save an ACSM (Adobe Content Server Message) file to your computer. For convenience, save the file to your desktop.

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g) Double click the URLLink.acsm file. This will initiate the downloading of the ebook file to the Adobe Digital Editions reader application. Once the download is complete the ebook will open automatically in Adobe Digital Editions (assuming you previously downloaded the application as instructed in Step 2).

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h) Clicking on the “Library” link takes you to the screen showing all currently downloaded titles:

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i) The title will cease to be accessible for reading once the checkout period expires. However, titles can be “returned” or removed from your Adobe Digital Editions library anytime (by right-clicking on the title icon to bring up the contextual menu).

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