We've been asked this question more than once, so here's a good place in which to answer it. Question: Is there any easy way of searching the library's ebook holdings - so that books the library doesn't own don't appear in the results list? The answer is there are two ways you can do this:
1. In the online library catalogue you can go to the guided or the advanced search and in the 'Type of Media' /'Media Type' drop down menu, select E-books. You can enter your search terms in the search box and only library-owned-books will be returned as results.
2.On Dawsonera itself, on the advanced search tab, there is a box "Include not owned". Make sure that this box is unchecked or unticked.
Another query which has come up on more than one occasion, is that students have difficulties reading ebooks online. There are probably a million different reasons for this. Here are two solutions depending upon OS and browser type:
1. Windows and Internet Explorer. If you see the error ""Internet Explorer has encountered a Problem and needs to shutdown", check if you have the quickfind browser helper object (BHO) installed. To read Dawsonera e-books, you should disable this BHO. Details on how to do this can be found here
2. If you are using Mac OS X and Firefox, you may need to install a PDF Plugin for Firefox on Mac OS X in order to read ebooks online
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