The library provides access to two different models of e-book through ebrary.com. The majority of the ebooks we get through ebrary are part of a 70,000 volume subscription. These books allow multiple people to use them at one time, but they may be withdrawn from the collection at the request of their publishers. The library also buys ebook versions of certain texts; most of these are only accessible to one user at a time.
Browsing a book on Ebrary
When you click on the Electronic Book link in for an item in the library catalog, you may be brought to a screen that looks like this:
In the left side of the window, you will see several links. Normally, you'll click on Read Online. 
You'll get to a page that looks like this:
Towards the bottom of the left side, you will see the table of contents.
Clicking on a chapter title in the Table of Contents will cause the first page of that chapter to be displayed in the right side of the window.
Clicking on the Forward and Back arrows at the top left will let you page through the text.
Next to the Forward and Back arrows is box that says "Page [] of []".
Clicking on that box will change the text to "Go to page" 
and typing in a specific page number, then pressing Enter will let you skip to that page.
You can search within the text using the box on the left side below the book title that says Search within book. Chapters that contain your keyword will show a colored bar next to them.
Printing from Ebooks on Ebrary
Each book has a set limit of pages that can be printed; these vary between books. You'll see that limit on the first screen that comes up.
To print pages or a chapter from an Ebrary book, you'll really be 'saving to PDF' and then printing the PDF document.
Click on the Print To PDF icon 
on the whte bar (below the blue Proquest bar):
A window will come up allowing you to print either the current page, a range of pages, or the current chapter.
Choose which segment to print and input the page numbers if necessary, then click Continue. (You can also choose what citations style to put the citation for the book in.)
It make take a minute or so, but once the PDF has been generated and downloaded, a window will come up with a button that says Open PDF. 
Clicking on the Open PDF button will let you save the file to your computer.
Then open the file in your PDF reader or in the browser, and you can then use the regular print browser functions to print it.
Downloading and Bookmarking Books on Ebrary
Setting up your ebrary account
In order to download or take notes on an Ebrary book, you'll have to 'check it out' through an account you create on ebrary.
Creating your account is free and easy.
Click on Sign In in the upper right corner of the screen:
In the window that comes up,
Click on Create an Account:
Then you'll need to fill out the form below (You need to use your Drew email address and Drew ID for this.):
Once you've created your account, you'll be able to sign in. (If you forget your password, put your userid in the userid field and click the request your password link.)
You can tell you've signed in, because it will say "Signed in as:" your email address in the upper right corner:
Downloading & Printing
In order to print pages from an ebrary book, you'll need to download them first, once you're logged in to ebrary.
You can download material from an ebrary book in two formats: PDF or "Adobe Digital Editions."
- PDF is best for printing and can be read on almost any device, but you will be able to download no more than 60 pages.
- Adobe Digital Editions requires installing the Adobe Digital Editions reader on the computer/device you will be using (see http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ ), but lets you download and use the entire book (it becomes unreadable after 14 days) and has a very nice interface.
To download from the book, click on the Download 
button near the top of the screen. A pop-up window should appear.
If you want a PDF, either
- select "Create an image PDF of the current chapter" and choose the chapter in the dropdown box, or
- select "Create an image PDF of pages ___ to ___" and enter the page numbers.
NOTE: the page numbers you use here should be those that appear in the upper right hand corner of your screen, NOT the printed page numbers inside the book!
Then click OK in the lower right. You'll get a new pop-up; choose whether to save or open the document.
Once in PDF, you can print using the File -> Print command in Adobe Reader.
Adobe Digital Editions
If necessary, install Adobe Digital Editions from http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/
Then, select "Download the Entire document for X days in Adobe Digital Editions format". (The browser will tell you if you don't have Adobe Digital Editions).
Some portions of Ebrary books can be printed from within the Digital Editions format: to find out how much of a given book you can print, open it in Digital Editions, and from the Reading drop-down on the top left, pull down to "Item Info" which will tell you how many pages you may print.
Remember: If you just want to browse/read the book from a computer or device that has online access, you don't need to download it at all- just page through it on ebrary. You can save it to your 'bookshelf' to refer to later, also.
Bookshelf
To keep track of books you'd like to refer to repeatedly, you can put them into your bookshelf.
Be sure to sign in to Ebrary (above). When you are viewing a book it can be added to your bookshelf by using the "Add to my Bookshelf" button in the upper right corner of the right-hand box:
You can view books from your bookshelf by clicking the Bookshelf tab in the top left of the Ebrary screen:
To select a book from your bookshelf, click on its title or cover:
To remove a book from your bookshelf, click on the Trashcan 
icon next to it in your bookshelf and click the OK button in the window that comes up.
Marking/Highlighting/Commenting on a Book
Want to mark a particular quote or portion of a book? Use your cursor to mark the section, then click on the Highlight button 
at the top of the page. The text will appear highlighted in yellow.
Highlighted sections will be listed under the NOTES tab on the right side of the viewer:
and under the title of the book in your Bookshelf:
Visit your highlights by clicking on them.
Annotating
You can also highlight and annotate sections of the text. To add your note to a section of the text, select it, then click the down-pointing triangle next to the highlight button
and select one of the icons from the drop-down list htat shows a little pop-up window (the 4th, 5th and 6th items on the list).
The text will be highlighted and a pop-up window will appear for you to type in:
Type your note and click OK.
(Choosing from the drop-down triangle also allows you to highlight in different colors if you desire.)
Single User Books
A small percentage of the books in Ebrary can be only used by one person at a time. You'll recognize that you're using one because you'll see a
"Release this Title" button among the tools at the top of the book's page:
In order to be kind to others, please click on "Release this Title" when you're done using it.