Books are a great source of background information. They play an important role in synthesizing information or describing, at length, the current state of a discipline. They can also be compilations of articles or chapters about topics related to a a broader topic.
Books and E-books can be found by searching ASA, the library's catalog, available under "Catalog" from Lehigh Libraries' homepage. (You can also use ASA to find access information journals, ejournals, conference papers, government documents and more.)
From ASA you can:
A few things to remember about ebooks:
Below are resources about books and ebooks:
To discover books and ebooks, go to ASA, the library catalog near the top of the library homepage. See this video tutorial about how to limit your search in ASA to ebooks. .Also, see the Ebooks library guide.
WorldCat is a great resource for finding books Lehigh does not own.
There are two flavors. They don't necessarily overlap completely.
Use Palci first to order a book. If Palci does not have the book, then use ILLiad.
A note about ebooks: Due to publisher restrictions, e-books are not available to be borrowed or lent through interlibrary loan.
To register for ILLiad, please follow the steps in the tutorial linked directly below this section.