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September 26, 2022
by Jason Yamashita
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Finding and Using Images from Online Resources

Five Tips to Support Your Search Process   Open Educational Resources LibGuide: Guides, Repositories & Collections Tab   There are many types of image repositories available online. Here’s a list of repositories (“Images” box) on our OER LibGuide to find … Continue reading

Banned Books Week Titles on OverDrive

September 27, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

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Consider reading a BANNED BOOK from our OverDrive ebook collection [New Window].

Visit the Library’s Banned or Challenged Books list [New Window] and see why these 18 OverDrive titles below have been challenged in libraries across the United States. Some of these books along with the other listed titles are available in print at our Library.

"Titles of 18 Banned Books Week ebooks available on OverDrive."

Are you new to using OverDrive? We have some tips for you on our OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window].

Additional digital book, periodical, and streaming video options [New Window]

 

A New Year Begins on OverDrive – Fall 2020

August 13, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Enjoy these new ways to engage with OverDrive digital resources [New Window] this fall.

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Explore the new OverDrive sub-collection: Race, Civil Rights, Equality…Zeitgeist! [New Window]. Click on the book’s image below to access the item’s Primo Search record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive.
"Begin Again book cover." "Notes of a Native Son book cover." "Minor Feelings audiobook cover." "The New Jim Crow book cover."

New to OverDrive…Graphic novels [New Window]! Celebrate the life of Congressman John Lewis in his co-authored trilogy March. These titles in print are also available in the Library.
"March, Book One, graphic novel cover." "March, Book Two, graphic novel cover." "March, Book Three, graphic novel cover." "They Called Us Enemy book cover."

OverDrive’s Course Reserves [New Window] sub-collection features ebooks used in courses.

Check out Leeward’s Top 22 OverDrive Books [New Window] from the last school year. For the second year in a row, Jonathan Osorio’s Dismembering Lahui is #1.


 

Need a little help with OverDrive? Use the OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window] or contact the Reference Desk [New Window].

More digital book, periodical, and streaming video options [New Window]

 

OverDrive Unlimited User Access Opportunity

June 23, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

In an effort to support awareness and learning, our OverDrive collection [New Window] vendor has launched the Black Lives Matter: Community Read program. During the time frames listed below, the following titles will be available with unlimited user access.

Click on the book covers below to borrow in OverDrive [New Window].

The Hate U Give (available through July 12) and The New Jim Crow (available through July 15) book covers.
Me and White Supremacy (available through July 19) and So You Want to Talk About Race (available June 29 to July 26) book covers.

New to using OverDrive? Please visit the OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window] or contact the Reference Desk [New Window] with your questions.

New OverDrive Reads – June 2020

June 1, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

New e-books to start your summer reading.

Click on the book’s image below to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

 Microsoft Teams for Dummies book cover. Sansei and Sensibility book cover. Upstream book cover. The Art of Showing Up book cover. The Introvert's Complete Career Guide book cover. Coronavirus: A Book for Children book cover. The Adaptation Advantage book cover.

Need a little help with OverDrive? Use the OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window] or contact the Reference Desk [New Window].

More digital book, periodical, and streaming video options [New Window]

 

OverDrive Basics and Suggested Summer Reads

May 8, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Summer is the perfect time to check out our digital OverDrive collection [New Window]. We’re currently featuring a Suggested Summer Reads [New Window] sub-collection of popular and notable titles.

If you haven’t tried using the OverDrive or Libby apps for added convenience, a new LibGuide [New Window] is available to walk you through some basics.

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While the Hawaii State Public Library System remains closed through May, you can even access their bountiful OverDrive collection using the OverDrive/Libby app you use for our collection. See “Setting Up the App” in the LibGuide [New Window] for more details. 

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And don’t forget, our “virtual” doors are always open with an assortment of digital Research Tools [New Window] to access e-books, periodical articles, and streaming videos.

 

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