Important Alert #1:  The Liliha Public Library will be closed for major renovations starting Saturday, November 24, 2018. For more information, click here.

Important Alert #2:  The Ewa Beach Public and School Library will be closed from Tuesday, December 25, 2018 to Tuesday, January 1, 2019 due to an ongoing construction project on the Campbell High School campus.  Additionally, the library will have special hours on Monday, December 24th, from 10a.m. - 5p.m., and the public computers will be down in preparation for the power shutdown associated with the construction.  The library's book drop will be open throughout the closure period.  We apologize for this inconvenience to our Ewa Beach library users.

 

Tips and tricks

If you are new to this try starting with one of our larger providers, Gale Cengage or EBSCOhost. When you are in any one of the online databases, you can opt to search across one or more of all the databases they provide. This will help you cast a wider net and begin to get a feel for how these databases work.

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Gale Cengage

1. Open any of Gale Cengage’s collections.

2. Click the Change Databases link to reveal all the databases that Gale Cengage provides

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3. Select a few to cross-search.

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EBSCOhost

1. Open any of EBSCOhost’s databases. For our example, we’ll use the Book Collection:  Nonfiction to start.

2. Click the Choose Databases link to reveal all the databases that EBSCOhost provides.

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3. Select a few to cross-search

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