LibGuides: Research Process: A Step-By-Step Guide: 2a. Books & E-Books

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The MSU Billings Library shares its Library Catalog with several other academic libraries.

To search for books owned by the MSUB Library, click the "Books" tab. To expand your search to other Montana academic libraries, search the "TRAILS Montana Academic Libraries" tab.

E-Book & Audiobook Guide

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E-Book Collections

Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
Ebook Central
SpringerLINK eBooks
Over 100,000 books available online. Springer’s eBook Collection uses the portability, searchability, and unparalleled ease of access of PDF and HTML data formats to make access for researchers as convenient as possible.
Montana Library2Go
Free Ebooks and audiobooks available through the State Library. Use your NetID & password.

Internet Archive
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

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Library of Congress Call Number Classification

The materials in the MSUB Library are organized by the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System so that materials on similar subjects are shelved together. Each item is given a subject heading that corresponds to a call number which identifies the location of the item on a shelf.

Items are arranged on the shelves from left to right, top to bottom, according to call numbers. Call numbers are read in this format: