{"id":5683,"date":"2012-09-11T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:23:49","slug":"e-books-available-for-free-to-mdc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/e-books-available-for-free-to-mdc-students\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Books Available For Free To MDC Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Dade College students now have access to a library of e-books<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at no cost<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">using their iPads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since spring 2012, more than 50,000 e-books are available for download on the iPad from the MDC library website. The library does not provide iPads for students to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead of checking out six books, students will be able to carry them all in the reader,\u201d Wolfson Campus librarian Marta Frydman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frydman hopes e-books will also eventually be available through the MDC library website for devices such as the Kindle, Nook, and other e-readers. Using the service, e-books can only be downloaded on an iPad through an application called \u201cBlue Fire\u201d that connects directly to the online college database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students can access the database by logging into the electronic library catalog on the library website <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/main\/library\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.mdc.edu\/main\/library<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then they must search for the book or file they want and click download. An MDC ID number and a four-digit pin are necessary to log into the database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once a book has been downloaded onto the device, the student has a week before it expires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides books, audio files, music, PDFs and electronic journals can also be downloaded from the site to the iPad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cBlue Fire\u201d application allows students to copy and paste text for research papers and helps with citation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Textbooks are currently unavailable for download.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe accessibility the e-books provide is great,\u201d said Dania Soriano, assistant librarian at the Wolfson Campus. \u201cYou can read books and hear them. It is really nice for the students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Databases such as the ABC Cleo, Epsco and the Earth and Environmental Science collections have proved to help students in subjects such as English and history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot of our students rely on the digital collection for research,\u201d said Theo Karantsalis, Associate Director of Learning Resources at the Meek Center, where students in ENC1102 have been using the online research guide for help with essays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The e-books are available for students faculty and staff at all eight MDC campuses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have something for everybody in this database world,\u201d Karantsalis said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Dade College students now have access to a library of e-books\u2014at no cost\u2014using their iPads. Since spring 2012, more than 50,000 e-books are available for download on the iPad from the MDC library website. The library does not provide iPads for students to use. \u201cInstead of checking out six books, students will be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E-Books Available For Free To MDC Students - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/e-books-available-for-free-to-mdc-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-Books Available For Free To MDC Students - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Miami Dade College students now have access to a library of e-books\u2014at no cost\u2014using their iPads. 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