On the library shelves
» Library Catalog
To find books on the library shelves use the CCA Library Catalog Basic or Advanced Search pages.
Once you find a book you want write down the book's location and call number to locate the item on the shelves. Take the book to the circulation desk to check-out, or, if the book you want is in the library on the other campus, take the call number to the Circulation desk to get the book sent over for you to pick up the following day.
Many copyrights for books from the early 20th century and before have expired, making many of these older books, poems, and essays freely available online.
» Google Book Search
- Google Books searches the full-text search of books, and retrieves book previews and some full-view books.
- Because you are searching the full-text of the book, Google Books is great for finding content within books.
» Open-Access Text Archive
- Simultaneously search a number of open-access online book collections (such as Project Gutenberg)
- Nearly 400,000 free and copyright-free full-text books
» Project Gutenberg
- Search or browse over 20,000 e-books with expired copyrights.
- Includes books in multiple languages and audio books.
- Available in formats that are downloadable for portable e-book readers.
» The Online Books Page
- Search or browse over 25,000 books that are freely available online in a number of formats.
- Includes contemporary "open-source" books as well as older texts with expired copyrights.
- Links to e-books on third-party sites.
At other libraries
There are a number of great libraries in the Bay Area to which everyone has free and open access:
Here are a couple of tools that you can use to search a combination of library catalogs:
