Dual Enrollment

Borrowing Privileges

Below are just a few of the borrowing privileges you may enjoy as a dual enrolled student. Use our catalog to find these resources:

• Check out up to 50 books for 4 weeks with renewals available
• Multimedia including CDs and DVDs
• Equipment including laptops, DSLR cameras, video game consoles and games, tripods, and ipads

• Books
  • Offer a comprehensive view, an historic view, or background information on a topic
  • Not held to the fact-checking standards of scholarly or journalistic writing
• Government Documents
  • Legislation from a specific area or level of government
  • Reports or studies conducted by a government agency on a specific topic
  • Historical or current data collected by the government on a specific topic or demographic
  • Can be considered a primary source material 
  • Can be produced at local, state, and federal government levels
• Journals
  • Also known as scholarly, research, peer-reviewed, or refereed journals
  • Contain fewer advertisements than popular magazines
  • Articles tend to be lengthy (7 - 10 pages or more)
  • Written by the person(s) conducting the research
  • Articles have been evaluated by an editorial board of other experts before going to print
  • Sources of information are indicated by endnotes, footnotes, or a bibliography
  • May contain charts, graphs, or tables
  • Published monthly or quarterly
• Magazines
  • Popular magazines designed to appeal to a broad audience
  • Usually printed on glossy paper and contains many advertisements
  • May include opinion or current events
  • Articles are usually 5 pages or less
  • Usually does not include bibliographies
  • Published very frequently
• Newspapers
  • Provides most current information as published daily or weekly
  • Not considered scholarly
    • Writing is intended to communicate news
  • May be considered a primary source
    • If the events are recorded at the time they occur
  • Short, concise information presented in order of importance
• Statistics
  • Numerical data
  • May be raw or analyzed (interpreted numbers)

Criss Library has over 1 million ebooks! You can search for them in the library catalog. They can be read online or downloaded to your device.

Detailed instructions for using E-Books are available at the link below.

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