Hi! This video is to show you how to access ebooks and audiobooks that are available in
the San Antonito Library Catalog. The first thing you're going to do is log
into my.aps.edu and log into your class link by using your username and your password.
Once you've logged in through class link, you should see a page similar to this. I
have a few more options since I am a teacher, but what you want to look for is the folder
marked "APS Libraries," and go ahead and click on it. Once you've clicked on that,
you want to look for the tab that says "Library Catalog."
For those of you who've been on the catalog, before you'll notice it looks different than
years past. um Hopefully this format will make it easier for you to look for books
and find titles that you're looking for. The first thing you're going to see are "Learning
Links." This is where you find find Encyclopedia Britannica, Image Quest- where you can find
pictures to include in reports or slides, uh Culturegrams- where you can find information on
countries, continents. Then you're going to see eBooks, which we'll come back to just a minute;
recently added books, these are new books that are in our library; uh popular titles; audio books;
and topics. Topics, um, you can click on if you're interested in finding books, for example, that are
Mysteries or animal stories, um, that just sort of simplifies the search for you. But we're going to
scroll back up to ebooks. And along here there's, uh, ebooks that are available for checkout. You
can click on the Arrow to continue searching for, uh, different ebooks that are available or you
can click on "See All," which will show you all the books that are available in the San Antonito
Catalog. There are two ways in which you can check out a book. The first thing you can do is simply
click on "Check Out," or you can click on the book itself then "More Details" and then "Check
Out." Once you've checked out the book, you can go ahead and open it. And you may begin
reading the book by clicking on the arrows to the right, uh, to take yourself through the
book. When you're done reading you can close the book. If you want to use the book offline and read
it another time, you can click on "Offline Access," add there in the menu hamburger,
and it will download the book to your device. When you're done reading a book,
you may simply click on "Return," and it'll automatically return the book for you or the
book will be returned. For an audio book, it's a similar process. Once again looking at the
banner across the top will let you know if a book is available for checkout. You may once
again check out the book on the front. You may begin automatically listening to the book by
clicking "Play," or you may click on the book itself, "More Details," and then "Check Out."
Or if you want to immediately begin playing the book, you can. To play the book you simply click
on the Arrow. When you're done with the book, you once again click on "Close Book." I hope this has
been helpful in showing you how to access ebooks and audiobooks from our San Antonito Library.