Services for Faculty/Staff - Library Collection

Help Us Pick Books, Videos & Journals to Buy

We welcome your suggestions for the purchase of library materials. Please feel free to send recommendations to your subject librarian.

Book and e-book sources:

• ebrary is the library's biggest supplier of e-books, with over 400,000 e-books to choose from. Titles from more than 350 publishers, including Canadian university presses, Cambridge, Elsevier, Oxford, Springer, and Taylor & Francis.
  
  
  • ebrary Title Preview site (free, no login required)
    
    
  • ebrary Partner site (requires login)
    Site that Langara instructors and employees can use to recommend ebrary titles for the Library to buy. Allows you to preview up to 40% of the full e-book. Requires an ebrary Partner account - please contact Emma Lawson (local 5464) to get login information.
    
    
• Choice Book Reviews Online
  Reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews by subject experts.
  
  
• Amazon
  Of course!
  
  
• See also... more book, ebook and video suppliers

Journals

• The Library's journal subscriptions are reviewed annually. Please send your journal suggestions to your subject librarian or to Alison Curtis (local 5465).