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As part of our Digital Media Collection, the Library offers e-books in EPUB, PDF, and Kindle formats.

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A collection of e-books (full-text electronic versions of published books), including over 21,000 titles across all subject areas.

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Search peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Includes physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.

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