Recreational Therapy Research Guide
Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship
Finding Books
Catawba's Library Catalog
You can search our library holdings for print books and eBooks. To access eBooks from off-campus, use your Catawba College username and password.
A general term (e.g. recreation) will retrieve thousands of books on that topic. Use the format box on the left to limit your search to books. You can also type in a more specific search term to make your search more focused (e.g. therapeutic recreation).
Most current titles related to therapeutic recreation will be eBooks. For example, here is a picture of the catalog record for the eBook, Effective Management in Therapeutic Recreation Service. When you find an eBook you would like to read, click on the link that says View eBook to read the actual book online.
EBOOKS
You can also search the following databases for a variety of eBook titles.
- ABC-CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new windowCollection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism. Includes large a collection of slave narratives.
- Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete This link opens in a new windowFind scholarly ebooks on all subjects.
- eBooks on EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
- EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection This link opens in a new windowCollection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
- hoopla This link opens in a new window
- NC Live (Home Grown) Ebooks Collection via BiblioLabs This link opens in a new windowEbooks from North Carolina publishers and authors. Includes fiction, non fiction and poetry.
- Omnigraphics Health Reference Sourcebooks This link opens in a new windowStraightforward and authoritative ebooks on consumer health topics.
- OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) This link opens in a new windowOER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Includes hub for textbooks for frequently taught courses at North Carolina's colleges and universities.
- Open Library This link opens in a new windowFind ebooks from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window