Library Fact
SMCM Library is the largest library in St. Mary's, Calvert, and Charles Counties
Finding Books
- SMCM
catalog - includes books, videos, scores, electronic
resources, and more.
Tip: Choose from the format menu to limit your results.
- USMAI catalog -
University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions. This catalog
includes the 14 University System of Maryland campuses plus Morgan State
and SMCM.
- Renew
books - a link to "my account" where you can
renew your borrowed items.
- WorldCat -
search over 60,000 libraries worldwide.
- ILLiad -
borrow books not available through USMAI libraries.
- Local libraries
- Project Gutenberg -- the first and largest single
collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder
of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire
the creation of eBooks and related technologies today
100,000+
digital books, texts and documents free and 40,000+ for a fee.
- The Universal Digital Library:
Million Book Project Collection -- hosted
at Carnegie Mellon University, designed to preserve the world's literary
and cultural heritage.
- Turning the Pages - 15 digitized books from the British Library, including Notebook by William Blake and Sketches by Leonardo da Vinci. Mimics the way a researcher would exam a book.
