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Distance Education
Students
MacRae Library provides
support to distance education students in several ways.
Click on any of the links to find out more.
Find information - quick guide
Your first place to find information should
be the library homepage.
Have a look at our table to find out where to start your
search:
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Novanet
Catalogue
Novanet is a consortium of university and college libraries
in Nova Scotia. The Novanet catalogue provides a listing
of books, journals, government publications, sound and
video recordings and more.
The catalogue can be accessed from on and off
campus is located on the library homepage.
To get help with searching the catalogue, check out our
"How
to Search Novanet" guide (pdf) or view the Distance
Education section of the Novanet website.
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Interlibrary Loans / Novanet Express
Patrons with valid NSAC borrowing cards
may arrange for either books or photocopies of articles
from journals in the collections and catalogue of any
Novanet Library to be delivered to any Novanet
library within three working
days. There is no charge for this service.
Please first search for the listing of
the item you want in the Novanet full catalogue. Note
the (1/0) which indicates how many copies each library
owns, and how many are out on loan, in the column to the
right. Click on the location you would like to borrow
from. A brief record will appear with a status table below.
You will see the status of the item, whether it is 'in
library", "date due", non-circulating,
etc.
Click on "Place a hold or request
a loan" or "Request a
photocopy" to the left. You must supply your Novanet
barcode number and the last four digits of your phone
number (or your Novanet PIN) in the appropriate pop-up
box. You will receive an e-mail message to confirm that
your order was received, and again to notify you when
the item has arrived at the MacRae Library.
If you have any questions regarding Novanet
Express, please email Jolene
Reid .
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Cross-Canada Borrowing Privledges
As a Nova Scotia Agricultural College
student, you may be eligible for a borrowing card from
the Atlantic Scholarly Information Network (ASIN). This
card entitles you to borrowing privileges at many institutions
across Canada.
Access Electronic Resources from Off-Campus (Remote
Access)
The majority of the library's web-based resources including
databases, electronic journal collections and e-books
are searchable from off-campus.
If you're off campus and try to access these resources,
you'll be prompted for your NSAC network username and
password. You should access these resources from the library
website when at home, otherwise you will not be prompted
for your login and not get full access.
Students:
Username: last name, first name initial
(ex. smithj)
Password: Minimum of 6 alphanumeric (A-Z,
0-9).*
Note: You will be prompted to change
your password the first time you login the network on
campus. Contact the
IT Helpdesk (phone: 902-893-6308) to have your network
username and password activated.Please identify yourself
as a Distance Education student.
For security purposes, every 60 days you will have to
change your password (you will have to login to a computer
on campus to do so or as a distance student contact email
the IT Helpdesk
to reset your password). If your password expires you
will not have access to the electronic resources from
off-campus.
Please note: the NSAC network
username and password is not the same as your email password.
Are you currently enrolled as a business,
nursing, or education student at a Novanet Institution?
Yes? Then you could be reading a current, discipline-specific
book, online, right now, at no cost to you!
The Novanet
Distance Education Project has purchased, as a trial, books
in the disciplines of Business, Education, and Nursing.
To find a list of the titles available, go to www.novanet.ns.ca/distance_elec_books.html.
Here you can read Frequently Asked Questions about e-Books,
or view a list of available books by subject.To read the
books, click on Launch NetLibrary in the top right corner.
The first time you use
the collection you will be required to create a username
and password for yourself. You can browse or check out
a book for three hours. You may close the book and check
it in at any time, or it will automatically be checked
in after 3 hours. No one else can read a book checked
out to you. Read a book page by page, or move around by
clicking on entries in the table of contents displayed
to the left of the screen.Currently there are over 400
purchased eBooks, as well as access to over 3400 publicly
accessible eBooks.
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Contact Us
By Phone
Phone 902-893-6669 to reach a staff member at the MacRae
Library. Staff who will generally be able to answer your
questions are usually available Monday-Friday
from 8:30am-4:30pm ADT.
Email
Email the library.
Please specify that you are a Distance Education student.
LiveHelp
Live Help is a live, online chat-based
reference service that lets you ask questions and get
answers in real-time. This service is designed to answer
brief factual questions that can be answered quickly and
effectively using online resources. Ask
your question!
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