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Libraries
Library Mission: Triton’s library is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the learning, teaching, as well as broader educational goals of the Institute. The Triton’s library develops and maintains a varied collection of resources, and it promotes information literacy standards. The library is committed to providing efficient services to students, faculty, and staff. Triton assigns specific librarian to facilitate the library to serve our vocational training education programs, such as Medical Assistant, Medical Biller/Coder and others, in research, reading, and possible assistance.
Library Policies: A student needs to be a registered student to use our school library. A valid student ID card or a valid ID verification is required. Students are required to check every book with the librarian. The checkout procedure is listed below:
• Checkout Period: 4 weeks for regular items (non-reference book or non-textbook); 1 week for reference books(as listed in the course syllabus); 1 day for textbooks, project/thesis (same-day return required); 1 week for video/audio, annual reports, periodicals
• Penalty for late return of any item: for regular items, $0.25/per day for each item; for reference/textbooks, $3/per day for each book;
• Renewal policy: each checked out item can only be renewed once for a new checkout period.
• Checkout limit: the maximum number of items you can have checked out at any time is 5.
Library Hours:
Monday ~ Thursday: 8:00 AM ~ 5:00 PM
Friday: Closed
Saturday: 9:00 AM ~ 5:00 PM
Sunday: Closed
On-Campus Collections
Overview: Triton’s library has books, print journal titles, electronic journal titles, and multimedia items covering areas including Medical Assistant, Medical Biller/Coder, and etc. We also provide e-library services for students who prefer researching course related materials on their own computers. All Triton students’ access privileges include: obtaining a library card; checking out books, CD’s, DVD’s and other materials; utilizing the new e-library, and full wireless access with their laptops within the library. For students without a wireless card, Triton also has DSL direct connection services allowing students to store legally downloadable research data obtained from the library. In addition, Triton students have complete support from universities librarians. For multi-lingual students, we provide many materials in different languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, etc. In all, Triton processes more than thousands various books for use of students.
Computer Laboratory
Computer facilities include Medical Assistant Lab and Medical Testing Lab, software practice lab, with full wireless Internet connections. The labs are open from 10:00 PM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday, and limited hours on Saturday and Sunday. Please check with the Registrar for current access hours during each particular term. The use of computers at Triton is an integral element of all programs. All students are highly encouraged to purchase and bring in their own laptop computers.
Computer Networks
There are a variety of high-performance computers on campus to support teaching and learning, including high-capacity servers, advanced workstations, and modern PCs. Wireless computers as well as high-speed Internet access are provided to the students on campus. The campus networks have a node on the Internet, allowing faculty and student access to electronic mail, file transfer, and the World Wide Web.
Other links for E-Library
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http://books.google.com/ |
Google Book Search |
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http://books.live.com |
Microsoft Live Search Books |
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http://www.archive.org
http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/education/theses.html |
Internet Archive
Education Library from Congress |
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http://library.ucf.edu/Rosen/guide_apa.asp |
Information regarding how to include references and citations in the
research papers - for APA style |
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http://www.asq.org/higher-ed/ |
American Society For Quality (ASQ) Higher Education Web Portal |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/education/theses.html |
The Library of Congress: Dissertations/Theses |
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http://lib.indstate.edu/about/units/reference/dissertations.html |
Indiana State University:
Free Dissertations/Theses Web Sites |
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http://www.mel.org/ |
Michigan eLibrary |
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http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us |
Houston Community College Libraries |
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |
Free eBooks |
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http://librus.hccs.cc.tx.us |
Free Databases by Subject |
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http://librus.hccs.edu/screens/holdings.html |
Periodicals Holdings by Library & ERC Location |
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http://librus.hccs.edu/screens/onref.html |
Online Reference |
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http://www.semi.org/ |
Semiconductor Manufacturing Magazine |
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http://www.digitalbookindex.org/logina.htm |
Digital book |
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http://vlib.org/BusinessEconomics |
Virtual Library |
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http://www.aclibrary.org/research/e-books.asp |
E-Book at Almeda County Library |
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http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/library/ |
New at the Palo Alto Library:
ebooks/Digital Books.
Download bestsellers, biographies, reference books and more to your
personal PC, laptop or PDA using your Palo Alto City Library card (Bay
Area residents can use the service). |
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http://links.brint.com/ |
The Premier Global Knowledge Network for Business Technology
Professionals. |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books |
Searchable digital library with more than 18,000 works. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com |
E-book section, study section, reference section, biographies section |
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http://www.ebookdirectory.com |
One of the largest directories of free eBooks online. |
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http://informit.com/free_library |
Online technical and business books. Registration required. |
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http://www.netlibrary.com |
Collection of over 37,000 free eTitles. |
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http://www.eet.com/at/ |
Industrial resource eMagazine for Engineers and Technical Managers. |
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http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm |
Forum on documentation and user support. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/ |
A good source for eBooks, but many pop-up ads. |
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http://www.informit.com/ |
Online technical books and textbooks. Offered free for a 14 day trial |
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http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/ |
U.S. Government Printing office |
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http://www.gutenberg.net/ |
Oldest free eBook site on the Web |
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http://www.cadtutor.net/ |
CAD Free Help and Tutorials |
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http://www.publist.com |
Lists of over 150,000 journals, magazines, and periodicals |
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http://www.infoplease.com |
Online almanacs and atlases |
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http://www.knowledgerush.com/ |
Large collection of eBooks for free |
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http://www.literature.org/ |
Literature online eBooks |
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http://www.blackmask.com/page.php |
Large eBook collection with high-quality scans |
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http://www.bralyn.net/etext/main.html |
1,862 eBooks free |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html |
American classics |
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http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm |
A smaller collection of free eBooks |
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http://www.techtutorials.com |
Directory of free computer and networking tutorials |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ |
Excellent source of over 1,800 free eBooks in 3 formats. | |
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