Books and ebooks on various topics can be found using One Search, the Library's search tool. Try searching for your country of interest in the search box.
Countries and Their Cultures
CultureGramsOur Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system is used for requesting books and articles from libraries outside of the MCCCD system by our students and faculty/staff. Community members should contact their public library for ILL assistance.
There is no fee to use this system. Keeping with our general circulation policy, we recommend no more than 20 ILL requests at once. While there is no fee to use this system, on rare occasions, a lending library may request payment. In these rare cases, the PC Library will contact you if you want to proceed with the request.
We highly recommend that you first check to see if the item is at our libraries by searching in One Search. You can also expand your search results to libraries outside of MCCCD.
If you find an unavailable item (No Online Access), 
to request the Interlibrary Loan through One Search.
The ILL form will auto-populate the bibliographic information for you!
You can also go directly to our online Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system to request books and articles from libraries outside the MCCCD system. For assistance placing ILL requests, please get in touch with the Reference Desk at 602-285-7470.
You can also choose to search individual eBook databases. Searching a specific database will give you different options to narrow your search that are not available in OneSearch. Plus, you will have less unrelated information to sort through. Here are some of the eBook databases the PC Library has in our collection related to countries around the world.
Formally called "Gale Virtual Reference Library." Ebooks, subject-specific encyclopedias, biographies, and contemporary topics organized into a variety of subjects including business, education, environment, medicine, mythology, science, and technology. Easy to search. Citations provided.
A vast collection of online books covering a wide range of topics including children’s and adult fiction, non-fiction, biographies, business, computer science, cooking, crafts, education, engineering, humor, law, literature and criticism, law, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, self-help, social sciences, sports and games, study aids, language learning, travel, true crime. Citations provided.
You can either read ebooks online or download them if needed.
Here are download instructions for three of our most popular ebook collections.
1. EBSCO eBooks (Academic Collection)
2. GALE eBooks
While viewing an ebook article or chapter in TEXT view, click Download on the article toolbar.
3. Salem Press
