{"id":6320,"date":"2024-07-12T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blackboard\/?page_id=6320"},"modified":"2024-07-12T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:12:05","slug":"bookshelf-by-vitalsource-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blackboard\/bookshelf-by-vitalsource-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf by VitalSource &#8211; Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Bookshelf?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bookshelf by VitalSource is an online text delivery system for higher education that collaborates with companies, universities, publishers and resellers, providing digital course materials to users. It is an e-textbook system that enhances learning through digital content and you can use it exactly like you use a hardcopy book (highlight, annotate etc.). You are able to access it via Blackboard Learn wherever you are located.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View your eTextbook(s) through\u00a0Blackboard Learn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>e-Texbooks are automatically adapted to the Blackboard Learn courses by your instructor<\/strong>. That is, once you login to a Bb course, you will find a menu item with the name\u00a0<strong>eTextbook<\/strong>. In this eTextbook area, there is the link to the e-book. All eTexbooks are added in the Blackboard courses <strong>at the latest<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>by the end of online late registration of each semester\/session\/term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a user is about to access Bookself by VitaSource and her e-Textbook for the first time, then she first has to activate her VitalSource account. This procedure only takes place <strong>once. If you use VS for the first time, click <a href=\"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blackboard\/activate-your-vs-user-account-updated-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activate Bookshelf by VitalSource<\/a> to view\u00a0how to activate your user account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>View your eTextbook(s) through\u00a0VitalSource<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VitalSource Bookshelf offers you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instant access to your eTextbooks for online and offline use<\/li>\n<li>Access via multiple devices that are able to synchronize<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cRead Aloud\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0option so as to listen as Bookshelf reads to you<\/li>\n<li>Flash Cards and Review Mode so as to review the material<\/li>\n<li>Notes and Highlights\u00a0so as to color and keep notes<\/li>\n<li>Global Search for searching content in an eBook or in your library<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia Lookup for looking up unfamiliar words with Define and Wikipedia Search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To access and manage\u00a0your eTexbooks and user account via VitalSource visit the\u00a0website <a href=\"https:\/\/login.vitalsource.com\/user\/decide?brand=bookshelf.vitalsource.com&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshelf.vitalsource.com%2Fuser%2Fdecide%3Fafter%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitalsource.com%2Fconversion_requests%2F6f74f6b7e1fe103a509001cb5c8f6287745b4186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VitalSource.com<\/a> and access BookShelf or directly visit <a href=\"https:\/\/login.vitalsource.com\/user\/decide?brand=online.vitalsource.com&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fonline.vitalsource.com%2Fuser%2Fdecide%3Fafter%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbc.vitalsource.com%2Fbooks%2FBOOKSHELF-TUTORIAL%3Fbc_token%3D4cd5b100-20fc-013d-0b00-223e75ac3b15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BookShelf<\/a>\u00a0and use your @acg.edu email credentials to login.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Bookshelf? 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