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O'Reilly Safari Books Online
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Online access to 40,000+ technical books, videos, tutorials, case studies, and learning paths from O'Reilly & Associates, The Pearson Technology Group (including Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams) and other publishers.
ACCESS NOTE: You will be required to provide your U-M email address (in the format: uniqname@umich.edu). This will provide temporary, 3-day access to the O’Reilly Safari content. To create an account, respond to the account creation email that will be sent after entering your email address. Creating an account provides access to personalized features and the smart phone app. Guests visiting U-M library facilities may ask for assistance at a library service desk to obtain access from a library computer. Guest users are granted temporary access only and are not eligible for a permanent account via U-M.
Skillsoft Books
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Business, technical, and engineering e-books: ITPro, EngineeringPro, BusinessPro, and IT & Desktop videos.

LinkedIn Learning (University of Michigan)

LinkedIn Learning is an on-demand learning solution designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career. LinkedIn Learning is available for free to all benefits-eligible active faculty and staff at the University of Michigan.

Formerly Lynda.com, this service is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. With over 13,000 high quality on-demand courses available, you’ll also receive personalized course recommendations based on unique, data-driven insights from millions of professionals on the worldwide LinkedIn network.

Michigan Online

Michigan Online: https://online.umich.edu/catalog/

Learn more about Michigan Online and the resources available there.

List of Courses Available

Teach-Outs bring together people from around the world to learn about and address important topics in society. Join us in these free and open online learning events to hear from diverse experts, discuss and connect with other participants, and consider actions you can take in your own community.

eBook Resources at Michigan

eBook Guide from the University of Michigan Library

eBook listings from Kresge Library Services

Audio Books at Michigan

EBSCO Audiobooks

Variety of audiobooks including business, fiction, non-fiction subjects. To use, you will need to create a "My EBSCOhost" account. Loans for audio books are for a set period of time.

Skillsoft Books
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In addition to ebooks, this collection has a number of audiobooks that might be downloaded as a set of MP3 files (often 6-8 for a book).

Some Interesting eBooks

Writing for the Media by Adrian Wheeler
ISBN: 9781787566132
Publication Date: 2019-01-14
How to Be a Positive Leader by Jane E. Dutton; Gretchen M. Spreitzer
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ISBN: 9781626560291
Publication Date: 2014-06-02
The New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen
ISBN: 9781626569638
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Originals how non-conformists move the world / Grant Adam ; foreword by Sheryl Sandberg. by Grant, Adam
ISBN: 9780698405776
Publication Date: 2016

Professional Development Courses (University of Michigan)

Variety of online and in-person offerings from University of Michigan Human Resources (staff and faculty only).