You do not have to have a "library account" or "library card" to use the online databases if you have a myPittCC account!
The username and password that you will use to access databases online is exactly the same as what you use to access myPittCC (Moodle, PCC campus portal).
The campus has an information page about how to log in to myPittCC, especially if it's your first time.
You only have to log in if you click a database link or a link that takes you to information found inside a Library database. Once you click a database link, you will be prompted to login to myPittCC.
Throughout the Library website and research guides, links to database content are visually indicated by a blue bulldog pawprint. See the examples below:
General topic database that includes articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and more on various controversial topics.
Trouble logging in to a database:
Don't know your myPittCC login:
To check out physical items from PCC Library such as books or laptops, and to request materials through interlibrary loan:
You can renew a checked-out library item as long as no one else has placed a hold on the item and it is not overdue.
For first time renewals you can use any of the methods listed below. After you have renewed your item one time by calling, e-mailing, or using the online renewal form, you will need to bring your item to the Circulation Desk in person every other time you want to renew that item. You can renew an item multiple times as long as no one else has requested it.
Open the Library Catalog direct link.
Click the "Library Account Login" button (top right corner).
Once logged in, click Items Checked Out.
Select the check boxes next to the item(s) you want to renew.
Click Renew Selected.
You'll get a pop up box asking, "Are you sure you wish to renew the selected item(s)?" Choose OK.
Make note of the new due date.
Once you have made your selections and renewed them, click on "Logout".
