Skip to main content
It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

SLS 1106 - First Year Experience Orientation: Home

This guide is intended to guide SLS students through certain benchmark assignments in the SLS 1106 course across all of HCC.

Welcome!

Success written out with a key on planks of wood

 

 Welcome the library guide for First Year Experience Orientation class at Hillsborough Community College!  

This guide will lead you to resources for your financial, career and other assignments as necessary for this course.

Open or hover over the tabs across the top of this page to get started.  Then, on each page, scroll down for information about accessing the library, and the types of sources commonly used in college-level research.

 

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay 

Logging in to library resources

There are multiple ways to log-in to HCC Libraries online resources depending on how you are linked to them:

Library Log-in with Net ID

  • 1. Your username: first initial of first name, last name and any number assigned by the system. i.e. John Smith = jsmith27
  • 2. Your default password: first initial of first name CAPITALIZED, first initial of last name (lowercase) followed by your 7-digit student number, e.g., Jsmith1234567
  • 3. Library log-in with Net ID

Library access through Canvas

  • 1. In a Canvas course, click "HCC Libraries Online" from the leftnav or left navigation menu.
  • 2. Click the "Launch HCC " button
  • 3. You are logged into the Library Catalog Search (Note: use the tabs (Library Home, Databases, etc.) to access other library resources. (Click to see screenshots)
  • 4. Library access though Canvas

Library Log-in with Borrower ID

OpenAthens or Find your Institution login

  • 1. Skip the OpenAthens login and instead search "Hillsborough" in the "Find your Institution" search box.
  • 2. Use your NetID login as described above.
  • 3. Find your Institution Login

Ways to access the HCC Libraries website:

Hawk Card & the Library

Hawk Card

With your Hawk Card you can:

For information on how to log in to HCC's online research resources: