[PRL] Fwd: library trial for Safari Books Online

Matthias Felleisen matthias at ccs.neu.edu
Sun Sep 11 18:00:24 EDT 2005


Holler if you care. It looks to me like ugrad or prof ms books. -- 
Matthias


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Larry Finkelstein" <laf at ccs.neu.edu>
> Date: September 9, 2005 11:16:05 PM EDT
> To: "Faculty" <faculty at ccs.neu.edu>
> Cc: <r.burkey at neu.edu>
> Subject: FW: library trial for Safari Books Online
> Reply-To: laf at ccs.neu.edu
>
> Folks,
>
> As a means of developing a more collaborative relationship with the 
> library,
> can you please encourage your stduents to try this out and provide 
> feedback
> to Rebecca?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r.burkey at neu.edu [mailto:r.burkey at neu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:21 PM
> To: Jo.Casey at neu.edu; L.Finkelstein at neu.edu; V.Proulx at neu.edu;
> p.tarasewich at neu.edu
> Subject: library trial for Safari Books Online
>
>
> Hello,
> Greetings from your library liaison! I'm sending this to the faculty 
> members
> in CCIS whom I have personally met. Please help me by passing the word 
> on to
> your colleagues and students!
>
> The library has set up a trial for the Safari Tech Books Online (from
> Proquest). This e-book service has been requested consistently by 
> various
> people in CCIS, and we hope we will be able to add it to our offerings 
> (as
> long as budget money can be found). For now, you can try it out until
> November 15, 2005, at:
>
> http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=neu
>
> Here is what their main page has to say about the service:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Conduct searches across all of the technical books in the Safari
>  bookshelf. Zero in on answers to time critical questions in a matter 
> of
>  seconds.
>
>
>  Read books from cover to cover. Or, simply flip to the page you need.
>
>
>  Browse books by category. With Safari researching any topic is a snap.
>  From XML, to database to .Net, you'll find your answer in Safari.
>
>
>
>
> Right now the trial will only work on campus.  We are investigating 
> whether
> we can add off-campus access through the proxy server.
>
> I had a chance to take a quick look at the trial, and it looks like the
> search function is more like Google's -- Boolean operators don't seem 
> to be
> necessary; it's just looking for each of the individual words I type. 
> It
> appears that quotation marks around a phrase will make it do a phrase
> search.
>
> Anyway, enjoy playing around with the trial, and please let your 
> colleagues
> and students know about it! And I would love to hear your feedback on 
> the
> product.
> Thanks very much,
>
> Rebecca Burkey
> Research & Instruction Librarian
> 270 Snell Library, Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue, 
> Boston, MA
> 02115
> phone: 617-373-2344 * fax: 617-373-5409
> email: r.burkey at neu.edu
>
>
>




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