Some of you who know me from around campus may be aware of the early reader in my life. Without going into too many personal details, suffice it to say that a healthy reading culture is evolving at our house over the past few years. We have advanced through picture-only books, lots of counting and alphabet books, through opposites, colors and that sort of basic concept work, and now enjoy anything that has between a sentence to a paragraph on each page.
The Juvenile Collection @ Drexel
August 25, 2006
Safari: new code search + custom textbooks
Okay – *now* I see the folks at Safari doing something creative with all that electronic content they have. I like the way the O’Reilly Labs guys described it:
“Code Search, lets you search through the more than 2.6 million lines of example code from almost 700 O’Reilly books. You can limit your search to a particular book, a particular category (e.g. Perl, or Java), or a particular author.”
Web of Science saved searches
Okay, time to put on my book-geek hat! I just recieved my first alert after setting up a “saved search” on the newly upgraded Thomson Web of Science platform. If you are among those who make a hobby of watching this platform closely, especially during the past year, you will have noticed upgrades arriving with suprprising regularity -every 4 to 6 months it seems. Which is all good news for users…
August 21, 2006
Safari Tech Books – new interface
From the good people at Proquest comes this news about their long overdue upgrades to the Safari e-book platform interface and feature set. Aside from faster loading and more attractive screens, I find most features to be the same aside from incorporating Amazon reviews and links to other popular books in a selected category, as determined by Amazon selling position. Anyway – let me know what you think!
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ProQuest is pleased to announce the release of Safari 5.0. The new interface will be available on August 19, 2006.
This release brings a new look and feel to the interface along with improved search capabilities. Search functionality will remain the same so users will still have the ability to keyword and code fragment search. The interface includes the following enhancements:
