[Purdue-pm] ebooks, online books

[Mark Daniel Ward]

  Dear Mark,
     Our Safari bookshelf at Purdue includes lots of online O'Reilly 
titles.  It's a great resource.  I even asked Charlotte in the 
Engineering library to add a few O'Reilly books to Purdue's Safari 
collection a few years ago when I was teaching a course using some 
O'Reilly titles, and she helped me quickly with this request.  This is 
definitely a resource that I would love to see more people taking 
advantage of.  Thank you for helping to raise awareness of this resource.
Mark

Mark Daniel Ward, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Department of Statistics
Purdue University
150 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
mdw at purdue.edu
phone: (765) 496-9563




On 8/25/10 11:31 AM, Mark Senn wrote:
> In the message "quoted" below is a low is a list of ebooks from
> O'Reilly on sale for $9.99.
>
> If you are at Purdue in West Lafayette (don't know about regional
> campuses) you can read, for example, _Programming Collective
> Intelligence_ by
>      o  Going to http://www.lib.purdue.edu/
>      o  Click "Catalog" tab.
>      o  Change "Keyword Anywhere" to "Title (omit initial a, an, the...)".
>      o  Search for "Programming Collective Intelligence".
>      o  Click on title of the book that has "Call Number: Internet".
>      o  Click on "Connect to this resource online".
> If you get "Session Unavailable" it is probably because there
> are too many at Purdue using the online service.  I'm going
> to contact the library and encourage them to buy more service
> in a few minutes.
>
> To go the O'Reilly Media's Books Online and see what books are
> availble
>      Go to http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com/
>      Click on "START USING SAFARI".
> Often, I got a
>      Session Unavailable message
>      You are signed out.
>      You are seeing this message due to one of the following conditions:
>      1.  Your account supports only one concurrent session per user, and
>          you have signed in a second time with the same credentials. Your
>          second sign in attempt disables the first session, gives you a new
>          session, and displays this message if you click in the browser
>          window of your first session.
>     2.   Your system as a limited number of sessions and there are currently
>          no sessions available. You can try signing in again. You will
>          succeed if a session is available.
>     3.  Your system has a limited number of sessions, your session
>         exceeded the timeout limit, and another user needed a session. You
>         can try signing in again. You will succeed if a session is available.
>     4.  Your system enforces a session timeout limit of 20 minutes and
>         your session exceeded the timeout limit.
> I'll complain about that to the library also.
>
> -mark
>
>> From: Marsee Henon<usergroups at oreilly.com>
>> To: mark at purdue.edu
>> Subject: UG News: 1 Day - $9.99 Exclusive - Top 10 "Ebook Deal of the Day" Geek Beach Reads
>> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:06:38 -0700
>>
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