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Safari Tech Books Online is a joint venture of the two large IT publishers, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. and The Pearson Technology Group. Together, they deliver over half the IT books published. Safari Tech Books Online covers the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linux/ UNIX, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Safari Tech Books Online is a reference resource, with simultaneous searching of hundreds of top IT titles for quick and reliable answers.

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From: Mark West To: 'Libraries Staff All' ; 'Daniel Beaulieu' Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: internet resource trial - Safari Tech Books Online This message is to announce the following internet resource trial: _________________________________________ Safari Tech Books Online _________________________________________ For access and information: http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/elibrary/itrials/ ________________________________________

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While searches can be done by Author, Title, ISBN, publisher, etc., the resource also allows browsing by the following categories: Applied Sciences Artificial Intelligence Business Certification Computer Science Databases Desktop Applications Desktop Publishing E-Business E-Commerce Enterprise Computing Graphics Hardware Human-Computer Interaction Internet/Online IT Management Markup Languages Multimedia Networking Operating Systems Programming Security Software Engineering