Book Ordering

As of 01 May 2007 ALL books will be ordered for placement in the MAIN LIBRARY. This is due to the length of time it takes to process books/books to arrive and the fact that all Informatics stock will be moved from the JCML to the Main Library in Summer 2007.

For any queries, please contact:

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

Recommend New Library Purchases

We hope that that the Library collections (both in print and online) are as relevant as possible to the taught courses and research being undertaken within the School.

As a reminder, the Library is happy to receive book recommendations from staff and students in the School. Further information can be found at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/PDF/Book_Ordering.pdf.

Please get in contact if you have any queries, or should you have any other resource recommendations.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

NEWS: BOOK ORDERING

We are now ready to start processing book orders again. All previous orders placed after May 23rd, via the online order form, have been carried forward for ordering in this financial year.

As a reminder:

PRINT BOOKS

The procedure for recommending print books is listed here.

Please check the Library Catalogue before submitting your request. You may be interested in the EUL Catalogue 'bookmarklet', which will allow you to easily check the catalogue from sites such as Amazon.

If we already have the item in stock, but you feel the Library should have more copies, please indicate this is the 'comments' section. As a general rule, for print orders, we recommend 1 copy per 20 students and you can choose to place the item on 1 week, standard loan or reserve (3 hour loan). In addition, we also offer e-reserve.


NOTIFICATION

Due to staff changes at the Library, all book orders are now being placed at the Main Library. Due to the large volume of orders processed, it will no longer be possible to notify individual requesters when the item arrives in the Library. Unless you hear from me otherwise, please assume that the order has been placed. Once placed, the progress of the order can be checked via the Library Catalogue.


E-BOOKS

We subscribe to several online book collections, and there may be items in the collection you wish to include in your reading lists. In addition, recommendations for new titles can be placed for both Safari and NetLibrary. If you wish to order an online/ebook, a different procedure should be followed, and this is listed here.

Orders do not need to be placed for any volumes in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (or the LNAI sub-series). Our online collection is updated as soon as Springer make the volume available, and can be accessed here .


KEEPING UP-TO-DATE WITH NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED

• LNCS RSS feed and/or new additions by email
• Safari RSS feed and/or new additions by email
• Other RSS feeds (MIT Press, Springer, Addison-Wesley)
• Email alerts (Cambridge University, Elsevier, Pearson/Prentice-Hall...)
• 'New Books' added to EUL stock

*** All book orders are subject to there being sufficient funds ***

All of the above information is available via the Guide to Resources in Informatics.

NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

This Blog will no longer publish weekly lists of new books from O'Reilly/Safari. To keep up-to-date, please use the RSS feed in your own feed reader, or see the relevant page in the Guide to Resources in Informatics.

NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

This blog will no longer list weekly, new items published by Springer. To keep up-to-date, click here for new books published by Springer, including those in the LNCS series.

NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

New titles: week ending Friday 7th July 2006

1. Informing Digital Futures (Damodaran et al.)
   
2. National Systems of Innovation in Comparison
   
3. Canadian Semantic Web
   
4. Handbook of Multibiometrics (Ross et al.)
   
5. Guide to Wireless Network Security (Vacca)

RECOMMEND PURCHASE

1. Biomedical Simulation Articulated Motion and Doformable Objects Advances in Data Mining
2. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
   
3. Designing Smart Homes
   
4. ConceptualStructures: Inspiration and Application
   
5. Image and Video Retrieval
   
6. Computers Helping People with Special Needs
   
7. Digital Rights Management
   
8. Automata, Languages and Programming
   
9. Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
   
10. Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components
    
11. Biomedical Image Registration
    

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NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

New titles: week ending Friday 7th July 2006

To view all titles available via Safari, search 'All Books' on the Safari website

1. Easy iPod® and iTunes®
2. eBay Auction Templates Starter Kit
3. Encryption in a Windows Environment: EFS File, 802.1x Wireless, IPSec Transport, and S/MIME Exchange
4. Extending and Embedding PHP

These items are available as print or e-books - RECOMMEND PURCHASE

NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

New titles: week ending Friday 30th June 2006

1. Embedded Robotics (Bräunl)
2. e-Business and Telecommunication Networks
3. Distributed Event-Based Systems (Mühl et al.)
4. Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns (Hruby)

RECOMMEND PURCHASE

1. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing – ICAISC 2006
2. Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2006
3. Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
4. Mathematics of Program Construction
5. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
6. Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence
7. Privacy Enhancing Technologies
8. Unifying Theories of Programming
9. Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation
10. Cognitive Vision Systems
11. ECOOP 2006 - Object-Oriented Programming
12. Combinatorial Pattern Matching
13. Logical Approaches to Computational Barriers
14. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems
15. Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems

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NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

New titles: week ending Friday 30th June 2006

To view all titles available via Safari, search 'All Books' on the Safari website.

1. JavaScript Phrasebook
2. Java Phrasebook
3. Upgrading and Repairing Networks
4. Secrets of Adobe Bridge: Making the Most of Adobe Creative Suite 2
5. Learning Web Design, 2nd Edition
6. Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook
7. Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
8. Head First Servlets and JSP
9. Apache: Phrase Book: Essential Code and Commands
10. Special Edition Using FileMaker® 8
11. Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals
12. Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture

These items are available as print or e-books - RECOMMEND PURCHASE

NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

New titles: week ending Friday 23rd June 2006

To view all titles available via Safari, search 'All Books' on the Safari website.

1. Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, R2 Edition
2. Digital Lighting & Rendering, Second Edition
3. RFID+Exam Gram
4. Microsoft® Visual C# 2005 Unleashed
5. Movie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
   

These items are available as print or e-books - RECOMMEND PURCHASE

NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

New titles: week ending Friday 23rd June 2006

1. Advances in Computer Graphics
   
2. Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
   
3. Algebra, Meaning, and Computation
   
4. Digital Mammography
   
5. Performability Has its Price
   
6. Information Security and Privacy
   
7. RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX
   
8. Structural Information and Communication Complexity
   
9. Developments in Language Theory
   
10. Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services
    
11. Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
    
12. Component-Based Software Engineering

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NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

New titles: week ending Friday 16th June 2006

1. The Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology for Organizational Resilience
2. Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
   

RECOMMEND A PURCHASE

1. Public Key Infrastructure
2. Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency - ICATPN 2006
3. Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
4. Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation
5. Combinatorial Image Analysis
6. Advances in Web-Age Information Management
7. Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
8. Learning Theory
9. Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering
10. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
11. Perception and Interactive Technologies
12. Coordination Models and Languages
13. Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
14. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
    
15. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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New titles: week ending Friday 9th June 2006

1. Adaptive Learning of Polynomial Networks

RECOMMEND A PURCHASE

1. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

1. Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services
2. Advances in Artificial Intelligence
3. Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security
   

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NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

To view all titles available via Safari, search 'All Books' on the Safari website

Week ending Friday 16 June 2006

1. The Business Case for Enterprise-Class Wireless Lans (Cisco Press)
   
2. Absolute Beginner’s Guide to eBay: Fourth Edition (Que)
   
3. Macs on the Go!: Guide to Mobile Computing for Mac Laptops Using Mac OS X (Peachpit
   Press)
   
4. SamsTeach Yourself MySQL® in 10 Minutes (Sams)
   
5. Apple Training Series iLife ’06 (Peachpit Press)
   
6. Apple Training Series GarageBand 3 (Peachpit Press)
   
7. Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP (O'Reilly)
   
8. Learning PHP and MySQL (O'Reilly)

Week ending Friday 09 June 2006

1. Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook,
   and InfoPath (Addison Wesley Professional)
   
2. Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins, Second Edition (Addison Wesley Professional)
   
3. User Mode Linux® (Prentice Hall)
   
4. Enterprise JavaBeans, 3.0 (O'Reilly)
   
5. Search Engine Optimization (O'Reilly)
   
6. IPv6 Essentials (O'Reilly)
   
7. MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
   
8. Real World QuarkXPress 6: For Macintosh and Windows (Peachpit Press)
   
9. PC Pest Control (O'Reilly)
   
10. Understanding MySQL Internals (O'Reilly)
    
11. The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming (Addison Wesley Professional)
    
12. Maya 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide (Peachpit Press)
    
13. REALbasic Cross-Platform Application Development (Sams)
    
14. Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Addison Wesley Professional)
    
15. StatisticsHacks (O'Reilly)
    
16. Upgrading and Repairing Pcs, 17th Edition (Que)
    
17. No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP (SitePoint)
    
18. Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache (SitePoint)
    
19. HTML Utopia, Second Edition (SitePoint)
    
20. The Flash Anthology (SitePoint)

These items are available as print or e-books - RECOMMEND PURCHASE

NEW BOOKS: Springer and LNCS

Week ending Friday 02 June 2006

1. Advanced Information Systems Engineering (LNCS)
2. Applied Cryptography and Network Security (LNCS)
3. Flexible Query ANwering Systems (LNAI)
4. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (LNAI)
5. Formal Approaches to Software Testing (LNCS)
6. Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components (LNCS)
7. Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2006 (LNCS)
8. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (LNAI)
9. Computational Science - ICCS 2006 (LNCS)
10. Reliable Software Technologies -- Ada-Europe 2006 (LNCS)
11. Computational Science - ICCS 2006 (LNCS)
12. Computational Science - ICCS 2006 (LNCS)

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Week ending Friday 26 May 2006

1. High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Recommend a book

Week ending Friday 19th May 2006

No update available

Week ending Friday 12th May 2006

No update available

NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

Week ending Friday 02 June 2006

1. Web Services on Rails (O'Reilly)
2. Security Log Management (Syngress)
3. RFID Security (Syngress)
4. Practical VoIP Security (Syngress)
5. Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls (Syngress)
6. Macromedia® Dreamweaver® 8 (Macromedia Press)
7. Apple Training Series: iWork ’06 with iLife ’06 (Peachpit Press)
8. CCSP SNPA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition (Cisco Press)
9. Adobe® Audition® 2.0: Classroom in a Book® (Adobe Press)
10. Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Adobe Press)
11. Upgrading and Repairing Servers (Que)
12. HACKING: The Art of Exploitation (No Starch Press)
13. Advanced Host Intrusion Prevention with CSA (Cisco Press)
14. Digital Character Animation 3 (New Riders)

Week ending Friday 26th May 2006

1. Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger (O'Reilly)
   
2. ASP.NET Cookbook, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly)
   
3. Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity (O'Reilly)
4. Home Wireless Networking in a Snap (Sams)
   
5. Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3 (Que)
   
6. Skype™: The Definitive Guide (Addison Wesley Professional)
7. Building Scalable Web Sites (O'Reilly)
8. Java™ I/O, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly)
9. Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep (Que)

Week ending Friday 19th May 2006

1. Java EE and .Net Interoperability: Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices (Prentice Hall)
2. JUNOS Cookbook (O'Reilly)
   
3. Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals (Cisco Press)
   
4. Flash 8 Cookbook (O'Reilly)

These items are available as print or e-books - RECOMMEND PURCHASE

NEW TITLES: ScienceDirect Books

New book titles on ScienceDirect:

These new titles have been added to the reference works available on ScienceDirect.

ISBN/ISSN: Title
0080448542: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
0123708796: Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine
17469791: Research on Emotion in Organizations
15740706: Handbook of Economic Forecasting
0091679X: Methods in Cell Biology

These are NOT part of our ScienceDirect subscription an must be purchased seperately. To recommend purchase, please contact your Liaison Librarian, who will take the suggestion to the School Library Committee.

NEW BOOKS: Addison-Wesley

Update: week ending Friday 12 May 2006

1. NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming
2. Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET
3. Skype™: The Definitive Guide
4. Java Concurrency in Practice
5. Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

How to recommend a book

NEW BOOKS: O'Reilly/Safari

Weekly update: week ending Friday 12 May 2006

1. Photoshop® CS2 Speed Clinic, The: Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time
2. Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
3. Launching Your Yahoo!® Business
4. UNIX to Linux® Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
5. The Art of Software Process Improvement (not available via Safari)
6. Learning UML 2.0
7. Linux Annoyances for Geeks
8. Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
9. Just Say No To Microsoft

How to recommend a book

NEW BOOKS: Addison-Wesley

Update: week ending Friday 05 May 2006

1. Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005

Update: week ending Friday 28st April 2006

1. Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track available via Safari
2. Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

RECOMMEND A BOOK

FEATURE: RECOMMEND A BOOK

Please check the Library Catalogue before submitting your request (see also EUL Catalogue 'bookmarklet'). If we already have the item in stock, but you feel the Library should have more copies, please indicate this is the 'comments' section.

All book orders are subject to there being sufficient funds.

Suggesting Print Books

• Staff/PG students: Book Purchase Request Form
  If you are placing a request for a particular course, please name the course. If you are requesting more than one copy of a book, please indicate how many students are on the course.
• UG Students: Book suggestion form
  In order for your request to be processed, please treat all fields as mandatory and submit any additional information as appropriate (including which Library site the book should be placed). UG students may only request 1 copy of an item, should you feel the Library should have more copies, please contact your course organiser to make the recommendation.

Suggesting e-Books

• Safari
  If you wish to suggest a title to add to our online Safari book collection, please use the Safari Online Recommendation Form. Upon receipt, all recommendations will be considered for exchange at the next scheduled School Library Committee meeting. All accepted suggestions will be exchanged the next working day after the Committee meeting. The School Library Representative will notify the School of any changes to the collection.
• NetLibrary
  If you wish to suggest a title to add to our online NetLibrary collection, please contact Sarah Kelly directly.

Ordered items

All requesters will be notified when the item has arrived in the Library, but there may be a short time between this notification and when the item is actually available for borrowing. The Library Catalogue can be used to check the item status.