eAudio Excerpts
A new feature in the Digital Library is eAudio Book Excerpts, which play right on your pc. Hear first chapters and introductions of
titles in the SAILS Digital Library. Try before you checkout and see if a book you'd like to hear is really what you're interested in listening
to. Here are a few samples from fun and popular titles in the collection:
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
Jump the Shark by Jon Hein
Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Link Builder
SAILS sends out emails telling some of the new titles in the system that match your favorite subjects. Since the bibliographic
record must have your favorite subject as the first subject listed, many new titles aren't reported. What it does is give you a reminder to
log into iBistro and do your own search.
Since no one likes to waste time performing the same search every week, we've created the SAILS Link Builder.
If you create a search for the keyword phrase: videodisc or videodiscs
This is the link that will be built:
http://opac.sailsinc.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=videodisc%20%or%20%videodiscs&srchfield1=GENERAL&user_id=XXXXXXXXX&password=XXXX
You can replace the XXXX's with your user id (barcode) and password (PIN). Then you won't have to log in each time you want to place a hold.
The next step is to figure out what to do with the link. If you have MyYahoo, or similar type of configurable home page, you can add the entire link
as a bookmark and call it "Film Search". You could add the link as a traditional bookmark in your browser, or get really fancy and put the link on a
webpage." |