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    ** SAILS opac selection blog : http://sailsinc.blogspot.com/
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    Have the latest Google Toolbar? If so, right click on the search box above and select "Generate...". This will give you an instant search into iBistro. After installing the toolbar, just highlight a word on a web page, click on the search button on the toolbar and voila, you'll send your search to iBistro.

    Search Full-text Magazines & Journals Once you're logged in, click "Databases Available at Home" for the complete list.
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    Play with your Books

    Install the iBistro Firefox search plugin

    If you do not already have Firefox installed, download it here. To install the iBistro search plugin in Firefox, make sure that you are using Firefox as your browser, and then follow this link:
    Install iBistro search plugin.
    That's it - you're done! Click on the search box at the top right in the browser to select the search engine you wish to use, as shown here.

    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."