Sunday, January 31, 2010

IT Pro research

Holy Cow! I love this! The IT Pro has so many books that I could use just for everyday stuff to research material for school. I never knew that this was available and I have been taking e-learning classes now from Clark for over a year. It really could have helped me out on several of my other classes. This is something that every student at Clark should be aware of as a tool for them to use.

I entered the “Home PC” into the search as instructed and found that there are 1503 titles in this category. I looked at several of the books and I found myself very familiar with some of them and in fact had a few of them. But the best part was that I just got a new laptop and it runs windows 7 and I was thinking I will need to pick-up a hot for dummies for it soon so I can learn all the tricks of it. And as if by reading my mind there are several great books on just that subject in full text! I don’t need to buy them! I can read them front to back or just search for what questions I have out of them.

Another great feature was the advanced search field. You can narrow what you’re looking for from titles, authors, full text and things like if it contains certain things or not. You can really narrow down what you’re looking for its way and take your search results from a thousand books to just a dozen.

What a great tool!

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