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Computer Science Library Recommendations

This page allows you to recommend books for purchase by the University Library, on computer science or related topics. It is a high-tech interface to a low-tech process: your entries are emailed to the library representative Neil McGillivray who copies them by hand on to a pink form in triplicate.

All CS staff and students may recommend books, and you are encouraged to do so. Regrettably there is no automatic mechanism for buying "all interesting books": you have to say what you want.

Unless you specify otherwise, books will be ordered for the James Clerk Maxwell Library and paid for out of the Computer Science budget

Jane Hillston · Thursday 12th August 1999

Book request form

Please give as much information as possible to describe the book you want. All fields are optional, but the more you say the quicker things will be. You may find the Amazon website useful for this, and several publishers have their catalogues online. Some other useful web pages: the University Library, the informatics resources there and the electronic journals we subscribe to.

Please check the library catalogue before ordering, either through telnet or the provisional web interface.

Title
Authors
Publisher Year of publication
Number of copies    Approximate price ISBN
If you are requesting more than one copy give an explanation in the comment box below.  

I have checked the catalogue and there is no copy of this book in the library;
there is a copy of this book at another site, but I would like one for the JCM library;
there was a copy of this book, but it is missing and I want to replace it;
there is a copy of this book, but I wish to replace it with a more recent edition;
there is a copy of this book, but I want a further copy.
I have not checked the catalogue.

Other comments.