With an inexpensive Safari Selections subscription, your cataloging information in Safari is instantly and automatically enhanced with:

• book jacket images
• tables of contents
• author notes
• fiction profiles
• biography profiles
• professional reviews from publications such as School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Choice, Booklist and Library Journal.
• excerpts
• first chapters

All enhanced content available for a record is retrieved by Internet automatically and seamlessly using the ISBNs from your MARC records. There is no database preparation; when your service begins, the content appears immediately!

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Book Jackets
There are over 2.2 million titles with book jacket images available on our content server. Over 20,000 new images are added per week! There are also over 20,000 "box art" graphics for feature film videos and DVDs.

Safari and Web Safari display images of book covers on results lists and detail pages. The user can also click to view a large image of the book cover.

Summaries
Safari will automatically include summary information in the "least detail" and "more detail" views when a summary is not included in your MARC records (Field 520$a). There are over 1.9 million summaries and annotations available through the Safari Selections subscription.

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Author Notes
Safari displays "About the Author" information for over 160,000 titles. Biographical notes about a book's author are taken directly from the book jacket or from the publisher.

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Table of Contents
Safari Selections can show patrons the table of contents for nearly 1 million titles. The table of contents can be a tremendous help to patrons when deciding whether or not a particular title would be of interest.

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Excerpts and First Chapters
Safari displays excerpts or first chapters from over 150,000 titles. Over 100 new titles are added each week. When making selections on which books to check out, this is the next best thing to having the open book in hand.

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Fiction & Biography Profiles
Additional information is available for selected biographies. This includes the biographees' name, gender, dates of flourishing, occupation, achievements, topical references, time periods and geographical references.  Over 145,000 are available.

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Professional Reviews
Safari gives your patrons access to professionally written reviews  from sources including Library Journal, School Library Journal (for K12 subscribers), Publishers Weekly, and Booklist. There are hundreds of thousands of reviews available from Safari Selections.

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