24/7 question on SAP R/3

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Visitor: any training material about SAP R/3 software

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Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: Hello. I'm a reference librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: Hello, this is the reference librarian. I'm reading your question...

Visitor: hallo

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: I'm not familiar with any training material about SAP R/3 software. What kind of software is this?

Visitor: ERP CMMS computrized maintenance mangment system

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: WE can check tha library catalog to see if there are some books. Are you a Northeaster student or a Boston college student? (or other?)

Visitor: northeaster

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: ok, looks like there are some books in the Northeastern library. I odun them by doing a "NUCat" search. I can show you ...

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: well, i'm having a hard time with the co-browsing. i'll just try to send you the links and isntructions

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: http://www.lib.neu.edu/

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: just type in sap r/3 in the NUCat search box

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: here's one book:

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: Author Geiss, Marcus, 1970- Title Dynamic implementation of SAP R/3 / Marcus Geiss and Roland Soltysiak.
Imprint Harlow, England ; New York : Addison-Wesley, 2000.

LOCATION
SNELL STACKS CALL # QA76.9.C55 G4513 2000 STATUS AVAILABLE


Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: are you there?

Visitor: yes

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: ok, great. Did you see the book I sent you which shoudl be at the Snell Library?

Visitor: yes it is good

Visitor: but could you know if it had a demo of the s/w or not

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: Also, you might find other books in a databse called WorldCAt which yu can request to have sent to you at the Northeastern library. WorldCAt includes books from many many libraries. So if you need more, try the databse World Cat.

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: I can't really tell. But there's another book I found in NUCAt that includes a CD:

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: Author Matzke, Bernd.
Title ABAP/4 : programming the SAP R/3 system / Bernd Matzke.
Imprint Harlow : Addison-Wesley, c2001.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
SNELL STACKS QA76.73.A12 M38 2001 AVAILABLE

Edition 2nd ed.
Descript viii, 726 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)



Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: What do you think?

Visitor: no it is not relevent to my interst

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: What woudl be more relevant? Could you tell me more about what you are looking for?

Visitor: SAP r?3 training or implementation or tutorials and demo for the software

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: I'll keep looking, but You might wan to contact the Librarian who specializes in Computer Science:
[Rebecca Burkey] Tel: (617) 373-2344
Email: r.burkey@neu.edu

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: hold on...

Visitor: this topic more related to maintenance mangement not computer sience

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: I did find a few things in WorldCAt that you can try to order through Interlirbary loan:

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: for example:

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: SAP R/3 business blueprint the complete video course /
Author: Curran, Thomas; Ladd, Andrew. Publication: [Paramus, N.J.?] : Pearson PTR Interactive, 2000
Document: English : Visual Material : Videorecording : VHS tape Libraries Worldwide: 3 More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author | Advanced options ...
See more details for locating this item 5. SAP the Zen of R/3 /
Author: Adamson, Rick.; Fallon, Jim., and others Publication: Syosset, N.Y. : Computer Channel, Inc., 1997
Document: English : Visual Material : Videorecording : VHS tape
Libraries Worldwide: 2

Visitor: yes it is excelent for me

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: To get to these, you need to use the interlibrary loan service: http://www.lib.neu.edu/access/ill/index.htm

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: have you used the interlibrary loan service before?

Visitor: yes

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: then you can go into your account and fill in the form for a request.

Visitor: ok thanks a lot

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Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: the second video also seems to be avialbae on line, but you might have to purchase it:

Rosario-BLC-UMass/Amherst: http://www.watchit.com/PGDSCR.cfm?c_acronym=SAPZ

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