Safari Tech Books Online

The East Baton Rouge Parish Library subscribes to the complete Safari Tech Books Online catalog. The entire collection of over 1,800 titles is available to registered patrons of the library. Users can access any title from their home or business by clicking on the Safari Techbooks link in the Business Databases menu or by selecting the Online Databases link from our website homepage and then entering their library card number.

Once you have arrived at the Safari homepage, you can search the collection by author, title, publisher or subject. If you just want to browse a list of titles, click on the “Library” button. An advanced search feature is available. Special software for reading the books online is not required. Content is displayed with the book’s table of contents on the left side of the page with text in the remaining viewing area of the page. Print, email and bookmark options are included.

A partial listing of business related titles include, Que’s Official Internet Yellow Pages 2006 Edition, Microsoft® Small Business Kit 2004 Edition, and Power Up Your Small-Medium Business: A Guide To Enabling Network Technologies 2004 Edition.

Business Person of the Month: Trina Prejean

Trina Prejean
Owner/Manager

Don-Lyn Florist

4348 Hwy 19
Zachary, LA 70791
225.654.4551
www.don-lynflorist.com

“My little summer time job turned into my lifetime career.” – Trina Prejean

Since 1997, Trina Prejean, a licensed horticulturist, has been the owner and manager for Don-Lyn Florist and gift shop in Zachary, Louisiana. During the summer before her senior year of high school, at the age of 16, Prejean began working for her mentor Earline Durio at The Greenery, a florist shop in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Little did she know that her experience there would lead to her success 26 years later.

Providing beautiful floral arrangements for weddings, funerals, holidays, and other occasions such as the Zachary and Pride-Chaneyville Branch Library grand openings, Don-Lyn Florist has been a thriving business in the Zachary area. “Zachary’s growth is booming! The new library branches that have opened in the Zachary and Pride-Chaneyville are wonderful and I am so excited for our community.”

Prejean is an active member of the Zachary Chamber of Commerce. She keeps up-to-date in the business world by reading Florist Review, Flowers&, and The Florist Magazine, all of which offer the latest tips on merchandise, decorating work/show rooms, and care of flowers. The magazines also provide lists of new vendors and companies with available products.

During her leisure time, Prejean enjoys reading the works of Jeffery Deaver and Nicholas Sparks. Although two totally different genres, Prejean finds an interest and a balance in each of these authors.

Business Person of the Month Archive

The Household Products Database

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Other Multi-Syllable Mysteries in Your Toothpaste

We have all noticed those difficult-to-pronounce ingredients listed on most, if not all, of our common household product labels. Many of us have even gone to great lengths to mine authoritative information online regarding chemical ingredients only to retrieve hundreds of thousands of hits oriented towards either marketing or urban legend.

So, next time you dare to perform a Google search on “Carbomer 956″, a substance commonly found in tootpaste, think Household Products Database insead. Here’s an example of how it works.

1. Go to the Household Products Database website at the URL listed above.
2. Assume you are investigating ingredients found in different brands of toothpaste.
3. Click on the “Products” tab at the top.
4. Click “Search” on the submenu of  the products tab.
5. Click the second radio button to search as “Type of Product“.
6. Type the word “Toothpaste” in the empty textbox.
7. Highlight “Personal Care/Use” on the dropdown menu.
8. Click the “Search” button.
9. Search results will display listing brands included in this database.
10. Click Aquafresh All Tartar Control Toothpaste, at the top of the list.
11. Notice you have retrieved information about the brand, manufacturer, health effects, handling/disposal, plus a complete ingredients list on the product label.
12. Scroll down the table to the “Ingredients” list.
13. Click “Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)“.
14. Notice you have retrieved information about SLS as well as a list of other brands containing SLS.
15. You’ll want to mouse-over the content in these table to discover links to further information; the hyperlinks are not obviously color-coded or underlined.

Perform similar searches under Ingredient to discover which products contain them.

Household Products Database

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov

What’s under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Search the Household Products Database to find out about the chemicals you handle every day. This easy-to-use database provides health and safety information on commonly used household products — like Comet!.

It will tell you how to store products, how to use them safely, what to do if things go wrong, and who to contact. Feel safer in your home — check out the Household Products Database!

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