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This e-resource includes billions of historical documents from 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes, and additional resources that span five centuries.

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Read award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles in this unique e-book collection that explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers expand their worlds.

Below is a sampling of e-book titles available to you. Be on the lookout for more recommendations by subject coming to you next month!

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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Learning DevOps: A Comprehensive Guide to Accelerating DevOps Culture Adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins by Mikael Krief

In the implementation of DevOps processes, the choice of tools is crucial to the sustainability of projects and collaboration between developers and ops. This book presents the different patterns and tools for provisioning and configuring an infrastructure in the cloud, covering mostly open-source tools with a large community contribution, such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer, which are assets for automation. This DevOps book will show you how to containerize your applications with Docker and Kubernetes and walk you through the construction of DevOps pipelines in Jenkins as well as Azure pipelines before covering the tools and importance of testing. This book is for you if you are an application developer or a system administrator interested in understanding continuous integration, continuous delivery, and containerization with DevOps tools and techniques.

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Introduction to Blender 3.0: Learn Organic and Architectural Modeling, Lighting, Materials, Painting, Rendering, and Compositing with Blender by Gianpiero Moioli 

Master the basics of 3D modeling for art, architecture, and design by exploring Blender 3.0. This book explains modeling, materials, lighting, painting, and more with Blender and other external tools. You will configure a 3D architectural environment and set up the workflow of an art and design project within Blender. You will use Blender's main tools—mesh modeling and sculpting—to create virtual objects and environments. And, you will explore building materials and light scenes, followed by drawing and virtual painting. This book is for artists, designers, architects, and animation artists who want to learn Blender by tackling the challenges of building high-end computer graphics, art, design, and architecture. This book is ideal for readers with no experience with Blender as it starts with the basics and covers techniques to produce objects, materials, and environments.

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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide: Create Reusable Architecture and Governance to Support Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 by Patrick Tucker

A handbook with proven recommendations and design considerations for creating elegant SharePoint solutions and integrating with other collaboration tools to build value for your organization. Readers will learn how to structure sites, pages, and data with effective metadata. Readers will understand the modernization of SharePoint over time, discover ways to leverage its out-of-the-box features, and fit all the pieces together across cloud tools like Teams, OneDrive, Planner, and Forms. This book is for any I.T. professional looking for an all-encompassing view of the collaboration tools in Microsoft 365 to plan for successful SharePoint adoption. This book will benefit long-time SharePoint on-premises administrators making a leap to the cloud, as well as IT architects with experience in other areas who've never worked with SharePoint.

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POWER Library News January 2024 Supplement