The project for this section was to create a core collection of both print and electronic books to support new courses in computer game development and graphics in support of the Computer Science department. I selected the eighty-seven electronic book titles in the Safari List using the Safari ebook collection management interface with a total equivalent expenditure of $3808.99. I also selected the fifty-six titles in print listed in the Blackwell List using the Blackwell collection management online tools. with and estimated total expenditure of $3241.02.
Safari List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| 3D Game Programming All in One, Second Edition | Kenneth C Finney. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00155 | $54.99 |
| 3D Game Programming for Teens | Eric D. Grebler. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00208 | $29.99 |
| 3D Programming for Windows®: Three-Dimensional Graphics Programming for the Windows Presentation Foundation | Charles Petzold. | Microsoft Press | 9780735623941 | $39.99 |
| 3ds Max Animation with Biped | Michele Bousquet. Michael McCarthy. | New Riders | 321375726 | $49.99 |
| 3ds Max® 8 FundaMentals | Ted Boardman. | New Riders | 321412532 | $45.00 |
| ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University | Gary Rosenzweig. | Que | 9780789737021 | $49.99 |
| Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques | David Karlins. | Adobe Press | 9780321618207 | $24.99 |
| Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 on Demand | Steve Johnson – Perspection, Inc.. | Que | 9780768687934 | $29.99 |
| Advanced 2D Game Development | Jonathan S. Harbour | Course Technology PTR | 9781598633429 | $49.99 |
| Advanced 3D Game Programming All in One | Kenneth C. Finney. | Course Technology | 1592007333 | $59.99 |
| AI for Game Developers | David M. Bourg. Glenn Seemann. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 596005555 | $39.95 |
| AI Game Development: Synthetic Creatures with Learning and Reactive Behaviors | Alex J. Champandard. | New Riders | 1-5927-3004-3 | $49.99 |
| AI Techniques for Game Programming | Mat Buckland. | Premier Press | 193184198X | $59.99 |
| Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design | Brendan Dawes. | New Riders | 321429168 | $39.99 |
| Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design | Andrew Rollings. Ernest Adams. | New Riders | 1-592-73001-9 | $54.99 |
| Awesome Game Creation: No Programming Required, Third Edition | Jason Darby. | Course Technology PTR | 9781584505341 | $49.99 |
| Beginning Game Art in 3ds Max® 8 | Les Pardew. Dan Whittington. | Course Technology PTR | 9781592009084 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Game Graphics | Harry J. Evry. | Course Technology | 159200430X | $29.99 |
| Beginning Game Level Design | John Feil. Marc Scattergood. | Course Technology | 1592004342 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Game Programming | Michael Morrison. | Sams | 672326590 | $39.99 |
| Beginning Game Programming with Flash® | Hamsa Suri. Lakshmi Prayaga. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598633986 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Game Programming, Second Edition | Jonathan S. Harbour. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598632880 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Illustration and Storyboarding for Games | Les Pardew. | Course Technology | 1592004954 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Java™ Game Programming, Second Edition | Jonathan S. Harbour. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598634761 | $29.99 |
| Beginning Math and Physics for Game Programmers | Wendy Stahler. | New Riders | 735713901 | $45.00 |
| Beginning Math Concepts for Game Developers | Ph.D., John P Flynt. Boris Meltreger. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598632903 | $29.99 |
| Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery: Create photorealistic 3D architectural visualizations of buildings, interiors, and environmental scenery | Allan Brito. | Packt Publishing | 9781847193674 | $44.99 |
| C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition | Jasmin Blanchette. Mark Summerfield. | Prentice Hall | 9780137143979 | $59.99 |
| Creating Game Art for 3D Engines | Brad Strong. | Course Technology PTR | 9781584505488 | $49.99 |
| Cross-Platform Game Programming | Steven Goodwin. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00131 | $49.95 |
| Darkstar: The Java Game Server | Brendan Burns. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596514846 | $9.99 |
| Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software | Ph.D. Steven C. Seow. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321562944 | $39.99 |
| Designing Gestural Interfaces, 1st Edition | Dan Saffer. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596156756 | $49.99 |
| Designing Interfaces | Jenifer Tidwell. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 596008031 | $49.95 |
| Developing Online Games: An Insider’s Guide | Jessica Mulligan. Bridgette Patrovsky. | New Riders | 1-5927-3000-0 | $49.99 |
| Developing Serious Games | Bryan Bergeron. | Course Technology PTR | 9781584504443 | $44.95 |
| Digital Character Animation 3 | George Maestri. | New Riders | 321376005 | $50.00 |
| Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop® CS3 | Don Seegmiller. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00195 | $49.99 |
| Digital Lighting & Rendering, Second Edition | Jeremy Birn. | New Riders | 321316312 | $55.00 |
| Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel® Painter™ X | Rhoda Grossman. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598634044 | $34.99 |
| Emergence in Games | Penny Sweetser. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00114 | $49.99 |
| Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems | Greg Hoglund. Gary McGraw. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780132271912 | $44.99 |
| Flash CS4 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide | Russell Chun. | Peachpit Press | 9780321610508 | $39.99 |
| Flash CS4: The Missing Manual | Chris Grover. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596156770 | $39.99 |
| Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! | Keith Peters. | Apress | 9781590597910 | $39.99 |
| Game Character Animation All in One | Les Pardew. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00209 | $49.99 |
| Game Character Design Complete: Using 3ds Max® 8 and Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 | David Franson. Eric Thomas. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598632705 | $39.99 |
| Game Character Development | Antony S Ward. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598634655 | $44.99 |
| Game Creation for Teens | Jason Darby. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00153 | $29.99 |
| Game Programming for Teens, Second Edition | Maneesh Sethi. | Course Technology | 1592008348 | $29.99 |
| Game Scripting Mastery | Alex Varanese. | Premier Press | 1931841578 | $59.99 |
| Game Testing All in One | Charles P. Schultz. Robert Bryant. Ph.D. Tim Langdell,. | Course Technology | 1592003737 | $49.99 |
| Gaming Hacks | Simon Carless. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 596007140 | $24.95 |
| Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists | Joseph Nalven. JD Jarvis. | Course Technology | 1592009182 | $39.99 |
| GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation | Matt Pharr. Randima Fernando. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321545411 | $69.99 |
| GPU Gems 3 | Hubert Nguyen. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321545428 | $69.99 |
| GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics | Randima Fernando. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321545404 | $69.99 |
| Illustrator CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide | Elaine Weinmann. Peter Lourekas. | Peachpit Press | 9780321549969 | $29.99 |
| Information Dashboard Design, 1st Edition | Stephen Few. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 596100167 | $34.99 |
| Inside LightWave v9 | Dan Ablan. | New Riders | 9780321426840 | $59.99 |
| Introducing 3ds Max® 2008 | Dariush Derakhshani; Randi L. Munn | John Wiley & Sons | 470184949 | |
| iPhone SDK Application Development, 1st Edition | Jonathan Zdziarski. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596156282 | $34.99 |
| Learning XNA 3.0, 1st Edition | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596154905 | $34.99 | |
| Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art | Les Pardew. Don Seegmiller. | Course Technology | 1592005616 | $39.99 |
| Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide | Morgan Robinson. Nathaniel Stein. | Peachpit Press | 9780321476753 | $34.99 |
| Maya® Feature Creature Creations, Second Edition | Todd Palamar. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00178 | $49.99 |
| MEL Scripting a Character Rig in Maya | Chris Maraffi. | New Riders | 9780321604125 | $50.00 |
| Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out | Mark H. Walker. | Microsoft Press | 9780735623293 | $44.99 |
| Microsoft® Visual Basic® Game Programming for Teens, Second Edition | Jonathan S. Harbour. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598633900 | $29.99 |
| Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio Unleashed | Chad Carter. | Sams | 9780768688900 | $49.99 |
| OpenGL® Distilled | Paul Martz. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 321336798 | $34.99 |
| OpenGL® ES 2.0 Programming Guide | Aaftab Munshi. Dan Ginsburg. Dave Shreiner. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321563835 | $54.99 |
| OpenGL® Programming on Mac OS® X: Architecture, Performance, and Integration | Robert P. Kuehne. J. D. Sullivan. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321356529 | $49.99 |
| OpenGL® Shading Language, Second Edition | Randi J. Rost. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 321334892 | $64.99 |
| OpenGL® SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Fourth Edition | Richard S. Wright Jr.. Benjamin Lipchak. Nicholas Haemel. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321498823 | $59.99 |
| Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual | Lesa Snider King. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596156794 | $49.99 |
| Programming the Cell Processor: For Games, Graphics, and Computation | Matthew Scarpino. | Prentice Hall | 9780137156115 | $69.99 |
| PSP Hacks | C.K. Sample III. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 596101430 | $29.99 |
| Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform | David Michael. Sande Chen. | Course Technology | 1592006221 | $34.99 |
| The Animator’s Reference Book | Les Pardew. Ross S. Wolfley. | Course Technology | 1592006752 | $39.99 |
| The Cg Tutorial: The Definitive Guide to Programmable Real-Time Graphics | Randima Fernando. Mark J. Kilgard. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9.78032E+12 | $54.99 |
| The Creative Digital Darkroom | Katrin Eismann. Sean Duggan. | O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 9780596100476 | $49.99 |
| The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners | Jacob Habgood. Mark Overmars. | Apress | 9781590596159 | $39.99 |
| The Official: Luxology® Modo® Guide, Version 301 | Daniel M. Ablan. | Course Technology PTR | 30000LTI00179 | $49.99 |
| User Interface Design for Mere Mortals® | Eric Butow. | Addison-Wesley Professional | 9780321447739 | $49.99 |
| Video Game Design Revealed | Guy W. Lecky-Thompson. | Course Technology PTR | 9781584505624 | $39.99 |
| XNA™ Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows® and the Xbox 360™ | Joseph B Hall. | Course Technology PTR | 9781598633689 | $49.99 |
Blackwell List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| 3D game environments : create professional 3D game worlds | Ahearn, Luke. | Focal Press | 240808959 | 49.95 |
| 3D game programming : using DirectX 10 and OpenGL | Rautenbach, Pierre. | Cengage Learning | 1844808777 | 61.95 |
| 3ds Max modeling : bots, mechs, and droids | Weimer, Jon. | Wordware Publishing | 1598220446 | 44.95 |
| A commands guide for SolidWorks 2009 | Planchard, David. | Delmar Learning | 1435480732 | 69.95 |
| A modern approach to intelligent animation : theory and practice | Zhuang, Yueting. | Springer Verlag | 3540737596 | 119 |
| Action! : acting lessons for CG animators | Kundert-Gibbs, John L. | Sybex Inc | 470227435 | 39.99 |
| An introduction to computer graphics and creative 3-D environments | Blundell, Barry. | Springer Verlag | 1848000413 | 69.95 |
| Beyond game design : nine steps towards creating better videogames | Bateman, Chris | Charles River Media | 1584506717 | 39.99 |
| Body language : advanced 3D character rigging | Allen, Eric M. | Wiley Publishing Inc | 470173874 | 49.99 |
| Challenges for game designers | Brathwaite, Brenda. | Charles River Media | 158450580X | 24.99 |
| Cinematic game secrets for creative directors and producers : inspired techniques from industry legends | Newman, Rich. | Focal Press | 240810716 | 39.95 |
| Color correction for video : using desktop tools to perfect your image | Hullfish, Steve. | Focal Press | 240810783 | 49.95 |
| Compositing visual effects : essentials for the aspiring artist | Wright, Steve. | Focal Press | 240809637 | 34.95 |
| Computer facial animation | Parke, Frederic I. | A K Peters Ltd | 1568814488 | 79 |
| Computer graphics for artists : an introduction | Paquette, Andrew. | Springer Verlag | 1848001401 | 59.95 |
| Cross platform game development | Thorn, Alan. | Wordware Publishing | 159822056X | 44.95 |
| Data-driven 3D facial animation | Deng, Zhigang | Springer-Verlag London Ltd. | 1846289068 | 99 |
| Digital art masters | Focal Press | 240521196 | 39.95 | |
| Digital character development : theory and practice | O’Neill, Rob. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 123725615 | 69.95 |
| Digital modeling of material appearance | Dorsey, J. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 122211812 | 69.95 |
| Digital storytelling : a creator’s guide to interactive entertainment | Miller, Carolyn Handler. | Focal Press | 240809599 | 39.95 |
| Essential CG lighting techniques with 3ds Max | Brooker, Darren. | Focal Press | 024052117X | 49.95 |
| Essentials of interactive computer graphics : concepts and implementation | Sung, Kelvin. | A K Peters Ltd | 1568812574 | 84 |
| Game art complete : all-in-one : learn Maya, 3ds Max, zBrush, and Photoshop winning techniques | Gahan, Andrew | Focal Press | 024081147X | 69.95 |
| Game design workshop : a playcentric approach to creating innovative games | Fullerton, Tracy. | Focal Press | 240809742 | 44.95 |
| Game development essentials : game audio development | Marks, Aaron. | Delmar Learning | 1428318062 | 57.95 |
| Game development essentials : game level design. | Castillo, Travis. | Delmar Learning | 1401878644 | 51.95 |
| Game development essentials : gameplay mechanics | Novak, Jeannie. | Delmar Learning | 1418052698 | 57.95 |
| Game development essentials : online game development | Hall, Rick. | Delmar Learning | 1418052671 | 57.95 |
| Game feel : a game designer’s guide to virtual sensation | Swink, Steve. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 123743281 | 44.95 |
| Game graphics programming | Sherrod, Allen. | Charles River Media | 1584505168 | 64.99 |
| Game sound : an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of video game music and sound design | Collins, Karen. | MIT Press | 026203378X | 28 |
| Game usability : advice from experts for advancing the player experience | Isbister, Katherine. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 123744474 | 44.95 |
| GPU-based techniques for global illumination effects | Szirmay-Kalos, Laszlo. | Morgan and Claypool Publishers | 1598295594 | 50 |
| Interactive computer graphics : a top-down approach using OpenGL | Angel, Edward. | Addison Wesley Publishing Company | 321535863 | 121.8 |
| Introduction to 3D game programming with DirectX 10 | Luna, Frank D. | Wordware Publishing | 1598220535 | 49.95 |
| Introduction to computer graphics using Java 2D and 3D | Klawonn, Frank. | Springer-Verlag London Ltd. | 1846288479 | 39.95 |
| Learning XNA 3.0 | Reed, Aaron. | O’Reilly Media Inc | 596521952 | 34.99 |
| Motion graphic design : applied history and aesthetics | Krasner, Jon S. | Focal Press | 240809890 | 49.95 |
| Multiplayer gaming and engine coding for the Torque Game Engine | Maurina, Edward F. | A K Peters Ltd | 1568814224 | 64 |
| Poly-modeling with 3ds Max : thinking outside the box | Daniele, Todd. | Focal Press | 240810929 | 49.95 |
| Professional techniques for video game writing | Despain, Wendy. | A K Peters | 156881416X | 39 |
| Programming video games for the evil genius | Cinnamon, Ian. | McGraw Hill Companies | 71497528 | 24.95 |
| Quests : design, theory, and history in games and narratives | Howard, Jeff. | A K Peters Ltd | 1568813473 | 49 |
| Shader X6 : advanced rendering techniques | Engel, Wolfgang. | Charles River Media | 1584505443 | 59.99 |
| The art and science of digital compositing : techniques for visual effects, animation and motion graphics | Brinkmann, Ron. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 123706386 | 69.95 |
| The art and technique of digital color correction | Hullfish, Steve. | Focal Press | 240809904 | 49.95 |
| The art of game design : a book of lenses | Schell, Jesse. | Morgan Kaufmann Publications | 123694965 | 59.95 |
| The complete guide to game audio : for composers, musicians, sound designers, and game developers | Marks, Aaron. | Focal Press | 240810740 | 39.95 |
| The complete guide to torque X | Kanalakis, John. | A K Peters Ltd | 1568814216 | 59 |
| The game production handbook | Chandler, Heather Maxwell. | Jones & Bartlett Publishers | 1934015407 | 57.95 |
| The RenderMan shading language guide | Cortez, Rudy “Don”. | Course Technology | 1598632868 | 49.99 |
| The video game theory reader 2 | Perron, Bernard. | Routledge | 041596282X | 125 |
| Understanding video games : the essential introduction | Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon. | Routledge | 415977207 | 125 |
| Vector graphics and illustration : a master class in digital image-making | Harris, Jack. | Rotovision SA | 2888930110 | 30 |
| Videogame, player, text | Atkins, Barry. | Manchester University Press | 719074002 | 84.95 |