Mon 31 Aug 2009
Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following databases: FAITS, and SMP.
The first of two database trials being offered by Faulkner Information Services is FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies). FAITS reports are designed to help students, instructors, and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, emerging trends, products, services, and vendors driving the IT industry. Topical coverage areas include IT infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless technology, data networking, convergence, security, enterprise systems, the internet, and technology vendors.
The second Faulkner database is SMP (Security Management Practices), in which new reports are available every month covering facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, biometrics, risk and crisis management, public safety, personnel security, and security technology. Also included is CSO Digest, a weekly electronic news digest summarizing all of the major security industry news, events, and happenings.
To access the two Faulkner databases, click here. If you are off campus, make sure you log on to the Library’s web site first. These databases will be available through September 25, 2009.
Mon 31 Aug 2009
Over the next month, the USF Libraries has been given trial access to the following database: Mergent InvestorEdge.
Mergent InvestorEdge provides access to the financial documents and information you need for each individual company for comprehensive investment research. Key features include:
Over 4,000 equity research reports, updated weekly, providing expert analysis and buy, sell, hold recommendations from Ford Equity Research.
Industry reports with sector level analysis covering current environment, industry profiles, performance, market trends, outlook and more.
Annual reports covering the past 10 years with over 300,000 company and financial documents in the database.
To access InvestorEdge, click here. If you are off campus, make sure you log on to the Library’s web site first. This database will be available through September 30, 2009. Your feedback is welcome.
Sun 30 Aug 2009
Due to a server crash Saturday afternoon, the USF Libraries is now using a backup catalog. You can still search the catalog, but cannot put holds or renew items. Item status is also unavailable.
We will let you know when the main catalog is back on. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: all functions are now back in working order
Fri 28 Aug 2009
There is a job opening at the USF Polytechnic Library for a FWS student to man the circulation desk during the weekdays. We’re looking for someone with a good service attitude!
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Thu 27 Aug 2009
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours from 2:30 PM to 10:00 PM, Saturday, August 29th.
ScienceDirect is the full text database for the Elsevier journals the USF Libraries subscribe to, in multiple disciplines.
Mon 24 Aug 2009
It’s official! People are now sending more text messages than they are making cell phone calls. Librarians are aware of the popularity of texting and are ready to take their professional services to cell phones.
Starting now, patrons of approximately 50 librariesfrom all over the US - including USF - will be able to text a question to (309) 222-7740 and a real, live librarian will respond within minutes. The service is free of charge, but standard text messaging rates do apply. Staffed by librarians from around the country, answers are sent to cell phones by librarians in 320 characters or less, or the equivalent of two 160-character text messages. To get more details, as well as hours and participating libraries, check out the My Info Quest page at http://www.myinfoquest.info/
More information about My Info Quest
It’s a different way of helping people get the answers they need, wherever they are at the time, with professional assistance. The service, named My Info Quest is the first collaborative text messaging reference service of its kind. Alliance Library System (http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com) in East Peoria, Illinois has partnered with participating libraries, Altarama (http://www.altarama.com) and Peoplewhere (http://www.peoplewhere.com) to build this exciting new reference service. The pilot program will extend until December 31, 2009. Other partners include San Jose State University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, South Central Regional Library Council in New York, and TAP Information Services.
Fri 21 Aug 2009
Hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes are available at the LTB 1115 front desk for your usage, in order to help preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus this Fall semester. You are welcome to use them to clean the computer mouse, keyboards and office tools like the stapler and paper punch before you use them. We will regularly clean the desks, tables and doorknobs.
We encourage you to follow the usual precautions as well: wash hands, cough/sneeze into your arm (not your hands), stay home if sick, etc.
Please see the USF H1N1 Information and Resources page for more information and more tips on illness prevention.
Mon 17 Aug 2009
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Just a reminder, textbooks ordered online at the USF Bookstore are to be picked up in LAC 1275 (second floor of the LAC building, facing the parking lots).
Pick up hours are 8AM to 6PM until Friday, August 21st and 8AM to 8PM next week. For more information, call 863-667-7842.
Tue 4 Aug 2009
Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of July. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area and can be checked out; the new reference titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.
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Reference
- Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James L. Harner. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
Reference PR83 .H34 2008
- The Book of the States. Lexington, Ky. [etc.] Council of State Governments.
Reference JK2403 .B6 2009
Books
- The bounds of reason : game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences / Herbert Gintis. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
HB144 .G55 2009
- Be the solution : how entrepreneurs and conscious capitalists can solve all the world’s problems / Michael Strong ; foreword by John Mackey. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.
HB615 .S773 2009
- Leading IT projects : the IT manager’s guide / Jessica Keyes. Boca Raton : CRC Press c2009.
HD69.P75 K512 2009
- Globalization n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job / Bruce C. Greenwald and Judd Kahn. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
HF1379 .G744 2009
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Credit risk modeling using Excel and VBA / Gunter Loffler, Peter N. Posch. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2007.
HG3751 .L64 2007
- Nowtopia : how pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists, and vacant-lot gardeners are inventing the future today / by Chris Carlsson. Edinburgh : Oakland : AK Press, 2008.
HN25 .C365 2008
- Software engineering : effective teaching and learning approaches and practices / [edited by] Heidi J.C. Ellis, Steven A. Demurjian, J. Fernando Naveda. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009
QA76.758 .S646254 2009
- Quantum computing for computer scientists / Noson S. Yanofsky and Mirco A. Mannucci. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
QA76.889 .Y35 2008
- Inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Akron, OH : National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation
T39 .N37 2008
- Managing risk : the human element / by Romney B. Duffey, John W. Saull. Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2008.
T55 .D816 2008
Databases
Mon 3 Aug 2009
The USF Poly Library will be open during the following hours starting Saturday, August 8:
- Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Saturday: closed
- Sunday: closed
Regular opening hours will resume Monday, August 24 at 8:00 AM. This schedule also applies to the Open Use Computer Lab.