USF Lakeland Library Services

This trial provides access to two electronic resources: FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies) and SMP (Security Management Practices). FAITS is an information technology reference library with reports 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. SMP provides access to monthly reports 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.

This trial will end on June 16, 2008.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin. You will also find this database listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.

We are announcing trial access to Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. This trial ends May 15, 2008.

Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies covers domestic private and public companies. Up to twenty items of information are provided for each company listed. Includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails, and URLs, total assets, operating revenue, employee figures, hard-to-find data such as sales, metropolitan statistical area, exchange, and up to five names and titles of executive officers. Four-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and the newer five- and six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes are given. Up to 200 records can be exported. To search the Ward’s Business Directory exclusively, click on the Advanced Search tab and select Ward’s from the drop down box.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/ . Click on “Search the databases” to begin. You may also find these databases listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.

The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides more than 315,000 reviews of children’s books. All are full text searchable from 37 review sources.

CLCD is an independent review source with reviewers that include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, and children’s literature specialists. Children’s Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Each month Children’s Literature features interviews with children’s book authors and illustrators, and several sets of themed reviews which are archived for continued reference. There are links to author illustrator sites, publishers, kids, parent and teacher resources, children’s literature collections, and upcoming events relating to children’s literature.

This trial ends 4/30/08.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/. Click on “Search the databases” to search by name. You may also find this database listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.

For about the next three weeks, we are conducting a trial of a collection of engineering e-books called CRCnetBASE. These are the electronic version of books published by the CRC Press and Taylor & Francis.

This collection is actually composed of different subsets: CivilEngineeringnetBASE, ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE. The whole collection can be acquired, individual subsets or individual titles.

Please check out the collection and let us know your opinion using this form.