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February 9, 2009
We recently added Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies to our growing list of electronic resources that are available to all Edgewood students, faculty and staff.
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
- Technology vendors
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies also features convenient links to several online technology and business news resources, direct links to a wealth of bibliographic resources are included, as well as tutorials on industry best practices and standards, programming techniques, and more.
How to access and use FAITS
You will find links to Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies on the library's Computer Science Resources page and our list of Databases by Title.
Browse the database by subject area, report type, or quickly search the entire library by keyword. Here are just a few ways students, instructors and administrators can use FAITS:
Students
- Prepare for exams, oral presentations, and in-class discussions.
- Organize research and prepare content-rich term papers.
- Learn about emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.
- Get to know the leading players in the IT industry and prepare for intern and post-graduation employment interviews.
Instructors
- Enrich curriculum and text support materials.
- Develop ideas for new courses, including evening adult education programs.
- Organize classroom discussion around pertinent FAITS reports.
- Use FAITS reports as source material when writing journal and newspaper articles, books, and public presentations.
Administrators
- Keep in front of emerging technologies and understand how these technologies can play a key role in helping improve administrative and operational performance.
- Discover ways technology can help contain essential, but costly and escalating, IT expenditures.
- Become technology savvy and communicate more effectively with students, technology department heads, instructors, IT personnel, and administrative staff.
For Off Campus Users
Having problems logging on from off campus? See our connecting from off campus page.
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