EDU 215: Observations in Education K-12
Spring Semester, 2008
Library Resources
Selected WWC Books – electronic, circulating, and reference titles; find others in the 370's.
Our Library Catalog – holdings for Warren Wilson and other libraries in the ACA Shared Catalog.
NetLibrary and other WWC E-Books
– online collections include over 50,000
electronic titles.
WorldCat –
materials in libraries worldwide, often available
through interlibrary loan requests.
Big
Full-Text interdisciplinary databases include over 10,000 journal titles:
Academic Search
Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library
Specialized, subject databases for Education and Social Sciences:
ERIC (Educational
Resources Information Center) – comprehensive index with abstracts of journal articles (EJ#s) and report literature documents (ED#s) plus some full-text links. ERIC Digests, provide full-text summaries on current education issues.
Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors contains useful subject headings.
CQ Researcher – full-text coverage for current and controversial issues includes pros and cons.
PsycInfo – comprehensive psychology database includes resources related to education.
Social Sciences Package(CSA) – database group searchable by group or by individual titles such as
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts,
Physical Education Index, or
Sociological Abstracts.
WWC Periodical Holdings
(aka Journal Finder) – check a journal title to find out if a specific article from the journal is available in the library's collection that now includes over 17,000 journal titles.
Get Materials from Other Libraries:
Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) – online request forms to
order journal articles and books from other libraries that are not available in our library, but remember to allow time for delivery.
Borrow books from UNC-A (WNCLN) and MCLN with Cooperative Borrower cards at the Reference Desk.
Borrow books from ABLS (Asheville-Buncombe Library System) with cards available at the public libraries.
Find Web Sites:
Selected Web Sites – for your class.
Web
Resources – arranged by subjects
such as Education or Federal, State, & Local Info.
Searching
the Internet – find your own web sites with Google and other search engines.
Find Library Research Information:
Painless
Library Research – reminder on using library resources including
Landmarks Citation Machine for documenting sources in APA style.
Evaluate
your library session.
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