EDU 302: Education Policy and Classroom Practice
Spring Semester, 2008
Library Resources
 Selected WWC Books – electronic, circulating, and reference titles.
Our Library Catalog – includes holdings of Warren Wilson and other libraries in the Appalachian College Association 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 with access to over 10,000 journal titles:
Academic Search Premier
Ethnic News Watch
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library
Specialized, subject databases for Education and Social Sciences:
CQ Researcher – full-text coverage for current and controversial issues includes pros and cons.
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.
The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors provides controlled vocabulary.
PsycInfo – comprehensive psychology database also includes resources related to education.
Social Sciences Package(CSA) – includes
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, ERIC,
Physical Education Index,
Sociological Abstracts, and other databases searchable by title or by group.
WWC Periodical Holdings
(aka Journal Finder) – contains over 17,00 journal titles with dates and formats (paper, online, and microform) to check if a specific journal article is available in our library's collection.
Get Materials from Other Libraries:
Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) – online request forms to
order journal articles and books from MCLN and other libraries that are not available in our library, but remember to allow time for delivery.
Cooperative Borrower cards (from the Reference Desk) – borrow books yourself from UNC-A and MCLN.
Public library cards ABLS (Asheville-Buncombe Library System) public libraries – borrow books yourself.
Find Web Sites:
Selected Web Sites – for your class.
Web
Resources – arranged by subjects
such as Education, Sociology, 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 the
Landmarks Citation Machine.
Evaluate
your library session.
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