SELECTED RESOURCES
for
EDUC 505—Current Issues in Literacy Education
PLU LIBRARY  August 14, 2002
Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog, provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Some topics that might be of interest:
 

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:

Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1939+; ref HQ750.A1.C47) Abstracts from professional periodicals and book reviews related to the growth and development of children.

EBSCOhost (via PLU Library Homepage)  An abstracting and indexing tool that also provides some full-text articles.

Education Index  (1929-1997; ref Z5813.E23 and via PLU Library Homepage) Indexes selected scholarly/professional journals covering most areas of education, including methods and problems, as well as broader societal conditions that effect education.

ERIC (via EBSCOhost) A combination of two print sources: Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education.  ERIC provides indexing for scholarly and professional journals plus ERIC documents.  ERIC documents include research, project and technical reports, curriculum guides, and more.  PLU has a comprehensive collection of ERIC microfiche beginning with 1991 and selected fiche for earlier years.

E*Subscribe (via PLU Library Website) Offers ERIC documents in full text (. pdf file format) from 1996 to the present. Use the Express Search option to search by known ED (ERIC document) number. When searching for information on education and related topics in journals and documents, search ERIC (see listing above) and follow the links to EDRS (E*Subscribe) for the full text.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password

Psychological Abstracts (via the PLU Library Homepage) A comprehensive abstracting publication covering professional or scholarly journals in all areas of psychology and related fields including educational psychology, counseling, etc.

Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (ref Z695.1.E3.T49 1995) A guide to the subject headings (descriptors) used in ERIC.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress  classification system.  Use Journals at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of  journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in  the main collection on the second and third floors. Journals at PLU also gives you access to the full-text journals we have online.

 

OTHER USEFUL SOURCES:

Dictionary Of Media Literacy (ref.P91.3.S527 1997)
An alphabetical list of people, concepts, and organizations that are involved with media literacy.

Dissertation Abstracts International (via PLU Library Homepage)
Compilation of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted by over 450 cooperating universities in the U.S. and Canada.

Education : a Guide To Reference And Information Sources (ref. LB15.O57x 2000)
Gives you names of sources for doing research in education.

Encyclopedia of American Education (ref.LB17.U54 1996)
A four-volume set containing short articles on a variety of educational topics.

Encyclopedia Of Educational Research (ref.LB15.E48 1992)
Critical interpretations of reported research on most aspects of education, each with an extensive bibliography. Updated annually by Review of Educational Research (L11.R35)

Encyclopedia Of Language And Education (ref.P40.8.L37 1997)
An 8-volume set containing essays on myriad topics within the field of language and education.

Fostering Information Literacy : Connecting National Standards, Goals 2000, And The SCANS Report (ref.ZA3075.T47 2000)
Discusses the definition of information literacy and how to foster it in schools.

International Encyclopedia Of Education (ref.LB15.I569 1994)
A multi-volume set containing lengthy articles on all aspects of education

Literacy Dictionary : The Vocabulary Of Reading And Writing (ref.LB1049.98.L58 1995)
Defines terms in the field of literacy.
 

INTERNET

General Education Sites

Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/)
Educator’s Toolbox (http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/)
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/)
U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov)
 

Literacy Sites

Webbing into Literacy:  (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html)
Literacy and Education: (http://eserver.org/literacy/)
National Center  for the Study of Writing and Literacy:
    (http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/NCSWL/csw.homepage.html)
International Reading Association: (http://www.reading.org/)
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement: (http://www.ciera.org/index.html)
The National Council of Teachers of English: (http://ncte.org/)
Literacy Servers Around The Nation (http://www.ri.net/RILRC/servers.html)
National Institute for Literacy(http://novel.nifl.gov/)
National Literacy Trust (http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/)
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

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