resources for future (and current) teachers

Looking for projects and activities to help science come alive for your elementary students? Interested in techniques to teach art to middle schoolers? Or, maybe you need to find different ways of teaching concepts in math. Then, the Educational Curriculum Materials collection in the library is the place for you!

Located on the main level of the library on the northern wing (near Elizabeth Avenue), this collection contains materials useful to teachers of all levels and subjects. The collection is searchable in our catalog, too! One useful to way to see what we have on a given subject is to do a subject keyword search for your topic and add “study and teaching” to it (i.e., art study and teaching). Those results located in the Ed Curr Material Main Level North (rather than Book Stacks) are the ones identified as teaching materials. And, yes, they can be checked out.

while supplies last, free t-shirt!

To celebrate the freedom of access to information and the upcoming Halloween holiday (a strange combination, I know!), we are giving away free T-shirts this week! You can get your Banned Books t-shirt with a Halloween theme at the Periodicals Desk on the lower level.

But, hurry, offer only good while supplies last!  Get yours today.

seen any good movies lately?

Do you want to search our collection of videos but don’t know where to start?

Believe it or not, you can actually use the catalog. It might be imprinted on your mind that the catalog is for book searching only, but it’s also the best way to search through our video collection.

Have a particular video in mind? Try a title search. While most of our videos are primarily intended for educational purposes, there are a few here and there that people would want to watch for fun, too. (Honest!)

If you don’t have one in particular in mind, try browsing the collection using a general keyword search for videorecording and/or a subject keyword search for videocassettes.

new best sellers

Looking for a little escape? Want to check out of reality and real life for a while? Keep sane – get lost in a book. Check out the latest batch of best sellers, available now.

To view all the best sellers we’ve received so far this semester, click on the Just in! New Best Sellers link on the blog’s side bar.

sliding down a slippery slope?

. . . and still feeling stuck?

Have you spent way too long looking for sources for your research project and feel like you’re still not finding what you need? Could you use a helping hand to find better sources?