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EDU 302 Library SessionsFall, 2009 |
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Your assignment is to find sources to support a paper on your topic.
Background Reading
Reference Books
We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students. Ref KF 4150 .A7 R37 2003
Education and Sociology: an Encyclopedia. REF LC 189.95 .E38 2002
Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. Ref LC 1099.3 .H35 2004
Find more, similar books near the same call numbers in the library's reference collection.
Encyclopedias (online)
Encyclopedia of Education (2003)
Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology (2008)
Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (2009)
Credo's Social Sciences Encyclopedias (includes Education titles)
Find more online encyclopedias from the library home page, left menu box, under Quick Facts: Online Reference.
Finding Books
Use the main search box and the drop-down menu on the library home page to search our library or two much larger collections:
- Linfield College Libraries: Our library collections in McMinnville and Portland (1 day delivery for Portland items).
- Summit Libraries: Shared catalog of three dozen academic libraries in the NW (2 day delivery).
- Libraries Worldwide: Shared catalog of thousands of libraries around the world (Interlibrary Loan: may take longer than Summit)
more info
Finding Articles
The core periodical index for journals in the field of education is the ERIC database.
- ERIC is an acryonym for the Educational Resources Information Center, which is a project of the U.S. Dept. of Education. The database was founded in 1966. It indexes three basic types of sources:
- Articles from periodicals (magazines and journals) in the field of Education
- Descriptions of books and book chapters of interest to students of Education
- Documents collected by the ERIC project coordinators from many sources, including school district publications, unpublished masters thesis projects, the text of presentations given by students or faculty at conferences, and so on. Many of these documents are valuable for various purposes, but they have not been edited or peer-reviewed as rigorously as articles from periodicals or some book chapters.
- It is possible to limit your ERIC search to find only peer-reviewed articles.
Click here to connect to the library's subscription to ERIC
The library's subscription comes from EBSCOhost. The information is identical to that provided by the U.S. Dept. of Education at their version of ERIC, but the library's full text articles are more smoothly linked via the EBSCOhost version, which is one of the reasons we subscribe even though the government's version is free. The EBSCOhost version also provides more limiters for tailoring a search.
After you graduate you will still be able to access the government's site for free, so it is important to know that a version of this resource is also available there.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
CITE YOUR SOURCES
Use APA style. If you have a copy of the EasyWriter Handbook (required for many IQS classes) there is a section that explains and outlines APA style. The pertinent sections of the EasyWriter are ONLINE as well. At their site, look under DOCUMENTING SOURCES then APA then APA Style: List of References.
http://bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter
You can also generate APA style citations from within databases, such as those from EBSCO or other vendors and from SUMMIT.
Always check computer generated citations for accuracy before submitting them to your professor.
Basic APA format for a book is as follows:
Banks, J. A. (2006). Race, culture, and education: The selected works of James A. Banks.
London: Routledge.
Basic format for an online journal article from ERIC is as follows. If you read your article from a print version of a journal, the format is similar but stop after the period following the page numbers because you won't need to refer to a web site.
Stegelin, D. A. (2005). Making the case for play policy: Research-based reasons to support
play-based environments. Young Children, 60, 76-85. Retrieved October 7, 2008,from ERIC database (EJ751332).
For variations and more detail, see the a the APA Publication Manual . A copy is available in the library's reference section at call numbers BF76.7.P83 2001 (5th Ed.) and BF 76.7.P83 2010 (6th Ed.). Be sure to use the edition your professor specifies.
Please contact me by phone or email or drop by my office in the library or at the reference desk if you have questions.
Librarian:
Jean Caspers
jcaspers@linfield.edu
503-883-2262 (just 2262 on campus)