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Education and Library Science

Children's Core Collection
Service =HW Wilson

Children's Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists.
Children's Core Collection

Collaborating for Real Literacy: Librarian, Teacher, and Principal
Service = Thomson Gale

An in-depth look at literacy centers, multicultural issues, comprehensive instruction, integration of reading and writing, and assessment.
Collaborating for Real Literacy: Librarian, Teacher, and Principal

CollegeSource Online
Service =CollegeSource Online

A virtual library representing over 37,519 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. Includes hyperlinked table of contents and index, weekly updates and a search feature that includes finding colleges by: major, enrollment, tuition, degrees, state, or affiliation. Includes profiles of every accredited college in U.S along with added links.
CollegeSource Online

Encyclopedia of Education
Service = Thomson Gale

Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice within the United States and throughout the world.
Encyclopedia of Education

Information Science eBooks
Service =IGI Global eBooks

Searches 3 Information Science eBooks: Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities, Handbook of Research on ePortfolios, and Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level.
Information Science eBooks

Kraus Curriculum
Service = KCDL (Kraus Curreiculum Dev. Library)

A database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
Kraus Curriculum

Middle & Junior High Core Collection
Service = HW Wilson

This catalog provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, selection and purchasing, readers' advisory, and general reference for readers grades 5-9. Includes entries for nonfiction works, fiction and collections for children and adolescents, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. The Core Collection also includes entries for recommended CD-ROMs. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
Middle & Junior High Core Collection

Oxford English Dictionary
Service = Oxford University Press

According to The Times, the Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present. The OED provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words, traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources, offers etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings, and uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation.
Oxford English Dictionary

Public Library Core Collection: Fiction
Service = HW Wilson

A selective annotated list of fiction for adults including both established and contemporary works either written in or translated into English. The catalog is intended for collection development and for readers' guidance and reference service in public and undergraduate libraries.
Public Library Core Collection: Fiction

Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction
Service = HW Wilson

Public Library Catalog provides recommended readings for a broad readership. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, prices, subject headings, descriptive annotations, evaluative quotations from reviews, plus information on electronic editions of works where available. Reference works in all subject fields are included.
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction

Senior High Core Collection
Service = HW Wilson

A selective list of books recommended for grades 9-12 will prove invaluable for collection development and maintenance, readers' advisory, and curriculum support in the high school library. More than 10,000 entries for fiction and nonfiction works, as well as recommended CD-ROMs, offer listings of review sources and other aids for librarians and school media specialists. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
Senior High Core Collection

Tools for Successful Online Teaching
Service = Thomson Gale

Study of how to integrate a variety of Internet technology tools for successful online learning.
Tools for Successful Online Teaching

Understanding Online Instructional Modeling Theories and Practices
Service = Thomson Gale

Focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of online learning by introducing a variety of online instructional models and best practices that help educators and professional trainers to better understand the dynamics of online learning.
Understanding Online Instructional Modeling Theories and Practices