SHASTA COLLEGE LIBRARY 11555 Old Oregon Trail  *  PO Box 496006  *   Redding, CA 96049-6006

Library Contact: Carolyn Salus Singh

Locating Information: Books,  Videos, and Online eBooks

Locating Information: Journal Articles

Useful Internet Links for Education and Teaching

Citing Your Sources: MLA Style

Shasta College Library Information

early childhood education, education, education primary, education secondary, high schools, history of education, kindergarten, public schools, teaching, montessori, nursery schools, teachers, teaching, theory and practice of education,

Favorite Education Reference Books

This list is a small sample.  Browse the reference shelves and book stacks at these call numbers for additional titles.

Dictionaries

Facts on File Dictionary of Education edited by Jay M. Shafritz. [Reference LB 15 S43 1998]

Encyclopedias

Facts on File Dictionary of Education edited by Jay M. Shafritz. [Reference LB 15 S43 1998]

Handbooks & Directories

Directory of Post Secondary Institutions. U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Center for Education Statistics. [Reference L901 .E34 1996]

A Directory of Public Vocational-Technical Schools, Colleges and Institutes in the U.S.A. edited by Marcia Gabriel. [Reference T73 .D58 1998/99]

The Quick Internet Guide to Career and Education Information by Anne Wolfinger. [Reference HF5382.75 .U6 W65 2000]

• Locating Education Videos
• Select Library Catalog from the Library's web page.
• Click on Search/Home and then click on Or Switch to Power Search.
• Enter your search term in the words or phrase box.
• Scroll down and select VIDEOCASS from the type box.  Click on Search.
• Over 90 titles are retrieved.
• Please note that some videos are stored in the Media Viewing Area

while others are stored at the Circulation Desk.
• If you don't find the video you need, repeat your search with more specific search terms.

• Locating education Online eBooks:
• Select Library Catalog from the Library's web page.
• Click on Power Search.
• Enter your search term in the words or phrase box.

Scroll down and select ONLINE BK-Online Books from the type box.  Click on Search.
• Repeat search with different search terms.
• Online eBook is read by clicking on the URL button.

The Library also subscribes to over 50 Articles & Databases to help you locate magazine and newspaper articles. Click on Alphabetical List of Databases to view the complete selection available to you. You'll note that most afford excellent coverage of current events and social issues. A few also focus on education issues.
 

To login on campus or from one of the extended ed sites,  click on the database's title. If off campus, click on the satellite icon and follow instructions. A Library Card is required to access most databases from off campus. For information about acquiring a Library Card, click on Apply for a Library Card under Quick Links from our home page.

• The Ebsco family of databases

Ebsco's databases include general interest, professional, and academic resources that contain the full text of articles or links to the articles online. Multiple databases can be searched simultaneously. Ebsco databases with strong coverage of education topics include:
• Academic Search Premier  Multi-disciplinary database containing the full text of articles from nearly 4,000 peer- reviewed journals.
• Masterfile Premier Multi-disciplinary database containing the full text of articles from over 2,000 general interest magazines and reference works.  Most of the resources are drawn from popular literature.
• ERIC A user friendly version of the Educational Resource Information Center's database.  ERIC contains over 2,000 abstratcts along with references for additional information from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Caution:  ERIC provides digests and abstracts only. Full text must be obtained via the Shasta College Library's Interlibrary Loan service.  Simpson College's Kilgour Memorial Library holds ERIC documents published after 1988 in either microfiche or online.  The Kilgour Memorial Library welcomes Shasta College students!
• Professional Development Collection  Highly specialized collection of the full text from more than 550 education journals and reports.  More than half of these are peer-reviewed titles.
• Vocational & Career Collection  Full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Some assignments specify the use of refereed (also known as peer- reviewed) articles.  The 11th edition of  Magazines for Libraries (Ready Ref Z 6941 .M23 2002) defines a refereed journal as one where  "manuscripts submitted...are examined both by the editor and one or more specialist in the individual field before approval is given to publish.  The readers (sometimes called an editorial board) apparently ensure a  better chance that the final product will be a contribution to knowledge."  To limit to peer-reviewed journals: Click on Refine Search. Scroll down to Limit your results. Click on Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.

• Librarian's Internet Index (LII)

Anybody can publish anything on the web.  How can you rapidly find reliable information? The LII is a classified list of over 50,000 web sites. These sites have been previewed by librarians (and if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?) and are regularly updated.  Education might be too broad a term, but try education periodicals in the search box and you will retrieve two sites listed below. Other good terms to try are:  education statistics, educational technology, teachers certification, teaching aids and devices.  Among these dozens of sites are:
• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing - http://www.ctc.ca.gov/

Comprehensive site that describes credentialing requirements and  examinations.  Also provides links to California Education Code, the California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST) site,  and many teacher training programs.
• California Department of Education - http://www.cde.ca.gov/

This site details current policy and trends, such as class size reduction and minority education. It reports the latest news on the Academic Performance Index, STAR Testing, and The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
• California Teachers Association - http://www.cta.org/CorePage.htm

This organization boasts a state-wide membership of over 330,000 teachers and assistants.  The SCTA provides information on scholarships, credentialing, salaries, and workshops.  Follow the SCTA link to the Student California Teachers Association web page. Choose to Teach, the SCTA's bi-monthly newsletter, is posted on this page. If you find an advisor, you can open a SCTA chapter here at Shasta College!
• Teach for America - http://www.teachforamerica.org/tfa/

Since its founding in 1990, Teach for America has placed 9,000 recent college graduates as teachers in urban and rural public schools across the United States.  This selective program requires a two year commitment and believes that excellent teachers can effect dramatic change in the lives of children.
• U.S. Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/

This vast site contains educational statistics, policy, curricula, and news.  Click on Financial Aid  for information on funding your education.  Click on Teachers for information on obtaining your degree and creating a classroom.
• Other sites to monitor:
• CSU Chico, Department of Education Links - http://www.csuchico.edu/educ/educ_links.html

Favorite web links from the Department of Education include credentialing, lesson plans, major libraries.
• Project Arise: Advanced Rural Integrated Science Education - http://www.projectarise.org/

The Shasta County Office of Education is the liaison for Project ARISE, a program sponsored the Eisenhower Foundation.  This site includes lesson plans, power points, news and science resources for the classroom.
• Teachers.net - http://teachers.net

This site contains a curriculum database, chat and message boards, printable projects, and a monthly gazette. Much of the material is contributed by teachers (not academics).  The site also contains advertising for myriad education related books and products.

Books
• The official guide for this style is:

Joseph Gibaldi's MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed.  (Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 1999)
• Another helpful (if not official) book is:

Andrew Harnack's Online! : A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources  (Reference TK 5105.875 .I57 .H364 2000)
Websites
• Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Guide (official)
• Online(companion web site to Andrew Harnack's above mentioned book)
• Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Style (Capital Community College)
• Modern Language Association (MLA) Style: examples (Monroe Community College)
• MLA Style Guide:examples (University of Southern Mississippi)

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgment (Dartmouth College)

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