Education Resources

Education Books

Education books are generally found in the L Library of Congress Classification section.  These books are located on the mezzanine of the tower in the library or in the folio section on the first floor if the books are oversized.  The L classification is broken into the following subdivisions:

L Education (General)
LA  History of Education
LB Theory and Practice of Education
LC  Special Aspects of Education
LD Individual Institutions in the United States
LE-LG Individual Institutions in Other Countries
LH College and School Magazines and Papers
LJ Students Fraternities and Societies, United States
LT Textbooks

Reference Sources

Biographical Information

Women Educators in the United States, 1820-1993:  a Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
[Ref. LA 2311 .W65 1994]

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Education / by Carter Victor Good.  3d ed.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1973.
[Ref. LB 15 .G6 1973]

Encyclopedia of Education.  8 vols.  [New York]: Macmillan, 2003.
[Ref. LB 15 .E47]

The Encyclopedia of Education Information for the Education Professional. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Publishing, 1994. 
[Ref. LB 1028 .N5 1994]

Encyclopedia of Educational Research.  6th ed.  4 vols.  New York: Macmillan, 1992. 
[Ref. LB 15 .E48 1992]

International Encyclopedia of Higher Education.  10 vols. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1977.
[Ref. LB 15 .I57]

Literacy Dictionary: The Vocabulary of Reading and Writing.  Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1995. 
[Ref. LB 1049.98 .L58 1995]

Directories

Indiana School Directory.  Indianapolis:  Indiana Department of Public Instruction. 
[Ref. LB 2803 .I6 A3 1997]

Patterson’s American Education.  Mount Prospect, IL: Educational Directories, 2001. 
[Ref. L 901 .P3 2001]

Patterson’s Elementary Education.  Mount Prospect, IL: Educational Directories, 2001. 
[Ref. L 901 .P33 2001]

World of Learning.  52nd ed.  London: Europa Publications Limited, 2002. 
[Ref. AS 2 .W6 2002]

Handbooks and Other References

American Federation of Teachers
[http://www.aft.org/teachers/index.htm]

The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac.  Washington, D.C.: The Chronicle of Higher Education, annual. 
[Folio LA 226 .C55]

Deskbook Encyclopedia of American School Law.  Rosemount, MN:  Data Research, 1994. 
[Ref. KF 4114 .D46 1994]

Commonsense Copyright: A Guide for Educators and Librarians / R.S. Talab. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. 
[Ref. KF 2994 .T36 1999]

Education Career Directory: a Practical, One-Stop Guide to Getting a Job in the Field of Education.  Detroit:  Visible Ink, 1994. 
[Ref. LB 1775 .E29 1994]

The Educator’s Desk Reference: A Sourcebook of Educational Information and Research.  New York: American Council on Education, Macmillan, 1989. 
[Ref. LB 1028.27 .U6F74 1989]

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.  Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Department of Education. 
[http://www.ed.gov/free]

Indiana's Academic Standards.  Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Education, 2000. 
[Ref. LB 1561 .I6I3 2000] 
[http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards]

Indiana Department of Education. 
[http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us]

Indiana Education Information from Access Indiana.
[http://www.in.gov/ai/education]

Just for Teachers. U.S. Department of Education. 
[http://www.ed.gov/teachers/landing.jhtml?src=pn]

Legal Deskbook for Administrators of Independent Colleges and Universities / Kent M. Weeks and Derek Davis. 2nd ed.  Waco, TX: Center for Constitutional Studies, Baylor University, 1993. 
[Ref. KF 4225 .W43 1993]

Mental Measurements Yearbook.  15th ed. Lincoln: Buros Institute of Mental Measurement of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003.  
[Ref. Z 5814 .P8 B932 2003]

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
[http://www.nbpts.org]

National Parent Teacher Association
[http://www.pta.org]

NASDTEC Manual: Manual on Certification and Preparation of Educational Personnel in the United States and Canada.  Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1996-1997. 
[Ref LB 1771 .N37]

Teacher Certification Requirements in All Fifty States / Joel E. Boydston.  Sebring, FL: Teacher Certification Publications, 2000. 
[Ref. LB 1771 .B69 2000]

Teacher Education Policy in the States: A 50-state survey of legislative and administrative actions.  Washington, D.C.: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1994. 
[Ref. LB 1715 .T433]

Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.  13th ed.  Phoenix, Oryx Press, 1995. 
[ Ref. Z 695.1 .E3T49]

Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.  7th ed.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1994. 
[Ref. Z695.1 .P7T413 1994]

U.S. Department of Education. 
[http://www.ed.gov]

Yahoo Internet Search Engine: Education Section. 
[http://dir.yahoo.com/education/index.html]

Series and Yearbooks on Individual Education Topics

Fastback. (series)  Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation Fastback, issued several times a year.
[Cataloged individually by topic; see Pegasus]
Fastback Index:  Title, Author, Subject.  Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa International, 1996. 
[Ref. L 11 .F372]

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.  Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, 1902-. 
[LB 5 .N25] 

Statistics

The Condition of Education by U.S. Department of Education, Center for Education Statistics.
[http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe]

Digest of Education Statistics.  Washington, D.C.:  National Center for Education Statistics. 
[http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/]

Indiana K-12 School Data.
[http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/htmls/education.html]

National Assessment of Educational Progress: The Nation’s Report Card. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
[http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard]

National Center for Education Statistics.
[http://nces.ed.gov]

Projections of Education Statistics to 2012.  Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.
[http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/proj2012]

Stats Indiana.  Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University, Indiana Business Research Center
[http://www.stats.indiana.edu/education_topic_page.html]

Indexes to Journals

Indexes to Education Journals

Academic Search Premier

Available through EBSCOHost.
Provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.

ERIC.
Available through EBSCOhost.
[http://www.eric.ed.gov/]
Covers published and unpublished sources on educational topics from 1966 to the present.

Indexes to Related Articles about Education

GPO Monthly Catalog
Available through FirstSearch.
Indexes materials published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976.
MasterFile Premier.
Available through EBSCOHost.
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals.

Middle School Search.
    
Available through EBSCOHost.
Provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Primary Search.
    
Available through EBSCOHost.
Full text for more than 31 children's magazines.

Professional Development Collection
Available through EBSCOHost.
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

PsycFIRST
Available through FirstSearch.
Most recent three years from the PsycINFO database.

SocAbs
Available through FirstSearch.
Abstracts on all aspects of sociology.