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Research Collections:
Educational
Resource Center Collection
Collection
Overview
The
Educational Resource Center serves the specialized resource needs
of the Lynch School
of Education students and faculty. The collections include
children's books, both fiction and non-fiction, curriculum and instructional
materials, both print and non-print, educational and psychological
tests, educational software aimed primarily for use at the elementary
and secondary school levels. These materials are unique to
the needs of the Lynch School of Education and do not duplicate
materials found in the O'Neill Library.
Interdisciplinary
Elements of Subject Area
Because
of the nature of the subject area, the ERC's collection is multi-disciplinary
with materials covering all areas of the curriculum: mathematics,
science, social studies, art, music, language arts, etc.
Resources
General
Collection:
The book collection consists of supporting materials for teaching
in all areas of the curriculum as well as selected methods texts.
The ERC subscribes to over 60 periodicals relating to teaching and
teachers including children's periodicals such as Cobblestone,
Faces, Dolphin Log, etc.
Children's
Literature:
The ERC collects children's books that are relevant to all areas
of the K-12 curriculum; they include fiction and nonfiction titles.
New books are regularly added to keep the collection current. A
small number of this collection are braille books.
Manipulatives:
The ERC has instructional manipulatives, the majority of them in
math, science and early childhood.
Educational
and Psychological Tests:
The educational and psychological tests available in the ERC are
to support the assessment courses taught in the Lynch School of
Education. In addition to the complete tests, the ERC also
has computer scoring disks. The tests are kept in a restricted
area and the tests circulate only to licensed psychologists who
are affiliated with Boston College or to students enrolled in an
assessment course in the Lynch School of Education.
Elementary
and Secondary Textbooks:
The ERC's textbook collection is continuously updated and consists
of K-12 textbooks currently in use in school systems throughout
the country. Included are language arts and reading series,
math, science and health textbooks, social studies texts, music
and art textbooks.
Curriculum
Guides:
Since it is extremely difficult to keep an updated collection of
paper curriculum guides, the ERC subscribes to the Kraus Curriculum
Development Library. This provides microfiche access to current
K-12, early childhood education, and adult basic education curriculum
guides from all over North America.
Software:
The ERC has a software collection consisting of the most current
software available for the K-12 environment. Formats include
laser discs, CD-ROMs and disks.
Video
and Audio Tapes:
The ERC collects video tapes that have direct relevance to classroom
teaching as well as videos pertaining to the wider K-12 educational
environment. The ERC also has a selection of audio tapes.
Languages:
The collection is primarily in English although there are some bilingual
children's books as well as works in Spanish and other languages
available.
Geographic
Areas (Subject Approach):
The collection is exclusively based on the materials available to
teachers in the United States.
Time
Periods (Subject Approach):
This is a current collection with no retrospective purchasing or
holdings.
Date
of Publication:
Current publications are the focus of the collection. The ERC K-12
textbook collection is current and any textbooks older than 10 years
are withdrawn. Older methods texts are withdrawn and, if possible,
replaced with current texts. Children's books are not weeded
(but replaced as needed with new copies).
Selected
Resources on the Web (Restricted to the BC Community)
Research
Guides
The
following resource guides provide helpful advice in locating material
pertaining to children's literature and education: Children's
Literature and Databases
and Indexes Useful for Educational Research.
Accessing
the Collections of the Educational Resource Center
BCAT,
BC Libraries' online catalog, is the database for identifying what
titles the Educational Resource Center collection contains.
In BCAT if one searches by Title, Author, or
Subject one must check under Location to see if the
item is at the ERC. However, adding the command el.puc.
in a keyword search will isolate the list of items retrieved to only
those titles held by the ERC. For example, the search
girls and science and el.puc.
will retrieve those records that have the words "girls" and "science"
in their records and that are in the Educational Resource Center.
Brendan
A. Rapple
Acting Head, Educational Resource Center
Campion Hall
1-617-552-4919
E-Mail: rappleb@bc.edu
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