Resources in Education

About the Collection

The Education Collection in the Education and Social Science Library supports the instructional and research programs in the College of Education, the Council of Teacher Education, and the faculty and students in other departments with programs that include particular aspects of education. Currently the collection numbers about 240,000 volumes, most of them in the central bookstacks of the Main Library. The collection includes areas such as early childhood, elementary, secondary, higher, continuing, multicultural, special and human resource education, as well as philosophy of education, educational policy, educational psychology, curriculum and instruction, reading, testing and measurement, and educational administration. The collection is complemented by 58,000 volumes in the Curriculum Collection of elementary and secondary classroom materials and 133,000 volumes in the School Collection of children's and young adult literature. Please direct all comments or requests for information to Nancy O'Brien.

Selected Databases in Education

• Education Full-Text (1983 - )
• ERIC
  ERIC via CSA Tutorial
• Education Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
• EBSCO (Full-text)
• Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)
• International ERIC
• Kraus Curriculum Development Database
• Children's Literature
• Library Literature (includes children's literature and censorship articles)
• Mental Measurements Yearbook Online
• Child Care and Early Education: Research Connections
  (Free web database)
• Educational Resources Information Center (Free web database with current information about the ERIC system and access to the ERIC database.)
• The Chinese Educational Resources Information Centre Project (Chinese ERIC) (Free web database modeled after the U.S. ERIC. Includes both Chinese and English education journal articles related to the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.)

Reference Guides

• Distance Education: A Guide to Library Research for Distance Learners in Education
• Library Reference Guide for Education
• Statistics in the Social Sciences
• Resources for Educators in Illinois
• Take Us To School! Resources for Student Teachers

Special Collections in Education

• Curriculum Collection
• School Collection
• Tests and Measurements
• Illinois School Reform Resource Locator
• College and University Rankings and Evaluations
• Educational Standards
• English as an International Language
• Directory of Education Collections in Illinois (Education-related materials in other academic libraries throughout Illinois)

Electronic Journals in Education

Journals at the Education & Social Science Library

Selected Websites in Education

Full-Text Electronic Resources (UIUC)

• Digest of Education Statistics
• Education Statistics Quarterly from the National Center for Education Statistics.
• John Dewey: Collected Works (via Past Masters)

Recent Acquisitions

Class Guides

• Curriculum & Instruction 467/468 and Library & Information Science 403/404
• Curriculum & Instruction 507
• Curriculum & Instruction 550
• Educational Organization and Leadership 540
• Educational Policy Studies 201/202
• Global Studies in Education
• Human Resource Education 495
• Music Education 533