News from the
Educational Resources Collections
Volume 1, Issue 2
Mon.Thurs.
Friday
Sat.
Sun.
HOURS
Fall 2007
Message from the Media Librarian
7am—3am
It’s finally beginning to look and feel like fall! With the semester flying by the
University Libraries can help support classroom instruction in multiple ways:
7am—9pm
9am—6:30pm
10am—3am
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Educational Resources
Collections
Bracken, Lower Level
(765) 285-5340
www.bsu.edu/library/
collections/edres/
ERC Staff
Diane E. Hill
Media Librarian
dhill@bsu.edu
Julie Nelson
Info/Circulation Supervisor
jnelson2@bsu.edu
Justin Knox
Office Supervisor
jmknox@bsu.edu
Mandy Vance
Info/Circ Evening Supervisor
mjvance@bsu.edu
Abdalla Abdalla
Circulation Assistant
aabdalla@bsu.edu
Bradley Johnston
Booking/Reserves Assistant
bcjohnston@bsu.edu
Behrouz Kousari
Equipment Technician
bkousari@bsu.edu
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Place articles on electronic reserves with Periodicals/Reserves/
Microforms (PRM) (5-5141). PRM will also manage your reserve books.
Place DVDs, videocassettes and other nonbook titles on reserve in Educational Resources Collections (ERC) (5-5334).
K-12 state adopted textbooks, curriculum studies materials, and youth
books can also be placed on reserve in ERC.
Free up class time and enjoy having the Libraries’ reserve units manage your
personal copies along with applicable library owned materials. We are here
to assist you. Call me for possible solutions to your
instruction dilemmas (5-5333).
Planning for Next Semester
The Media Librarian in Educational
Resources Collections (ERC) offers
instruction sessions that focus on the
materials available in ERC and how to
identify items that will enhance any
classroom teaching session. Students in selected EDEL 100 and
EDEL 200 classes recently attended
sessions where they learned to identify Indiana state adopted textbooks
for specific grade levels and locate
these in Educational Resources. To
schedule instruction for spring semester call Diane Hill at 285-5333 or
Library Instruction at
285-8017.
Learn Another Language Through Media
Educational Resources Collections
(ERC) has a variety of materials to
support language learning. Books are
always a good choice, but ERC also
offers multimedia materials that engage multiple senses including sight,
sound, and touch. For
example, choose a foreign
film and use the subtitles. Listen to short stories in French or Spanish
on compact disc.
Check out the Rosetta Stone
computer disks to learn Japanese, Korean, or Chinese to
name a few. Increase vocabulary with flash cards or a
board game such as Scrabble
available in French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Explore cultures
through pictures, artifacts, flags, kits,
realia, and more. Search for these
items in CardCat or ask for assistance
at the ERC circulation counter. Until
then, Adios, Auf Wiedersehen, or
Ciao.
News from the Educational Resources Collections
Page 2
Is Ventriloquism a Lost Art?
Click on
Media
Finders
in the left
column of the
University
Libraries web
page for quick
CardCat
searching!
Apparently not in America! Just ask
NBC’s America’s Got Talent million dollar prize winner ventriloquist, Terry
Fator. Maybe it’s time to work up an
act! Ventriloquist dolls Charlie MacCarthy and Mortimer Snerd are awaiting
your arrival in Bracken’s Educational
Resources Collections (ERC). They can
help you learn how to pull all the right
strings. In addition to these once very
popular entertainment icons, ERC
offers hundreds of puppets in all sizes,
species, and shapes. If the art of performance is in your future, ventriloquism or puppetry could be the start to
a financially and personally rewarding
career. It can certainly help engage
students in many classroom situations.
Wireless Laptop Printing Available in Bracken!
Do you need to print from your laptop
on campus but don’t have a printer
handy? University Libraries now provides printing capability from wireless
laptops. To access this service, go to
www.bsu.edu/libraries/laptopprint.
No additional software is required.
Print jobs may be sent to Bracken
Library, the Architecture Library or the
Science Health Science Library. Print
jobs time-out after 90 minutes.
What’s New?
Examples of recent
acquisitions:
New Videos in ERC
Check out the
musical
instruments!
Freedom Writers
[presented by] Paramount
Pictures in association
with MTV Films ; directed
by Richard LaGravenese ;
screenplay by Richard
LaGravenese ; produced
by Danny DeVito, Michael
Shamberg, Stacey Sher.
Paramount, 2007.
Call number: DVD Video
3200.
Psychology and education professionals as social justice agents: if not
us, then who? [presented
by] Microtraining and Multicultural Development.
Distributed by Microtraining Associates, c2007.
Call number: DVD Video
3057.
RTI tackles the LD explosion: a good IDEA be-
comes law / featuring
Karen Norlander and
Karen Kemp ; executive
producer, Robert M. National Professional Resources, c2007.
Call number DVD Video
2478.
New Youth Books in
ERC
Tracking trash : flotsam,
jetsam, and the science of
ocean motion / Loree Griffin Burns. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Call number: 551.46
B967tr
A seed is sleepy / by
Dianna Hutts Aston ; illustrated by Sylvia Long.
Chronicle Books, c2007.
Call number: 581.46
A856se.
Rainstorm / Barbara Lehman. Houghton Mifflin,
2007.
Call number: 800 L5235ra
New Curriculum Guides
in ERC
Mother Goose readers
theatre for beginning
readers / Anthony D.
Fredericks. Teacher
Ideas Press, 2007.
Call number: 792-E A1
M68 2007
Children moving : a reflective approach to teaching
physical education /
George Graham, Shirley
Ann Holt/Hale, Melissa
Parker. McGraw-Hill,
c2007.
Call number: 796-E A1
C46 2007
Elementary and middle
school mathematics :
teaching developmentally / John A. Van de
Walle. 6th ed. Pearson /
Allyn and Bacon, c2007.
Call number: 511-E A1
E44 2007