News

Education News	New York Times — Education
Education Week	The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reference

• The handbook of education and human development: new models of learning, teaching, and schooling REF LB 1115 .H313 1996
• The International encyclopedia of teaching and teacher education REF LB 17 .I56 1987
• A bibliographic guide to educational research REF LB 17. B39 1980
• Education and sociology: an encyclopedia REF LC 189.95 .E38 2002
• Handbook of research on teaching REF LB 1028 .H315 1986
• Encyclopedia of American education REF LB 17 .U54 1996

Books & Documents

Print books —  Thorncat lists approximately 1,400 print book titles with education as a subject heading. In addition, there is a separate collection of 1,000+ juvenile fiction and non-fiction books available

Electronic Books — The library subscribes to approximately 280 electronic books dealing with education. These are titles published between 1997 and the present and can be accessed from Thorncat the library's online catalog.

Documents — The library has a collection of ERIC documents on microfiche and a number of other government documents.

Also search:

Mainecat— Search Maine Libraries.

Worldcat— Search 10,000 libraries worldwide.

Videos & DVDs

You can find the following Videos and DVDs in the Thorndike Library:

• Preschool in three cultures videorecording : Japan, China, and the United States VIDEO LB 1140.25 .J3 T63
• Listening to children: a moral journey with Robert Coles VIDEO BF 723 .M54 L57 1995
• An Extraordinary Educational Journey VIDEO LB 1047 .A9
• A class divided VIDEO LC 212.22 .I8 C52 1986
• Developing minds VIDEO LB 1051 .D48 2007

Indexes & Databases

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Marvel!—60+ subscription based databases purchased by the State of Maine. Education related Maine databases include: sdasda

Academic Search Premier* — Full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly publications.

Annals of American History* — Over 2,100 original full-text source documents on the United States history from 1493 to the present.

ERIC* — Indexes and abstracts journal articles and documents on education research and practice, from 1966 to the present. Updated monthly.

Literature Resource Center*— Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption Database* — Contains over 32,000 bibliographic citations and abstracts of professional literature.

Middle Search Plus* — Full text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research.

Novelist K-8* — For teachers and younger readers who want to find fiction titles for classroom use or reading.

Primary Search* — A collection of sources on a wide range of general topics for elementary schools and children's reading rooms.

ProQuest Newspapers* — Provides the full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources.

Searchasaurus for Kids* — Easy-to-use, colorful interface for young kids.

Academic Universe — Full text information from over 5,600 sources including news organziations & wire services.

GPO Catalog of US Government Publications— covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records, documents issued by executive departments, etc.

JSTOR— Full text journal articles in all subject areas that are usually three (plus) years old.

DOAJ— Directory of Open Access Journals provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Find Articles at BNET.com— Browse publications by alphabets.

Journals

Print Journals

Over 20 education journal titles are in the library collection. Of these, the following nine are kept current. Please go to Thorncat for our holdings.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Social Education
• Teaching Children Mathematics
• Equity and Excellence in Mathematics
• Language Arts
• Journal of Museum Education
• NSTA Report
• Science and Teacher
• Science & Children

Electronic Journals

E-journals at Thorndike Library— Locate full text journal titles available through Thorndike Library's subscriptions. Use the 'Please select a subject category' drop down menu.

E-journals at Marvel!— Locate full text journal titles available through Marvel!, Maine's subscription databases.

Senior Projects

Please visit Thorncat for Senior Projects with the topic "Education."Ask a staff member for assistance to view Senior Projects.

*Funding provided by the Maine State Library and University of Maine System.