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Education: Print Reference Books

How to find material relevant to teachers and educators from books to journal articles to tests.

How do you find reference materials?

The library has many print and online resources that are reference in nature To find handbooks/guides/etc. that could help you learn more quickly about your area of research, search the library online catalog as follows:

In Advanced Search, use dictionaries handbooks guides to retrieve reference-type materials. These words are parts of the subject headings listed for such books.  Make sure to designate "any of these" and "Subject".  In this search, "poetry" must appear anywhere in the book's catalog record:  title, subject, table of contents, etc.

eBooks are designated as "electronic resources" in our catalog.

Search the Library Catalog

Enter relevant search terms and select the field you want the catalog to search.

OR

Here is a direct link to the College Library catalog.

Reference books in BCL Main

Listed below several useful reference books for educators in the library.  Not all are shelved in the reference area; some are upstairs in the circulating stacks.