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Education: Print Books at Bethel College

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

Find books using the catalog

Search by:

1. Author (lastname firstname)

2. Title--one trick, if the title starts with "A," An," "The," or any foreign language equivalents, start with the next word in the title. So The Old Man and the Sea should be searched Old Man and the Sea

3. Keyword--these words might appear in the title, abstract, table of contents, as an author, and in a few other places

4. Subject--Subjects provide uniformity for topics that might be described or titled many different things. Use the library catalog's SUBJECT search to most accurately retrieve all books owned that have to do with education.  These headings are standard across most libraries in the United Statesa and are called LC, or Library of Congress, subject headings. Representative entries in our catalog include:

Early childhood education
subdivision Education (Early childhood) under classes of persons and ethnic groups; and subdivision Study and teaching (Early childhood) under subjects, e.g. Science--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Here are entered works on the activities and schooling that are intended to effect developmental changes in children from birth through elementary grade 3. Works on the structured education of children before entering kindergarten or grade 1 in elementary school are entered under Education, Preschool.

Search the Library Catalog

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

A sampling of BCL Main books about education

Find books by browsing

Browsing through the stacks works!  If you know the basics of how literature and criticism are shelved, it's easy to simply go to the stacks and pull books off the shelf in relevant call number ranges.