Penn State Great Valley Library Blog

The Penn State Great Valley Library offers many resources for our Curriculum, Instruction, Instructional Systems, Special Education, and Educational Certification students. In addition to our print collection the library offers:

• Children’s Literature Collection – this collection encompasses a range of children’s reading levels, from picture books to high school, including familiar titles as:
o Yves Got - Sam’s First Word Book
o Dr. Seuss - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
o Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree
o Sharmat, Sharmat & Wheeler - Nate the Great & the Stolen Base
o Philip Sherlock - ANANSI The Spider Man
o Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
o Judy Blume - Best Friends Forever
o Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
o Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl
o J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter
o Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote

• Foss hands-on student activity boxes (geared toward elementary activities in studying scientific measurements, magnetism & electricity, food & nutrition, air & weather, to name a few)

• Standardized educational and psychological tests

• Electronic resources - accessed through Penn State’s Library main page (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul.html) and select Databases by title (A-Z)
o ERIC
o Education Abstracts Full Text
o ProQuest
o Professional Development Collection
o Elsevier ScienceDirect
o MIT CogNet
o PsycINFO

• Electronic resources of interest for Education:
o Ethnic NewsWatch
o Sociological Abstracts
o Dissertation and Theses

If you have any questions or need help please stop in, call 610-648-3215, or e-mail Dolores Fidishun, Head Librarian dxf19@psu.edu.

A panel of federal judges who determine royalty rates for recordings has set royalty rates for digital music including downloads, ring tones and other services. You can get more information from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03royalty.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is Hispanic Heritage month!
This is a time to honor the culture and diversity of our Hispanic citizens. The library has created a bulletin board with a wealth of information and setup a display of our favorite Hispanic children’s books. If you have a few minutes, you might enjoy stopping by to check this out.

Also, not to be forgotten is Penn State’s electronic resource –
Ethnic NewsWatch database. Available through ProQuest, this database contains Ethnic newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters, with nearly a quarter of million articles presented in Spanish. There are dozens of Latino publications including El Nuevo Herald, El Diario/La Prensa, and Mundo Hispanico.

This database can be found by accessing the Penn State Library’s home page (http://www.libraries.psu.edu), selecting Databases by Title (A-Z), then scrolling down to Ethnic NewsWatch and clicking on it.
If you have any questions we are here to help.