Resources for Education

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.
