Educational Administration
Most professional librarians serve as subject bibliographers for one or more academic departments or programs. They work with the faculty members to develop the library's collection, promote its use and provide library instruction.
For the College of Education, the subject bibliographer is:
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Chris Guder, Reference Librarian
Office: 206 Alden Library, Learning Commons (2nd floor)
Phone: (740) 597-1975
E-Mail: guder@ohio.edu
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The faculty library liaison person is:
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Dr. Teresa Franklin, Associate Professor of Education
Office: 313D McCracken Hall
Phone: (740) 593-4561
E-mail: franklit@ohio.edu |
American School Directory
Contains information on 108,000 K-12 schools in the United States.
URL: http://www.asd.com/
Baldwin's Ohio School Law: A Complete Guide to Law and Fiscal Procedure. Banks-Baldwin Law Pub. Co.
Location: Reference LB2529.O3 B3
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Psychology and Administration. Beaumont, TX: Cabell Publishing Co., 2002.
Location: Reference Z286 E3 C323x 2002
Deskbook Encyclopedia of American School Law. Rosemount, Minn. : Informational Research Systems, (annual).
Location: Reference KF4102 .D47x
A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education. by Perry A. Zirkel, Sharon Nalbone Richardson, and Steven S. Goldberg. 4th ed. Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2001.
Location: Reference KF4114 .Z57 2001
Directory of Organizations in Educational Management
Guides users to service and research organizations which are sources of information on a wide range of topics related to educational policy, management, leadership, and organization of K-12 schools.
URL: http://eric.uoregon.edu/directory/
Education Week Special Reports
Among other reports, includes Quality Counts and Technology Counts.
URL: http://www.teachermagazine.org/sreports/index.cfm
Educator's Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters, by P. Susan Mamchak and Steven R. Mamchak. West Nyack, NY: Center for Applied Research in Education, 1998.
Location: Reference LB2845.7 M33
Funding Sources for K-12 Education. 2nd ed. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2005.
Location: Reference LC243 .A1 F85 2005
Grants for Elementary and Secondary Education. New York: The Foundation Center.
Location: Reference LB2825 G72x (latest - earlier volumes in the General Stacks)
Handbook of Ohio School Law. Cincinnati: Anderson Pub. Co., (annual).
Location: Reference KFO390.A195 H36x (latest - earlier volumes in the General Stacks)
Handbook of Research on Educational Administration. Ed. by Joseph Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.
Location: LB2805 .H2864 1999
Ohio Department of Education Data
Includes statistics about enrollment, expenditure per pupil, salaries, and proficiency tests.
United States School Laws and Rules. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., (annual).
Location: Reference KF4105.99 .U55
West's Education Law Digest. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co. (28 vols. with pocket part updates.)
Location: Reference KF4110 .A2 W476
Library catalogs generally include references for materials like books, journals, and videos owned by a particular library or group of libraries. They do not include articles within journals, and most (including OU's catalog) don't include ERIC documents. To access those materials, use Indexes and Abstracts
A useful heading in these catalogs is School Management and Organization
- ALICE: Ohio University Libraries' Online Catalog
- ALICE is the name of the online library catalog for all campuses of Ohio University - Athens, Chillicothe, Eastern, Lancaster, Southern, and Zanesville.
- OhioLINK Central Catalog
- The OhioLINK Central Catalog represents the combined holdings of more than fifty libraries around the state. (See our page on borrowing books from OhioLINK.)
- WorldCat
- WorldCat is an international database for bibliographic information catalogued by many thousands of libraries. Consists of over 30 million bibliographic records. This is a good database for identifying materials not held in Ohio libraries. You can't borrow directly through this database. If you find materials here that are not available through OhioLINK, use Ohio University's Interlibrary Loan service.
- Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
Education Abstracts
- Indexes 600 international English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in the field of education. Includes books reviews from those publications.
- Coverage of the electronic version is 1983 to the present. It is updated monthly.
- There is also a Retrospective Education Index for 1929-1982.
- Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
Education Research Complete
- Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
- Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
ERIC
- Indexes approximately 600 journals in the field of education and related fields. Also indexes the ERIC document collection. ERIC documents often include papers presented at psychological conferences.
- Coverage is 1966 to the present. It is updated monthly.
- Here is an alternate form of ERIC which is also available in Ohio public schools and public libraries.
- Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
Proquest Digital Dissertations
- Citations of more than 2.4 million doctoral dissertations from 550 U.S. and international institutions.
- Selected masters theses and international dissertations included since 1988.
- Abstracts are included from 1981 to the present. Abstracts of earlier dissertations are on microfilm, on the 1st floor of Alden Library. Abstracts are unavailable for years before 1938.
- Supports the ordering of paper and microform copies of dissertations.
- Provides free access to the electronic texts (PDF files) of all Ohio University dissertations published 1997 forward.
- Availability: All on-campus computers with web access; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
- More information on identifying dissertations http://www.library.ohiou.edu/find/diss.html
Periodicals Index Online (former title was PCI: Periodical Contents Index)
- This is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
- Good for historical research.
- Availability: All Athens campus computers with web access; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
Social Science Citation Index
- Indexes articles and citations from over 1700 international journals in all areas of the social sciences. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
- Coverage of source journals is 1980 to date. Cited references can come from any time period. It is updated weekly.
- Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
This is a selective list of higher education journals owned by the Ohio University Libraries.
Click on a title to get more information about our holdings.
- American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
- URL: http://www.aasa.org/
- Professional association of administrators and executives of school systems and educational service agencies; school district superintendents; central, building, and service unit administrators; presidents of colleges, deans, and professors of educational administration; placement officers; executive directors and administrators of education associations; heads of private schools.
- Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP)
- URL: http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/
- CTP has been created to investigate the relation between excellent teaching and policymaking at national, state, and local levels.
- Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
- URL: http://www.cpre.org
- CPRE unites researchers from five of the nation's leading universities to improve elementary and secondary education through research on policy, finance, school reform, and school governance.
- Education Commission of the States
- URL: http://www.ecs.org/
- Keeps policymakers informed of what's happening in the states by gathering, analyzing and disseminating information about current and emerging issues, trends and innovations in state education policy.
- Education Law Association
- URL: http://www.educationlaw.org/
- Education Law Association, formerly NOLPE, is a nonprofit, nonadvocacy organization that promotes interest in and understanding of the legal framework of education and the rights of students, parents, school boards and school employees.
- National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
- URL: http://www.naesp.org/
- Professional association of principals, assistant or vice principals, and aspiring principals; persons engaged in educational research and in the professional education of elementary and middle school administrators.
- National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
- URL: http://www.nassp.org/
- High school and middle head school principals and assistant principals; other persons engaged in secondary school administration and/or supervision; college professors teaching courses in secondary education.
- Ohio School Boards Association
- URL: http://www.osba-ohio.org/
- The Ohio School Boards Association is a private, not-for-profit statewide organization of public school boards. Founded in 1955, OSBA's purpose is to encourage and advance public education through local citizen responsibility.
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