Education  Tags: education educ teaching teach curriculum  

Use the library catalogue to find books for your study and research, and books, DVDs and more to support your classroom teaching.
Education material is held in the Education Library but the other UC Library branches are jammed full of useful stuff too- just request material to get it brought to the Education Library for you to collect.

This is a very general list of call numbers for education books.
There are also education books at M, N, P and T (music, art, reading and technology).
Sports coaching books are in the GVs.

Resources for teaching planning and practice are in the classroom collection on Level 1 of the Education Library. This collection uses the Dewey Decimal classification system which is also used in school and public libraries.

How the Classroom Collection is Organised

Books in the Classroom Collection are organised using the Dewey Decimal Classification System. 

This is the broad Dewey layout:

• 000  Computer science, information, and general works
• 100  Philosophy and psychology
• 200  Religion
• 300  Social sciences
• 400  Languages
• 500  Science and Mathematics
• 600  Technology and applied science
• 700  Arts and recreation
• 800  Literature
• 900  History and geography and biography

The Classroom Collection also contains picture books and fiction for children and young adults.  These items are classified as follows:

JPB or PB - Picture books, including graphic novels

JFIC - Short stories and novels for an interest level uo to 13 years

YFIC - Short stories and novels for an interest level of 14-18 years

Searching the Classroom Collection

You can locate items in the Classroom Collection by using the Library Catalogue. For information about using the catalogue to search for items, you may wish to visit our tutorial.

When you search the catalogue, you may find it useful to limit your search to items in the Education Library.  To do this, go to the Library Catalogue and click on the ‘Advanced’ Tab.  Below the four search boxes you will see three options for limiting your search: Location, Language and Other Limits.  Under ‘Location’, simply click on ‘Location: Education’ – your search will be limited to items in the Education Library when this limiter is highlighted.

For a full description of the other options an ‘Advanced’ Search gives you, please click here.

Classroom Materials Online Resources

Various sources of information and materials are available onlinw to help you prepare classroom activities.  To access a list of useful websites, go to the LibGuides Homepage and then select your subject from the ‘Topic A-M’ or ‘Topic N-Z’drop down menus.

Read more about call numbers.