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Curriculum Department

Guide to the Curriculum Department

Overview

The Curriculum Area:

  • provides support to the College of Education in its goal of graduating candidates who are knowledgeable and effective practitioners;
  • supports the English Department in their courses instructing in the critical analysis of juvenile literature.

Curriculum and media collections

Curriculum and media collections are located on the second floor of the library and include:

Also, we have recently added a number of children's magazines to Flipster.

Services

The library facility includes approximately 90 computers with a suite of office applications available to patrons to prepare documents, such as presentations, research reports, or, to access the Internet. Calvin T. Ryan’s catalog and the majority of the holdings in the library are indexed in an online catalog. E-books, journals, and other electronic resources are available through the catalog by faculty and students from any computer with Internet access, throughout the world.

Study rooms and a classroom provide spaces for students to practice presentations in an educational setting. Audio-visual equipment also facilitates classroom preparation and opportunities to view the electronic media maintained by the library.

Reference service is available in person, via email, and through a chat service. As with the library’s digital resources, chat based reference service is available from any computer with Internet access, throughout the world. In addition to the Calvin T. Ryan Library reference staff, expert reference librarians from other institutions provide back-up reference service. This service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

 

Staff

Rochelle Reeves is the librarian responsible for the Curriculum area. Sharon Kofoed is the Curriculum Associate. The Curriculum personnel offices are currently located on the second floor of the library.

Rochelle Reeves also serves as liaison to the departments of: Communication Disorders, Counseling and School Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Educational Administration, Family Science & Family Advocacy, Teacher Education, and the juvenile literature instructors of English.