Child Development I & II Educ& 115 & 122: Using the Library

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Find relevant eResources

Search the library catalog for books,eBooks, and DVDs:

To see only items available in the library, try changing the search from "Everything" to "Library Catalog"

Your search will look like this:

These are examples of search terms to try:
(HINTS: use "quotation marks" to search a phrase, use an asterisk * for variations on endings of words)

"child care"

"child development"

"cognitive psychology AND child*"

"early childhood education"

"early childhood development"

"toddler development"

"infant development"

Subject headings can help locate materials on your topic or you can browse the stacks using general call numbers.

Here are some subject headings relevant to Child Development and their location numbers in the Dewey Decimal System:

• Adolescence    301.431
• Child Care  362.712  
• Child Development   305.23   
• Child Psychology    155.4
• Cognitive Learning   370.152
• Developmental Psychology   155
• Family   306.8
• Infants Development  305.231
• Parent and Child   306.874
• Parenting   649.1
• Special education   371.9
• Toddlers Development   305.231

CREDO REFERENCE
Provides access to over 900 general and specialized online reference books in one place.  Sources include medicine, psychology, social sciences, and science. 
Here are some examples:

• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development; 
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain 
• Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children 
•  The Human Body Book: an Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function and Disorders
• Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care 

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• Child Development Video Series   
• Adolescence     
• Constructing the self

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Alexander Street Video Online
Streaming video.
Here are some examples:

• Successful Language Development Strategies in the Early Childhood Classroom: for English Language Learners and Native Speakers
• Growing Minds: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

• Psychologists and their theories for students
• Gross Motor Skills
• Language Acquisition 

Use the online databases below to find magazine, newspaper and journal articles. 

Also find our tutorials on using the databases

Choose  full-text  and  scholarly journals  for best results:

• EBSCOHOST ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER  
• ERIC:  an educational periodical resource 
• JSTOR
• PROQUEST 
• SCIENCE DIRECT