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

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Find relevant Internet resources
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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*"

"developmentally appropriate practice"

"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

Access these resources from off-campus using your MySVC Login and Password

Credo Reference
Provides access to over 900 general and specialized online reference books in one place. Sources include medicine, psychology, social sciences, and science. 

• Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Sage Key Concepts Series
• Early Childhood Development: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
• 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.
The following 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 

Select an online database from the list below to find articles from magazines, newspapers and journals.

• Choose full-text for best results.
• For further help, access our tutorials on using the databases

From off campus use your MySVC Login and Password

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