The following information is an overview of information relevant to the Early Childhood Education and related programs found in the Hartfield Library at Henderson Community College. This information is not intended to be a complete list of such material, but rather is a sampling of some titles that will be helpful and easily found in the Hartfield Library.

To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called Voyager. Using Voyager, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "early childhood education.” Voyager will show you all the books and audiovisual materials available on the selected topic. You will find that many Library of Congress call numbers on these subjects begin with the letter “LB.” If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, looking in the “LB” section would be a good place to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or Internet Web sites. Each of these sources of information is explained below.

If you have questions or need assistance in finding additional materials, please see a librarian at the reference desk or contact the reference desk at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is available at kevin.reid@kctcs.edu.

FINDING BOOKS
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use Voyager. When searching Voyager, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. More thorough instructions on the use of Voyager are available in the tri-fold brochure titled “Using Voyager.” This brochure is available at the front of the library.

Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in Voyager to tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those that use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings that are particularly useful for students in the Early Childhood Education program are:

Child Abuse

Child Development

Child Neglect

Early Childhood Education                   

Early Childhood Educators

Early Childhood Teachers

Education

Education, Preschool                                  

Education, Primary

Kindergarten                                                 

Reference Books
Reference materials are materials that are created to give you general information about a topic. After you read the information in a reference book, you can search the library for more detailed and extensive information. Hopefully, you will find some good ideas about useful subject headings or key words that are relevant to your topic by looking through the reference books. When you are ready to search for more information about your topic, you can use the library's online catalog, Voyager. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you might find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.

1. Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook, REF LB 1029.67 .K52 2003

2.  Encyclopedia of Education, REF LB 15 .E47 2003

3.  Something About the Author, REF PN 451 .S6

4.  Statistical Record of Children, REF HQ 767.8 .S73

5.  Major Authors and Illustrators for Children & Young Adults, REF PN 497 .M3

6.  Index to Poetry for Children and Young People, REF PN 1023 .B722

Books That Can Be Checked Out (Circulating Books)

Circulating books are books that can be checked out of the library. The circulating collection is located on the second floor of the library. Anyone with a valid library card may check out these books. Below are some titles that may be of interest to students in the Early Childhood Education Program.

1. Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years, LB 1139.35 .P8 H46 2001

2.  The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Visual Arts into the Early Childhood Curriculum, LB 1139.5 .A78 A48 2003

3.  Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, LB 3011.5 .H37 1998
4.Good day, bad day: The Child’s Experience of Day Care, HQ778.7 .U6 B43 1990

5.  Guide to Accreditation by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs: Self-Study, Validation, Accreditation, LB 2822.7 .G85 1998

6. More Story Stretchers: More Activities to Expand Children’s Favorite Books, LB 1139.35 .A37 R34

Electronic Books

Many of the library's newest books for the Early Childhood Education Program are available electronically through the Voyager online catalog. To access these books, simply enter a search in Voyager, and scan the resulting titles. If an e-book is available, the phrase, "[electronic resource]" will appear after the title. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Additional instructions for accessing electronic books are available at the reference desk. Some Early Childhood Education titles include:

• Understanding Assessment and Evaluation in Early Childhood Education
• Awakening Children’s Minds
• Emotional Development of Young Children
• Engaging Young Children in Mathematics
• Creative Activities for Young Children
• Educating Children with Autism
• Working with Children from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds
• Resumes for Education Careers

FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Students generally find articles taken from magazines and journals to be particularly useful sources of current information. To help students, the Hartfield Library subscribes to a wide variety of periodicals in both hard copy and electronic formats. The articles available electronically are found on a number of databases accessible through the library's web page.  For instructions on how to access articles from the specific databases, use the tri-fold brochures available in the front of the library (e.g. "How to Use InfoTrac.")

Printed Periodicals
The following periodical titles are available in the hardcopy format on the library's first floor and are of value to the students of the Early Childhood Education Program.

1. American Educator

2.   Child Health Alert

3.   Dimensions of Early Childhood

4.   Education Digest

5.   Exceptional Children

6.   Journal of Educational Research

7.   Parents

8.   Phi Delta Kappan

9.   Sociology of Education

10. Teaching Pre-K to 8

11. Young Children

12.  Zero to Three

Online Databases
Each of these databases contains hundreds of full-text articles as they were published in various national magazines and journals. To see which periodicals are available full-text in each database, select that database, go to the message "Title List" and click on it to review the list (in the ProQuest databases, click on “Publication Search”). If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.

Please note that each database offers help screens that explain how the search engine of that database operates. These help screens also identify the advanced search options for students who want to fine-tune their searches.

EBSCO Databases

MasterFILE Premier
Academic Search Premier

Primary Search

Professional Development Collection

MAS Ultra – School Edition

PsychInfo

ERIC

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Sociological Collection

Health Source – Consumer Edition

InfoTrac

Expanded Academic ASAP

ProQuest

Career and Technical Education

Grolier Encylopedia Online

First Search

ECO

WorldCat

Audio-Visual Materials

Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVD's, CD's, filmstrips, and slides are all audio-visual materials. At the Hartfield Library, many of our audio-visual materials are DVDs and videos. The audio-visual materials are located on the first floor, in room LB 102. The titles below may be of interest to students in the Early Childhood Education Program.

• Career Encounters: Early Childhood Education, AV LB 1139.23 .C37
• A World of Diversity, AV HM 258 .W67
• How Adults Support Children at Planning Time, AV LB 1732.5 .H53 H6
• How Adults Support Children at Work Time, AV LB 1732.5 .H53 H6
• How Adults Support Children at Recall Time, AV LB 1732.5 .H53 H6
• P.A.N.D.A.: Prevent Abuse and Neglect through Dental Awareness, AV RD 94 .P36

Internet Web Sites

Internet sites are becoming increasingly useful.  Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations offer connections to information such as articles, bibliographies, and job search engines. A few such useful web sites are listed below. Please be aware that electronic addresses do change frequently. If an address listed below becomes obsolete, use an Internet search engine like Yahoo or Google to find the new address for the organization.

1. http://www.eric.ed.gov

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

ERIC is a national system designed to provide users with resources and information on education.  ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present.   

2. http://www.umaine.edu/eceol

Early Childhood Education On Line

This website is maintained by the University of Maine and offers links to many other early childhood education web sites, including: children and developmental guidelines, issues in early childhood settings, diversity, advocacy for children, observation and assessment, professional development, curriculum and environments, and early childhood education and the Internet.

3. http://www.naeyc.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

This site provides an online catalog of books related to early childhood education and information on the following areas: parents, professional development, affiliate resources, accreditation, and conferences.