Hanley Library - Curriculum Resource Center

 

 

 

 


Mission Statement:

The primary mission of Hanley Library's CRC is to support the curriculum of the education program by providing quality materials and services to pre-service teachers and education department faculty. You will find the Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) located on the second floor of the Hanley Library on the north-west side of the building near the two Educational Resource Rooms (Hanley 203 and 205).

Goals:

  • Collect and house quality P-12 curriculum materials including teacher resource books, curriculum guides and/or standards, P-12 textbooks, children's and young adult literature, and media materials (audio and visual materials intended for use in P-12 settings).
  • Communicate and promote available materials and services to pre-service teachers and education faculty, as well as to all other members of our campus community of learners.
  • Invite and welcome local educators, camp counselors, home school families, etc. as users of the CRC materials and services.
  • Collaborate with education faculty in CRC collection development.
  • Assess the CRC with the cooperation of the Library Director and Education Program Director.

Collections:

Textbooks
P-12 textbooks for the certification areas available at Pitt-Bradford.

Curriculum Guides/Courses of Study (to be developed)
Guides and courses of study on the local, state, and national level. A copy of the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and Assessment Anchors will be made available in paper format and housed on the reserve shelves at the circulation desk.

Children's and Young Adult Literature
Fiction and nonfiction books appropriate for use with grades P-12. The collection also includes Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winners as well as selected honor books.

Teaching Activity Materials
Books with sample lesson plans, specific teaching ideas, and bulletin board ideas. This material will be collected for all certification areas offered at Pitt-Bradford.

Reference Materials
This material is collected for and housed in the Library's regular reference collection.

Professional Magazines and Journals for Teachers
Current volumes of professional magazines for teachers will be housed in the CRC and will include American Biology Teacher, Creative Classroom, Instructor, Language Arts, Mathematics Teacher, Reading Teacher, Science and Children, Science Teacher, Social Education, Social Studies and the Young Learner, Teaching Children Mathematics, Teaching Pre K-8. Scholarly education journals are housed with the Library's regular periodical collection (current and bound).

Media Materials
Audio and Video materials intended to be used in P-12 settings as well as special materials such as instructional games, kits, puppets, manipulatives, etc. will be housed in the CRC. Audio and Video materials intended for a pre-service teacher audience are housed in the Library's regular AV collection.

Circulation Policy:

Pitt-Bradford faculty, staff, and students may check out circulating books, media material, and AV material. Books and audio material circulate to students for four weeks and visual material for one week. Books and audio material circulate to faculty and staff for one term and visual material for one week.

Community patrons may check out up to five items total (four weeks for books and audio material and one week for visual material). Staff, and students may renew their items by contacting the library or by using the My Account option available through Pittcat, the online catalog.

Library fine information and other regulations relating to circulation can be viewed from the library's policy page. All library material circulates through the automated library circulation system. In keeping with Hanley Library policy, reference books, special collection material, and periodicals are library use only.

Education Resource Rooms:

Hanley Library 203 Production Room
Hanley 203 contains a networked computer with color printer and an Ellison machine. The key for this room may be checked out for two hours-you must present your Pitt ID to check out the key to use the room. The key is not renewable.

Internet Resources for Education

Associations

Children's and Young Adult Literature

Lesson Plans and Resources

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