Course Instructor

• Name: Dr. Robert Frost
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• Office Location: Education Hall Room 421

Education Librarian

• Librarian: Paula McMillen, PhD
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• Office Location: 4th Floor, Valley Library
• Office Hours: by appointment: phone 541.737.7272
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Web Resources

American Association of Community Colleges site has a short history, directories, "fast facts" and more.

Differential characteristics of 2-year postsecondary institutions . A report produced by NCES, IES in 2007. 

 

Russell, John Dale (1949) Basic conslusions and recommendations of the President's Commission on HIgher Education . Journal of Educational Sociology, 22(8), 493-508 

 

Community College Journals

Community College Journal. OSU Libraries has a current print subscription. Call # LB2300.J8  You can request articles of interest from our print journals be sent to you through the catalog record--see the instructions here .

Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Use the OSU Libraries catalog record or the E-Journals Quicklink to access articles electronically from 1997 - current.

Community College Review. Print subscription starts with volume 1 in 1973. Call # LB2328.C57 Electronic access from 1990 - present

Community College Week. Electronic access available from 1996 - present (through OSU Libraries catalog or E-Journals.

New Directions for Community Colleges. Print subscription  at OSU Libraries starts with the first issue in 1973. Call # LB2328.N4 Electronic access is provided from 1997 to current.

Use the databases  in the "Search Tools" module to locate articles of interest (Note: you cannot search the OSU Libraries' catalog for the contents of journals, just the title) 

Check out the short online tutorials at Keeping Current to find out how to have tables of contents or search results sent to you on a regular basis.  

Need More Help?

Librarians are available by phone, e-mail and IM during most hours the library is open. See your options here .

 

 

If you need help with getting materials delivered to you from the library, contact Maureen Kelly, Extended Campus Librarian

Email: maureen.kelly@osucascades.edu

Phone: 541-322-3110 (Bend, OR)

Chat: Clibkelly via AIM, Yahoo, Meebo -- go to Ecampus page; hours vary

 

Start Your Searches Here

 

Here's the Valley Library.(See more photos here .) You can have access to all the same materials as someone  in this library--while working at a distance! Bookmark or set your home page to the OSU Libraries website to have ready access to dozens of finding tools for research information.

On the left hand side of the page, Change the View to "ECampus" to display links, under Accessing Library Materials, that provide lots of information about using all the resources available to you. 

 

Search Tools and Guides

Finding Books:

OSU Libraries Catalog provides information about items owned by the main libraries and our two branch libraries in Bend and Newport, including books, government documents, visual materials and the titles of journals we subscribe to.

Summit Catalog (Collective catalog for 30+ libraries in Oregon and Washington) lets you access even more materials through a cooperative borrowing arrangement.

 

 

Effectively searching library catalogs~

• You could do an author search using the " American Association of Community Colleges" in either the OSU Libraries catalog or the regional Summit catalog to find other publications from this group. You can use the author search option for both personal and corporate author searches in the catalogs.
• Do a subject heading search for "community colleges United States" in the OSU Libraries catalog or the Summit catalog to view a lengthy list of  additional options for searching the catalog. 
• You could of course do a keyword search using the term "community colleges" and another key concept term of interest such as "diversity" or "leadership"
• Once you've located a book you want, follow the directions here for getting it delivered to you. Remember that you can arrange to pick up and drop off books at any of the over 30 libraries in our regional consortium, the Orbis Cascade Alliance .

Finding Articles:

Professional Development Collection provides access to articles in over 300 peer reviewed education journals.

ERIC  (Education Resources Information Center) is the single largest education database, covering journals, issue digests, conference proceedings, classroom guides, etc. Many records are linked to full-text.

Education Research Complete also provides access to an extensive collection of journal material, conference papers and books. 

If you want to locate a specific journal article:

1. check our E-journals list first to see if we have electronic access to the publication for the date on which your article was published.
2. If no electronic access is available, check the OSU Libraries catalog by limiting your search to journals and then typing in the journal title to see if we have a print subscription which covers the date of your article's publication. Follow the directions here for getting materials delivered to you.
3. We can usually get articles from libraries that own a journal we don't have through our InterLibrary Loan Services . Electronic copies of articles are typically sent to you as a link in an e-mail, so be sure you regularly check your ONID e-mail account or have mail forwarded to the account you regularly use.
   

 

More Ideas: 

The Education Research Guide provides a more comprehensive view of using the OSU Libraries resources for education related information seeking.

Research Tutorial is a self-paced review of the research process. 

APA Style Tutorial Created at Harvard's graduate school of education, this online tutorial describes many of the in's and out's of using APA style for writing and citing.