Education

Databases

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides access to records for over 1,200,000 children's books (from baby board books to nonfiction and novels for young adults), more than 300,000 reviews, and information on prizes and awards that the books have won.

Education in Video

Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. It includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.

ERIC

This database contains more than 850,000 annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly RIE and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education.

Illinois School Reform Resource Locator

Provides access to and information about school reform initiatives in the state of Illinois, including local initiatives, as well as national school reform efforts at the kindergarten through grade 12 levels. Each site has been reviewed and annotated by a member of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program.

Professional Development Collection

The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information for professional educators. It includes abstract and index coverage for over 595 professional development titles and searchable full text for 516 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.

Websites

Community Resources On-Line

The "Iowa 2-1-1 Information and Referral Database" allows you to select a state (Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, or Wisconsin), county, even city to search for particular social service agencies and organizations.

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle is published online every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.