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Curriculum Collection -- Other Resources -- Contacts -- Tips

The Curriculum Collection in the Townsville and Cairns libraries is intended to provide you with resources to evaluate and use during early childhood, primary and secondary school teaching experience. Students in Cairns may place a hold on Townsville books they wish to borrow, and vice versa.

The Guide to the Curriculum Collection is available on the web and will give you an overview of the collection and other sources of material. Please read this guide, as it gives you helpful information about using the collection.

If you are having difficulty locating materials for lesson preparation, please ask staff at InfoHelp for help, or contact me in the Townsville library, phone (07) 4781 4381/5500, email Helen.Hooper@jcu.edu.au, and as far as possible I will identify suitable resources for you.

Other Resources

As well as making good use of the Curriculum Collection, there are other resources available to you:

• The school library and teacher-librarian. This staff member is skilled in both aspects of their job and is ideally placed to give you help and advice.
  N.B. Please give them as much advance notice as possible if you intend to ask for their help.
• The Theme Index This JCU subject heading list indexes selected journals from the library's periodical collection in early childhood and primary education.

• The SOURCE -- a guide by subject to children's fiction, poetry and short stories from around the world with an emphasis on Australian books. See Tropicat for more information
• Internet resources. These are many and vary greatly in quality. A good starting point to teaching resources is my own homepage which includes links to a wide variety of pages (not intended to be comprehensive).
• Education Queensland's AccessClub provides access to a range of services. JCU students need a login and password; if you don't have this please contact InfoHelp. Access should be available to resources with a BLUE padlock.
  • Curriculum Exchange provides lesson plans (TIPS), site reviews (EduList) and lists of curriculum and teaching resources (Hot Topics) among other useful resources.
  • Professional topics Education Queensland Library Services compiles select lists of professional resources on topics of current interest, including online resources.

Contacts:

The InfoHelp number is 4781 5500, email infohelp@jcu.edu.au

The Education Librarian, Helen Hooper, can be contacted in the Douglas Campus Library, by phone or email.

Helen Hooper	Phone: (07) 4781 4381
Education Librarian	Fax: (07) 4781 6099
	Email: Helen.Hooper@jcu.edu.au

The Education Librarian in Cairns is Alice Logan, ext.1027.

 

DID YOU KNOW...........?

• you may borrow up to ten Curriculum Collection items in addition to ten main collection items. Tell the staff at Lending Services you are on prac
  
• many fiction books can be used to support topics - e.g. check out "The Source"
  
• Tropicat uses the subheadings
  -- Juvenile literature for nonfiction books and
  -- Juvenile fiction for fiction books
  
• the Education Librarian may be able to help you to locate resources for your teaching topic or assignment
  
• there is a Theme Index to help locate journal articles on topics for ECE and Primary level.

 

Education Resources