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Teaching Materials Center and Policies
The Teaching Materials Center (TMC), located just beyond the current periodical shelves on Floor 1, serves faculty and students in all areas of teacher education as well as other library patrons who have use for its materials. The TMC contains a representative collection of instructional materials including: - textbooks and textbook support materials
- books for children and young adults
- media of many types
- other non-book materials
These materials are geared for use with children and young adults from pre-school through grade twelve.
Materials for teachers' professional use include: - activity books (TMC 370's)
- curriculum guides and resource units (TMC 370's)
- curriculum development materials
- publishers' catalogs
- state and national standards
- teacher resource web sites
Floor 1 has the library's collection of children's magazines, professional education journals, books, and reference materials in education.
A unique collection in the TMC is the Opie Collection of Children's Literature, reproductions of early children's books on microfiche. The Opie Collection is searchable through the Milner Catalog.
How to Find TMC Materials Materials in the TMC are accessible in the Milner Catalog , the library's online catalog, and in the TMC paper card catalog by author, title, subject, and usually by series or publishers. To access materials by format (videotapes in the TMC for example) ask at the Floor 1 desk for a list of TMC holdings of nonprint collections or check the Teaching Materials Center Resources pages.
Circulation Periods for TMC Materials Most materials may be checked out for two weeks. Easy books have a one-week circulation period.
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY MILNER LIBRARY COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY I. DISCIPLINE/DEPARTMENT: Teaching Materials Center II. LIBRARIAN: Roslyn Wylie III. PROGRAMMATIC INFORMATION A. Subject Boundaries The Teaching Materials Center collects resources in a wide variety of subjects and formats. Social studies, language arts, spelling, handwriting, reading, science, mathematics, health, business education, industrial technology, family and consumer science, English, geography, and history are examples of the subjects included in the collection. Multicultural materials, bilingual materials in Spanish, as well as some career and adult education materials, are also collected.
B. Kinds of Programs or User Needs Supported - Degree Programs. B.S. in Education, M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction, M.S. in Reading, M.S. in Instructional Technology and Design, Post-Baccalaureate Graduate Certificate for Alternative Route to Secondary Teacher Certificate, Ed. D in Curriculum and Instruction. B.A., B.S. in English Education, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English with an Emphasis in Children's Literature. Teacher education sequences in all subject areas and departments.
Collection Support. The Teaching Materials Center provides a collection of print and nonprint materials which support the courses and programs offered by the College of Education and all departments offering teacher education sequences, including methods courses, practica, and clinical experiences. The TMC also serves the children's and young adult literature courses offered by the English Department. The Center collects materials for use with young people birth through grade 12, as well as textbooks, activity books, and other professional materials for teachers of these age groups.
In view of the purposes above, the Teaching Materials Center has no specific subject boundaries.
Clientele. Students and faculty of Illinois State University are the primary users of the Teaching Materials Center. Students in Teacher Education classes and English make heaviest use of the TMC, but others seeking basic introductions to all subjects find TMC materials helpful.
Because the Teaching Materials Center is the largest of its kind in the area and one of the largest in the state, area teachers and student teachers are frequent patrons of the collection. Illinois Wesleyan faculty and students also use the materials in the TMC. Children of ISU faculty and staff, University High School students and community patrons also use our materials.
C. Interdisciplinary Information
Other Subject Collections in Milner Related to This Discipline. In its role as a model school library and professional collection for teachers of all subjects, the Teaching Materials Center cuts across all subject areas. There are related materials, particularly pedagogical materials for grades 7-12, in nearly all other areas of the library.
Special Collections on 6th Floor has a substantial number of children's books, including the collections donated by author Lois Lenski and collector Will Johnson, 19th century children's magazines, the historical textbook collection, juvenile circus materials, and the Taimi Ranta Collection.
Area and/or Special Studies Programs. None.
Other Librarians Involved with This Subject.
Psychology: Bruce Stoffel
Sharon Naylor: Education and Special Education
Other subject librarians: all, on occasion, as appropriate
Other Comments. None.
IV. MODIFIERS
A. Geographical Publication sources: Special emphasis is placed on the United States, followed by Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Spanish publishers.
Intellectual content: All areas of the world are represented. Multicultural materials are a special focus.
B. Language
Materials purchased are usually in English, except for foreign language textbooks and children's dictionaries. Materials in Spanish are selected to provide resources for the bilingual education sequence in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. A limited number of trade books in other selected languages or translations are also purchased.
C. Chronological
The majority of materials collected are of recent publishing date, although earlier trade books which remain on selection lists (i.e., Children's Catalog; Junior High School Library Catalog; Senior High School Library Catalog, etc.) or assigned reading lists are retained and replaced as necessary if in print. Ordinarily, out-of-print items are acquired only upon specific faculty request, although out-of-print gift items may be accepted according to need and projected use.
V. FORMATS A. Treatment of Subject
The TMC contains materials appropriate for children from birth through high school and, to a more limited degree, adult basic education. It also contains adult level materials for teachers' professional use.
B. Types of Materials
- Textbooks. The TMC contains a representative collection of textbooks and textbook support materials in all subject areas for kindergarten through grade twelve including some Spanish editions. It includes adult basic education, emergent literacy materials, textbook support materials, and supplementary literature texts. Emphasis in the textbook collection is on materials published within the last ten years.
- Juvenile Literature. Books appropriate for children and young adults are located in the collection. Emphasized are quality picture books, folk and fairy tales and legends, fiction for children and young adults, multicultural books, books by minority authors, and books that address social and psychological issues. Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz award winners are acquired in multiple copies. Other award winning books are collected comprehensively.
- Nonbook Materials. A collection of nonbook materials is purchased to illustrate types of materials available and to provide resources for students to use in lesson preparation. Included are: audiobooks, flashcards, games, kits, models, realia, graphic materials (study prints, pictures, maps, charts, art prints), audiocassette tapes, compact discs (sound), CD-ROM's, records, DVDs and videotapes.
The Milner Library Educational Artifacts Collection is a large collection of loanable trunks on a wide variety of topics in the social sciences and science areas. Twenty-one bird and mammal taxodermic specimens are a part of the TMC collection. The Artifacts Collection is appropriate for P-Adult audiences.
Power and Beauty II is a traveling exhibition of African art objects from the African Art collection at ISU that includes supplementary teacher materials.
This collection is most appropriate for grades 7-adults.
- Children's Periodicals. A small number of children's periodicals are collected to support curricular needs.
- Professional Collection. The professional collection includes materials for a number of teacher uses. Teacher activity books and curriculum planning materials are heavily used items and are collected in all subject areas and grade levels. Current publisher catalogs, sent free, are retained. The Kraus Curriculum Development Library is an extensive source of curriculum guides, frameworks, and standards for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Kraus microfiche is available from 1983 to 2001. KCDL Online provides citation information from 1983 to present and full text documents from 2001 to present.
- Reference Collection. Reference sources such as children's literature indexes and bibliographies are located in the general Floor One Reference Collection, but are selected and purchased by the TMC.
- TMC Reference Collection. Reference materials published specifically for a PreK-12 audience is a new collection for the TMC. Materials include general encyclopedias, specific subject encyclopedias and reference works. Also found in TMC Reference are educational standards for state, national and educational accrediting agencies.
- Internet Resources. "Teacher Resource Web Sites," located on the Milner web site, is an annotated list of general education and specific subject-area URL's for preschool through Grade 12 students and teachers. "Teacher Resource Web Sites" links to the TMC web page. The TMC web page lists unique resources found in the TMC.
C. Exclusions
College level textbooks are not acquired. Books about educational research, theory, or history are not acquired by TMC, but are located in the general education collection. Popular mass-market books may be included if the titles appear on the Reading Teacher's "Children's Choices" annual list, etc.
VI. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
A. Formal Agreements Milner Library participates in the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO), whose mission is to foster the sharing of Illinois library resources. ILLINET Online, a union catalog, contains over 8 million bibliographic records and holdings of over 22 million volumes for nearly 800 libraries in Illinois. Members may borrow and lend materials freely and rapidly with little or no direct cost to library users. The library is also a member of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP), which purchases and shares materials on a statewide basis.
B. Area Resources Local public libraries offer complementary materials.
Below is a list of institutions that may be consulted by scholars of this institution: - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
- Northern Illinois University (DeKalb)
- Eastern Illinois University at Charleston
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
VII. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
A. Designated Areas of Excellence The TMC is one of the largest and most active curriculum centers in Illinois. Because Illinois State University is the oldest such institution in the Midwest, the TMC has had many years to develop a deep, comprehensive collection. The children's literature collection is particularly strong.
B. Other Considerations The TMC is purchasing, on standing order, several units of microfiche per year of The Opie Collection of Children's Literature. The Opie Collection, owned by British children's literature scholars Peter and Iona Opie, is now housed in the Bodleian Library and consists of more than 20,000 bound volumes, of which 800 titles were published before 1800. It is a comprehensive tool for research in the history of children's literature. The Opie Collection of Children's Literature is cataloged and can be located in ILLINET Online.
VIII. SELECTION TOOLS A. For Retrospective Purchases Children's Catalog
Elementary School Library Collection: A Guide to Books and Other Media
Junior High School Library Catalog
Senior High School Library Catalog
B. For Current Publications Booklist
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Horn Book Magazine
School Library Journal
Multicultural Review
Subject specific journals, such as:
Science and Children
Social Education
Reading Teacher
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Teaching Children Mathematics
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Language Arts
Return to Subject Resources: Teaching Materials REW 1/94 Rev. 7/02 Rev. 6/05
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