I don't come to the Education and Social Sciences library often so I soon as I got there I asked one of the librarians to help me navigate the shelves. This is how I learned that they are currently following two ways of cataloging--the Library of Congress one and a second method which I can't recall now. I spend most of the time in the main library and I rarely go to the main stacks myself. I prefer to request the book and wait until it's ready to be picked up at the circulation desk. I don't expect my students to be familiar with cataloging procedures so it would be a good idea to schedule a visit to the library before the iSearch takes place. Or it could be part of the iSearch activity itself.
The two books I was interested in were located in two different areas. Dunn et alii's Controversy in the Psychology Classroom surrounded by psychology books--not a subject that will necessarily help me with my inquiry project. Heilman's Social Studies and Diversity in Education, on the other hand, led me to several books discussing education policies and the introduction of multicultural and critical pedagogy approaches to the curriculum, a subject area that interests me. It may not be covered in my current inquiry project map, but I will definitely come back to check out some of the books I saw.
The two books I was interested in were located in two different areas. Dunn et alii's Controversy in the Psychology Classroom surrounded by psychology books--not a subject that will necessarily help me with my inquiry project. Heilman's Social Studies and Diversity in Education, on the other hand, led me to several books discussing education policies and the introduction of multicultural and critical pedagogy approaches to the curriculum, a subject area that interests me. It may not be covered in my current inquiry project map, but I will definitely come back to check out some of the books I saw.