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Education Subject Guide: Books
When doing your research, sometimes books are exactly what you need.
  • Books provide you with comprehensive information about your topic, providing you with an overview, background, and major theories in depth.

  • Finding books by different authors will often allow you to have many different points of view about the same subject.


  • Search for books here at Millikin's library in the online catalog Millinet.

    General books on Education:

    • Browse the following areas of the library's stacks (second floor) in the following call number ranges:
      L Education (General)
      LA - History of education
      LB - Theory and practice of education
      LC - Special aspects of education.
      LD - Individual institutions- United States
      LE - Individual institutions- America (except United States)
      LF - Individual institutions- Europe
      LG - Individual institutions- Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean Islands,
             Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands
      LH - College and school magazines and papers
      LJ - Student fraternities and societies, United States
      LT - Textbooks


      For more a more complete description of the "L" call numbers, visit the Library of Congress Catalog Directory


      Browse by subject in the online catalog:

      Sometimes one of the best ways to find books on your topic is to do some subject browsing in the Online catalog.

      There are two ways to do this easily:

      Number 1
    • Do a regular search (either Quick or Advanced) for your topic and find a book that is good for your research.
    • In the result list from the search, click on the title of the book so that you can the full record of information about it.
    • After the publication information, there is a section called "Subject LCSH".
    • This list of the subjects describes the content of the book. If one of these subject headings looks useful for your topic, click on it.
    • That will bring you to an alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog. This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.
    • Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.


    • Number 2
    • In either the Advanced or Quick search, type in the term for your search.
    • Set the Search By box to Subject or Subject Words.
    • Click search, this brings up the alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog.
    • This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.
    • Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.


    • Possible Subject Headings to use as search terms:

      bilingualism United States

      community and school

      curiculum planning

      early childhood education

      education

      education, bilingual United States

      education research

      educational change

      effective teaching

      language acquisition

      language arts

      mixed ability grouping

      multicultural education

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