EDEL 411 - Teaching Literacy K-2

Resources for EDEL 411 students, including finding children's books, searching for articles, using the Curriculum Materials Center, and more!

Library Research Guide

Why Should I Use Search It to Find Books?

Search It is our main online search tool to find books and other materials. You can get to Search It from our website; it's the search box in the middle of the page. For advice on how to search for children's books, see our Find Children's Books page

In Search It you can:

  • Search across library resources
  • Create personal search preferences
  • Save queries and individual results
  • Export search results into citation managers or emails
  • Set alerts and RSS feeds for your queries
  • Request materials we don't have
  • Tag and review items

 

What Does it Include?

Flowchart of information sources within Search It

Search It Orientation Video

Use Search It, our discovery tool, to locate books, articles, music, movies, e-books, and more. The tool returns results that can be refined by:

  • peer-reviewed journals
  • full-text resources
  • topic
  • creation date

Watch this overview of using Search It.