• Subject Librarian

  Paul Boger
  Phone: 540-286-8066
  Email: pboger@umw.edu
  Office: CGPS Stafford Library

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• See Also

  • CGPS Stafford Library
  • CGPS Writing Center
  • Children’s Literature Research Guide
  • UMW M.Ed. Program
  • UMW Stafford Campus

Welcome to the Subject Guide for students studying education at the Stafford Campus of the University of Mary Washington.

Please use the tabs at the top of the screen to navigate to different areas of education and library related information. If you need to research an education topic, click the Articles tab at the top of the screen.

Use the other tabs to view the virtual new bookshelf, watch video tutorials on how to use the Libraries’ databases, or browse a collection of important websites.

When searching for books in the online catalog, you will use the Recall button ONLY if the item you want is currently checked-out.  The Recall button does not allow you to place a request for books held at the other campus and it does not allow you to hold library books that are available on the shelves.

If you forget your Illiad password, please contact the UMW Libraries for assistance.  We can reset your password and help you gain access to the Illiad system.

Many databases will allow you to email articles directly from the databases to your personal email addresses.  If you choose to use this handy feature, be sure to check your email account to verify that these database emails have arrived in your email inboxes.  Network issues, web traffic, and spam filters will occassionally disrupt the delivery of database emails.  So be sure you have received your database emails before exiting a database.

The CGPS Stafford Library has a small collection of fiction and nonfiction children’s literature that is located at the end of the book collection by the windows.  The CGPS Stafford Library collects the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Awards.

If you want to see if the UMW Libraries owns a journal, magazine, or newspaper, then search the Journal Finder.  The Journal Finder will search the UMW Libraries online and print collections to see if your publication is available within the University of Mary Washington Libraries system.

Most of the UMW Libraries’ databases and electronic journals are licensed for use by the current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Mary Washington. To comply with the requirements mandated by these database vendors, UMW must identify each user by requiring users to login to the UMW system via a proxy server.

When you click on the name of a database or another restricted library resource, you will be required to enter your Novell username and password.  This is the same username and password used to login to UMW email and Blackboard.

For a more detailed explanation on how to access the UMW Libraries’ databases from off-campus, please see our “Using Databases from Off-campus” website.

In a peer-reviewed journal, the articles are all written by experts–usually professors or scholars in the field–and have been evaluated by an editorial board of scholars. In other words, the articles are written for scholars, by scholars, and judged by “jury” of the author’s “peers.” Such articles may also be called “scholarly,” “refereed” or “academic.” Here’s a chart with more criteria for determining whether an article is peer-reviewed. If you have nagging questions about whether it’s okay to use an article for a particular assignment, ask your professor.

Zotero is a free, downloadable plug-in that works specifically with the Firefox web-browser.  Zotero allows users to collect, manage, and cite research materials directly from the UMW Libraries’ databases, the UMW Libraries’ book catalog, and from a variety of internet sources.  Zotero also allows you to create automatic bibliographies and in-text citations using a variety of different style guides – including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

If you need to look at completed EDCI 589 and 590 Projects, just ask at the CGPS Library Circulation Desk.  The 589/590 research projects are filed behind the Circulation Desk.  Student are free to browse the collection or you can ask the library staff for assistance in locating a specific project.

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