• 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 College of Graduate and Professional Students 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.

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.

Do you need books or articles from Simpson Library but don’t want to make the trip? Items from Simpson can be delivered to the CGPS Stafford Library. Please use ILLIAD to place your requests.

Not finding what you need at UMW Libraries? Place an InterLibrary Loan (ILL) request via ILLIAD and we will get it for you from another library.

Need a video camera for your project?  Flip video cameras are now available at the CGPS Stafford Library!

The CGPS Stafford Library is now on Facebook.  If you would like to follow us, click on the Facebook logo.

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