• 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

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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.

By clicking the “Follow Us”  badge in the lower left corner of the research guide, you can follow the CGPS Stafford Library on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and Shelfari.  The CGPS Stafford Library uses these popular sites to communicate library news, discuss research tips, display new books, and share popular websites.

Get today’s education news directly from your UMW Libraries’ research guide!  The “Education News” widget provides you with direct links to today’s news as it happens.   Simply click the links in the widget box to access the complete articles.

Evaluating articles that you have located in a database can be difficult to evaluate.  Online articles do not always provide you with the same physical characteristics (advertisements, graphs, illustrations) that you would use to evaluate print articles.

Databases that search a variety of publications – such as magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers – will often provide you with a tab, link, or a check box that allows you to limit your search results strictly to peer-reviewed/scholarly journal articles.  Simply use these handy database features to limit your search results to the appropriate publications.

When searching for books in the online catalog, you might see the Recall button listed next to a book you are interested in.  The Recall button can be used 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.

The Recall button is only available in the UMW Libraries’ online (book) catalog.  This button is not relevant to any of the UMW Libraries’ online databases.

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.

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