Liberal Studies

Searching for TRC Materials using OneSearch

• From the Library homepage, select Advanced Search.
• Type in your search term(s) and select Books as your Material Type. Click Search.
• On the left side of the page, use the limiters to narrow the Location to Teacher Resource Center. Click Apply Filters.

Searching for TRC Materials using CLCD

• Start with the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
• Make sure to change the default from 'Universe of Books' to 'CSU Fresno'
• Type in your search term(s) and use any of the below limiters to narrow your search results
• From the results page, click on any item you are interested in
• Click on 'Check the Library's Catalog' where you will be able to see the item's availability, call number, and location

Books written for children and young adults, including nonfiction, picture, folklore, fiction, nursery rhymes, biographies, Spanish language books, and “big” (oversized) books.

The TRC collects the winners and honorable mentions for the following children’s literature awards:

Elementary and secondary textbooks, teacher’s editions, resource books, etc.

Most of the TRC’s Kindergarten -12th grade textbooks are teacher’s editions. A teacher’s edition usually includes the corresponding student edition and teaching activities for each lesson in the student edition. At the Kindergarten – 8th grade level, most TRC textbooks have been adopted by the state of California, meaning there is a correlation between their content and the suggested content in Content Standards for California Public Schools. California does not adopt 9th – 12th grade (high school) textbooks. Occasionally the TRC receives textbook donations that include the full array of items made available by textbook publishers. These “textbook kits” include the teacher’s edition and may include manipulatives, videocassettes, audiocassettes, transparencies, assessment tools, suggested homework assignments, etc., all of which are related to material presented in the teacher’s edition.

Listings of children’s literature, activity books, picture books, pattern books, etc.

A bibliography is a listing of items on a particular topic; it includes all of the information needed to locate the items. Bibliographies save time. For instance, many teachers have students who read far below their present grade level. If a student is in the 6th grade, but is reading at the 3rd grade level, the teacher might like to provide the student with books that have a 6th grade interest level and a 3rd grade reading level. Finding this particular type of book in a library can be very time consuming. Bibliographies resources, however, such as TeachingBooks.net, make locating the materials less time-consuming.

Locally produced bibliographies include Book Activities Index (activities for particular children’s and young adult books), Activity Books (more than 2,500 activity books grouped by subject areas such as math, science, special education, physical education, etc.), and Recent Acquisitions (newly acquired and processed curriculum and juvenile titles).