State-Adopted Teacher Edition Textbooks

Two courses this summer (May 15 through July 11, with almost 120 students) need state-adopted teacher edition textbooks for an assignment.  In the Dick Smith Library, all of these textbooks are in the Textbooks area on the lower level of the library, in the Curriculum Collection, near the end near the window. 

This week, access to the lower level will be limited at times due to air-conditioning work, and you may need to go downstairs to get a textbook for a user.  Here's some information to help you find what you need.

Students in READ 3356 will need a science or social studies teacher edition for grades K-6.  Students in READ 3351 have a broader range of subjects, but will need the teacher editions for grades 6-12 (middle school and high school).  I always ask the student to tell me specifically what grade and what subject they want.

Our online catalog is not particularly helpful in finding these books.  I've posted charts in the textbook area that line up LC categories with subject and grade levels.   Here are the first letters of call numbers for subject areas typically requested for this assignment:

D: World History, high school
E: USA History, grade 8 and high school
F: Texas History, grade 7
G: Geography, grade 6 and high school
H: Social Studies, grades K-5

MT: Music, orchestra only, high school
PC 4129: Spanish, grades 6-12

Q: Science, grades K-8
QA 107: Math, grades K-8
QA 152 - 551: Math, high school (algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, etc.)
QC-QP: Science, high school (physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy & physiology) 

RA: Health, grades K-12
S-SF: Agriculture, high school


Call numbers for state-adopted textbooks for grades K through 12 will always include "GR." and the relevant grade level(s) near the end of the call number.  Teacher editions are indicated with a "T" either at the very end of the grade level line, or after the first set of numerals in the call number.  At this point, the only subject area that still has the latter type of call number are the RAs, because the state has not adopted new textbooks in that area in over 12 years!

See the part circled in red in the example close-ups below.

 All subject areas but Health (RA)

Only Health (RA - the example shown was taken prior to new math adoptions)

Here's a little more detail about the call numbers for these books.

Parts of a Textbook Call Number (for all but RA, health):

EDUC
G
128
.N38
2016
GR. 6T* – grade level(s); T for a teacher edition*
UNIT 12 – this line is not always used; it can indicate a volume or unit number (as in this example), supplemental material, Advanced Placement (AP) texts, or additional copies (C.2, etc.)


Parts of a Textbook Call Number (for only RA, Health):

EDUC
RA
440T – indicates teacher edition*
.M44
2005
GR. 8 – grade level(s) for the adopted text
RELA – this line is not always used; it can indicate  a volume or unit number, supplemental material (as in this example), Advanced Placement (AP) texts, or additional copies (C.2, etc.)



*If there is no T, it’s a student edition.  That's NOT what students need for this assignment!  Other clues to teacher editions are that ones for elementary grades (K-5) are typically spiral bound or in notebooks.  Middle school and high school teacher editions usually have "TE" or "TWE" (teacher wraparound edition) printed near the top of the spine - you can see that in some of the photos above.

"Publication date" for periodicals and monographic serials in the catalog

Since I've been asked about this a few times now, I thought I'd write something up real quick about how "Publication date" is displayed in the library's catalog for periodicals and monographic serials.

(Monographic serials are book sets where new volumes are continuously published, a lot like periodicals.)

Sometimes you'll see discrepancies between the publication date listed in the results list and the publication date when you click into the record. For example, here are John Tarleton Quarterly and AWI Quarterly as they currently display in our results list. You'll notice that both say they were published in 2018.

When you click the titles for the Full Display, you'll get this:

As you can see, this information is different. During our Enterprise setup, there was a choice between having our Brief Display either display the very first year a periodical or monographic serial started being published (1903 for John Tarleton Quarterly or 1992 for AWI Quarterly) or display the last possible year the periodical or monographic serial might have been published. We went with the second option. Since there's no ending date for either of these publications, the current year is displayed as the publication year. Next year, both of these titles will have 2019 in their brief displays rather than 2018.

If you want to know when something was really published, you have to click title for the full display and possibly even look at the particular volume/issue you're interested in. The "Publication Info" part (first red box in the Full Display images) will give you the general publication info for the entire work, whether we own all of those volumes/issues or not. The Holdings section (second red box in the Full Display images) will give you information specific to what the library actually owns.

In the John Tarleton Quarterly example, since the only volume we own is volume 1, number 1, we can assume that the library's copy is published in 1903. If we owned other volumes, you'd have to look at the physical copies to figure out when each issue was published since in this instance our call numbers don't include the publication year. In the AWI Quarterly example, you'd have to find the particular issue you're interested in to know when it was published.

I hope this clears things up a little!

No Guest Passes During Finals

Effective Today: 

We will not be giving out guest passes until Thursday, May 10th due to finals. 

Exceptions:  If a guest user needs to register for classes or perform any other Tarleton-related business, you may issue them a guest pass. 

Let me know if you have any questions! 

Texan Card Kiosk back online

Just and FYI that the Texan Card kiosk is up and running again!

Kym

Texan Card Kiosk

The Texan Card Kiosk in the Copy Center is currently offline. The Texan Card office has been notified of the situation.