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Faculty of Education1. The facultyThe Faculty of Education operates across three campuses - Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula. The faculty offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs concerned with the professional education of teachers and educators in other fields, such as health, business and industrial training, and with research into the many-facetted ways in which education is conducted in society and with which education, society and individuals interact with one another. The main emphasis in the faculty is on teaching in Australia, with a particular emphasis on Victoria, which is where the majority of graduates will practice. The faculty has over 4,365 students, of whom 406 are Higher Degree Research students and 2,356 are postgraduate coursework students. There are 218 academic staff in the faculty. Research at the Peninsula campus is concentrated on primary and early childhood education areas, and includes curriculum studies on art, physical education, mathematics, music, science, teaching techniques, philosophy of education, multiculturalism, and computers in education. The Peninsula campus has an historically strong collection in education, a result of having been constituted originally as a teacher training college, the Frankston Teachers' College. More recently studies in sport and outdoor recreation and environmental education have been developed at Peninsula. At the Gippsland campus, research concentrates on primary and secondary education areas, including Curriculum studies on art, literacy, physical education, mathematics, music, science, teaching techniques, philosophy of education and computers in education. Research at the Clayton campus focuses on adult vocational education and training, curriculum in mathematics and science teaching, child development, special education, educational administration and second language acquisition. Faculty Research Centres include Institute of Human Development and Counselling - offers programs in special education, counselling and child and adolescent education and development. Programs for professionals include basic and advanced training in educational and psychological assessment, curriculum development for special needs, and counselling skill training. It offers formal programs in these areas. It incorporates the Dinah and Henry Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children, the Elwyn Morey Child Study Centre and the Stress Management Clinic. MCRIE (Monash Centre for Research in International Education) - conducts research that enhances understanding of the causes, processes and outcomes of the internationalisation of education. PDI (Professional Development Institute) - offers specialist professional development programs to teachers, principals, school personnel and school councillors, undertakes contract work for government, educational agencies and professional bodies, and provides a range of adult education programs. For further information:
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationThe collection of material purchased by the Faculty of Education is distributed between three campuses - Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula, each reflecting the special needs of the programs run at each campus. Material of relevance to staff and students of the Faculty of Education in the areas of child development, child psychology and educational psychology is also purchased by the Department of Psychology (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) and is located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library, and in the Gippsland, Caulfield, Peninsula and Berwick libraries. The Department of Psychological Medicine (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services) also acquires material in the areas of child and adolescent psychiatry, mental disorders and psychotherapy, and this is located in the Monash Medical Centre library. There is significant overlap in the material purchased by the Faculty of Education, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychological Medicine. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of teaching courses, (eg curriculum support materials for secondary teaching in areas such as science and English are classified with the subject concerned) there is also considerable material of relevance on all campuses. These areas are covered in the collection development policies appropriate to the discipline. b. LanguageMost of the material acquired is in English, although some foreign-language materials are also purchased to support the teaching of languages other than English at the Clayton and Gippsland campuses. c. Classification usedMaterial is classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Some parts of the collection, such as children's literature resources on the Peninsula and Gippsland campuses, are not classified, rather arranged alphabetically by author. d. FormatsNo format is excluded, and some units rely heavily on media such as DVDs. The collections of material used to support classroom teaching, by their nature, consist of media such as pictures, kits, slides, sound recordings, musical instruments etc. as appropriate. e. Size of the collectionEstimated current size of the monograph collection : There are estimated to be approximately 35,000 volumes at Clayton, 10,000 at Peninsula and 11,000 at Gippsland directly relevant to students and staff of the faculty. The teaching materials collections are estimated to contain 18,500 (Peninsula) and 8,000 (Gippsland) items respectively. Number of print serial titles received : Approximately 230 current serial titles are received, with half of these being located in the Matheson Library and the rest divided between Peninsula and Gippsland. Special print collections include a working collection of modern juvenile fiction and picture story books, with the award-winning children's books from Australia, United Kingdom and United States. This material supports the teaching of language and literature on the Peninsula and Gippsland campuses. The collections at the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses both contain a collection of current material to support curriculum design and the planning of lessons. These collections cover a wide range of media, so that students are able to use other than print resources effectively. On the Clayton campus, materials to support classroom teaching are not purchased by the library. Tthe Faculty of Education Library & Media Resources (LMR) supports this function. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Education is spent on these resources. These include Indexing and abstracting services :
Fulltext databases / electronic journal suites :
Subject gateways :
33% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Education is spent on serials and 19% on electronic resources. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources of primary interest to the faculty cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification 150-158,( Psychology), as well as 370-379, (Education). The main areas of collecting for the Faculty of Education are detailed below.
The Matheson Library collects extensively in the areas of secondary education and adult vocational education and training. Special emphasis is placed on material relating to education in Australia, particularly in government policy, economic and social aspects and history of education. Strong collections are available in the areas of special education, educational philosophy and global education (education in developing countries). The Gippsland Library collects in the area of childhood development and primary and secondary education, with an emphasis on educational administration and outdoor education and also holds an extensive collection of curriculum materials to support classroom teaching. The Peninsula Library collects in the areas of early childhood and primary education. Within the above, there is a focus on literacy, teaching techniques, child development and exceptionality. The following curriculum areas are also of special interest: art, science (particularly the environment), music, multiculturalism, mathematics, physical education and health. Gippsland and Peninsula libraries hold extensive collections of curriculum resources relevant to their respective areas of teaching primary and secondary, (Gippsland) and early childhood and primary, (Peninsula). This collection includes realia, musical instruments, puzzles, puppets etc., kits, music CDs and cassettes, pictures, texts (including VCE resources), fiction and non-fiction children's books including the children's literature referred to in section 3e. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesRare Books collection Within the Rare Books Collection, there are several collections of relevance to students and staff of the Faculty of Education. These include a collection of mainly early 20th century textbooks used in Australian schools and the Lindsay Shaw collection of Australian juvenile fiction. This collection is formed by donation and purchase of significant Australian juvenile fiction, and is accessible via the catalogue. The collection of textbooks is not catalogued, and thus individual items cannot be located via the Monash Voyager catalogue. (Rare Books site available lib.monash.edu.au/rare/) Microform Collection:
Library & Media Resources (LMR): this Unit is located within the Faculty of Education on the Clayton campus and contains a collection of material supporting both student reading and teaching practice. It includes children's literature, posters, kits, sound recordings and videorecordings. (Education Library & Media Resources site available www.education.monash.edu.au/library/) Equipment shed : This resource is managed by the Monash and Churchill Leisure Centre and has available for hire equipment such as tents, ambu-men, skis, waterproof clothing etc. This is a very useful resource for the students studying the outdoor education course at the Gippsland Campus. Melbourne Centre for Japanese Language Education (MCJLE) Collection: This collection is located in the Matheson Library on the Clayton Campus and is operated in collaboration with Monash Centre for Japanese Language Education in the Japanes Studies Centre. The collection holds a large range of teaching materials in the vernacular to assist Japanese language teachers. (MCJLE site) Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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