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CHAPTER 12:

SPECIALIZED COLLECTIONS

This chapter describes several specialized Library collections.

 

 

 

Career Information Collection: These books describe education and scholarship opportunities, explain various careers, and show you how to write resumes and prepare for job interviews. This collection is shelved by the Atlas collection on the first floor of the Library; ask for directions at the Reference Desk if needed. 
 

College and University Catalog Collection: Though several printed college and university catalogs from the Northwest are kept in the reference area, the main source for college and university catalogs is the website: http://www.collegesource.org/home.asp.  In addition to catalogs, this site includes course listings, maps of campuses, and profiles of schools. It can be accessed from the Library's Articles, Databases link under the "Databases by Name" page or through the "Browse A-Z list" under CollegeSource (college catalogs).

 

Special Collections: houses research materials that are unique, rare, or fragile.  Most of the books and other materials in Special Collections relate to Idaho, but the department holds the library’s rare book collection as well.  The main components of Special Collections are:

  • Rare books

  • The Idaho Collection (books, periodicals, and documents relating to Idaho history and culture, and books by Idaho authors)

  • Manuscripts (papers and records of individuals and organizations important to Idaho history)

  • Photo collections (aerial photos of Idaho, negatives from the Idaho Statesman, and other photo collections)

  • University archives (records and publications of Boise State University and its predecessors going back to its founding in 1932 as Boise Junior College)

The materials contained within Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections reading room.  Special Collections is located on the 2nd floor of the Library, Room 222, next to the Frank Church Room.  Special Collections is open Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm. 

Curriculum Resource Center (CRC):  This department is located on the 2nd floor of the Library and houses educational materials for preschool through high school, as well as college/adult level non-book materials. The largest of these consists of the books and materials needed to support the Boise State University’s teacher training program.

The Curriculum Materials for preschool through 12th grade include textbooks, audio, video, charts, posters, games, lesson plans, models and kits. Many of these items use a unique classification system where each call number includes subject, grade level (Elementary or Secondary), and publisher. A typical call number might look like this:

      

                  SOC. ST.                                     ENGLISH

                  Elem. & Sec.           or                 Sec. (11)

                  McGraw-Hill                                 Random

      

Unlike books in the general collection, several CRC items can have the same call number. For this reason, to locate an item in the CRC collection, you need both the call number and the title of the item.

 

Some of these materials, as well as fiction and non-fiction written for children and young adults, are organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification System, widely used in public schools and libraries.      

 

The CRC also houses the college-level non-book materials including movies, plays, and operas on VHS and DVD, books on CD and audiocassette, and a music collection including thousands of compact discs. These collections are organized using the Library of Congress system. 

 

 
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