resource for librarians and teachers of esol;

Resource for Resource for Librarians and Librarians and

Teachers of ESOL; Teachers of ESOL;

Resource for Resource for Librarians and Librarians and

Teachers of ESOL; Teachers of ESOL;

English as a Second Language English as a Second Language Lending LibraryLending Library

About the Collection…• Collection organized in 1995• Owned by Kansas State Department of

Education• Funding provided in part by the U.S.

Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs, Title VII grant

• Housed at William Allen White Library, Emporia State University

About the Collection…• Purpose of the collection

– Provide materials for teaching English to speakers of other languages

– Provides resources for bilingual, multi-cultural, and migrant education

About the Collection…• Contains over 3,836 ESOL/BE titles

including:– Textbooks & teachers’ editions– Bi-lingual books– Children’s fiction– Games– Audio & video tapes in English and over 30

languages– Curriculum development resources

ESOL Lending Library

ESOL Lending Library

Languages Represented

• Albanian (4)• Amharic (2)• Arabic (22)• Bengali (22)• Chinese (70)• French (23)• German (17)• Hebrew (2)• Hmong (19)• Italian (2)• Japanese (25)• Khmer (8)• Korean (17)• Lao (4)

• Panjabi (13)• Persian (6)• Portuguese (4)• Russian (8)• Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) (5)• Serbo-Croation (Roman) (5)• Spanish (335)• Tagalog (3)• Tamil (3)• Thai (5)• Turkish (5)• Urdu (26)• Vietnamese (53)

How to find them…• Search the library catalog at

Emporia State University• http://whitelib.emporia.edu/

Select ‘Advanced Search’

Select ‘Subject’ field and enter language

Select ESOL Collection from the ‘Collection Location’

Search Results

Popular Searches• Bilingual books (subject)• Dictionaries (subject)• Games (subject)• Puzzles (keyword)

Now what?• Interlibrary loan request• Check them out if enrolled at

– Kansas Regents Colleges– Flint Hills Technical College

• Or obtain a – ESU Kansas Resident Card

What do you think?• Is this a valuable resource?• Do you anticipate using it, or have

you already used it?

Contact• Beth Hanschu, ESU ESOL Collection

Management– 620-341-5055– bhanschu@emporia.edu

• Phyllis Farrar, KS Dept. of Ed World Languages and English as a Second Language Program Consultant– 785-296-1891– pfarrar@ksde.org