Resource for Librarians and Teachers of ESOL;

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Resource for Librarians and Teachers of ESOL

• English as a Second Language Lending Library

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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

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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

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About the Collection

• Contains over 3,836 ESOL/BE titles including
• Textbooks teachers editions
• Bi-lingual books
• Childrens fiction
• Games
• Audio video tapes in English and over 30
  languages
• Curriculum development resources

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ESOL Lending Library
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ESOL Lending Library
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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)

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How to find them

• Search the library catalog at Emporia State
  University
• http//whitelib.emporia.edu/

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Select Advanced Search
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Select Subject field and enter language
Select ESOL Collection from the Collection
Location
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Search Results
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Popular Searches

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

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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

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What do you think?

• Is this a valuable resource?
• Do you anticipate using it, or have you already
  used it?

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Contact

• Beth Hanschu, ESU ESOL Collection Management
• 620-341-5055
• bhanschu_at_emporia.edu
• Phyllis Farrar, KS Dept. of Ed World Languages
  and English as a Second Language Program
  Consultant
• 785-296-1891
• pfarrar_at_ksde.org