MMERC Midwest Migrant Educational Resource Center

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MMERC Midwest Migrant Educational Resource
Center

• Located at
• Hamline University
• St. Paul, MN

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MMERCs Mission
To promote excellence in education and graduation
for migrant children by supporting teachers with
library loan materials.
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MMERC Materials

• Over 15,000 materials to support teachers
• Materials for all skill areas from K-12
• Large collection of ESL materials
• Many bilingual, multicultural and Spanish text
  materials.

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Who Has Access to MMERC?

• Partner State migrant teachers
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Montana
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• There is no cost to the school district for this
  service.

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Loan Guidelines

• Loan period is 5 weeks
• Materials for school use only
• Order limit - 1 unit box per teacher
• All materials are shipped/returned via UPS
• Save original boxes for return shipping
• Submit completed evaluation forms
• Save put prepaid label on returns

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How to Order MMERC Materials

• Printed catalog/Fax
• E-Mail
• Phone
• On-Line Web Catalog

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Ordering via Printed Catalog

• Select items from catalog/supplements
• Complete MMERC order form (include title cat
  / shipping info)
• Fax order 651-645-9490

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MMERC Order Form
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Ordering via E-Mail

• Submit the following information
• School name shipping address
• Your name position (e.g. class tchr, ESL tchr)
• Phone number
• Date to receive materials by
• Catalog number (2-part number) title of each
  item
• Send to mmerc_at_hamline.edu

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Ordering via Phone

• Please limit phone orders to 10 items or less
  (1-877-891-6379 toll-free).

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Ordering via On-Line Web Catalog

• MMERCs web catalog is located at
• http//mmerccatalog.hamline.edu/

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Opening Page of the On-Line Web Catalog
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Searching the Web Catalog

• Search options
• Key word
• Title
• Author
• Subject
• ISBN

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Searching the Web Catalog

• Use letter abbreviation in key word search for
  grade level
• ECh (early childhood)
• Pri (primary)
• Int (intermediate)
• MiS (middle school)
• HgS (high school)
• Adt (adult)
• PEd (parent education)
• TEd (teacher education)

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Sample Search...
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Search Results Info

• Clicking on
• A Title full description
• put item in bookbag
• Bookbag shows contents
• Preview to print
• Copies no. of copies currently available
• Reserve order online (requires patron bar code)
• Underlined items (active links) more
  information related to that item
• Tip Use icons in bottom menu bar for moving
  between catalog windows (not browsers ? or ?
  arrows).

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Search Results...
? Note this is page 1 of 7 results ?
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Full Description
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Copies Available
Reserve means to ORDER
all 3 copies of this material are In
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Bookbag Contents
Bookbag contents will be lost after closing out
of the web catalog
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Previewof Bookbag

• Additional order options
• Fax Bookbag items to MMERC
• Copy/Paste Bookbag items into e-mail

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Reserve (Order) Window
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Note these 3 pieces of information must be
entered for each material ordered
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Call MMERC for a patron barcode
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We look forward to serving you! Have
questions? Call us toll free at 1-877-891-6379