Faculty Resources - English - Fort Wayne - Ivy Tech Libraries at Ivy Tech Community College

The resources on this page are collected specifically for faculty and adjunct faculty members. Some of these resources may be available to students, but many will only be accessible by faculty or adjunct faculty. Please ask a librarian if you have any questions.

Library Services & Materials

The Faculty Resources Center Guide gives information about placing materials on reserve, library instruction for your students, borrowing materials from other libraries, creating a guide like this one for your classes, and more.

The Library Information Guide gathers together everything students need to know to use the library.

Faculty Center - Fort Wayne
Library Information Guide
WorldCat
Search online catalog of libraries from around the world

Resources for Teaching

Ivy Tech has a variety of resources available which can be used for instruction. Some of these may require you to be logged into My Ivy.

Films on Demand
Hundreds of educational videos on a variety of subjects. Keyword-searchable or browse broad topic categories.
NAXOS Spoken Word Library
Catalog of audiobooks, includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, political speeches, etc.

Primary Source Highlights
Teaching strategies, outstanding primary sources, lesson plans, teacher resources, and current thinking on effective classroom practice. Recommended for Educators.
Primary Source Sets
Topical list of primary sources arranged in sets with lesson plans and teacher resources. Recommended for Educators.

Professional Development

College English
A peer-reviewed journal for college teachers of English. Published six times a year.
Composition Studies
"Dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric & composition. Teaching college writing, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars." - EBSCO
College Teaching
"Interdisciplinary articles on issues related to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels; teaching philosophy and practices, teachers' roles, professional development and evaluation, incentives and commentary on articles in the journal." - EBSCO

Chronicle of Higher Education
Newspaper, published monthly. The premier source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff and administrators. Includes an archive of past issues. Recommended for educators.
ERIC (INSPIRE-EBSCO)
Index of journal articles, reports, conference papers and other materials relating to education; many peer-reviewed, many full text. Includes the What Works Clearinghouse of practices reviewed for standards of evidence. Search using standard EBSCO interface, use the direct link for advanced searching options. Recommended for research in Education at all levels.
Professional Development Collection (INSPIRE-EBSCO)
Collection of high quality journals for the education profession. Topics from early childhood to collegiate levels. Recommended for Educators.

Mobile Device Apps

The library has created a Guide to the mobile device apps that Ivy Tech students and teachers can use to search our databases for sources and read/listen/view them. The Guide also curates apps for managing studying and writing assignments. Check it out:

Mobile Device Apps Fort Wayne