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Equity, Diversity and Education Library

A comprehensive education library dedicated to equity and diversity, located within the School of Education, gives patrons direct access to education tools and resources reflecting the School's commitment to social justice and the preparation of educators fully informed about issues and curriculum resources for educating diverse students in grades Kindergarten through 12.

Hours
The library is open:
Monday – Thursday:  9:30am–7:00pm
Friday:  9:30am–5:00pm.

The library closes each day from 12:30 until 1:30 for lunch, and there are no weekend hours.

Contact Information
Equity, Diversity and Education Library
School of Education Room 344
Campus Box 249
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0249

Phone: (303) 492-3359
Email: educlib@colorado.edu

Current Staff
Director: Suzanne Sawyer-Ratliff
Doctoral Research Assistants: TBA
Undergraduate Student Assistants: TBA

Checkout Policies
All library patrons are asked to complete a registration card providing their current contact information for the privilege of checking out materials from the library.

Most materials may be checked out for a two-week period with a one-week renewal opportunity. Some collections have more restricted checkouts, and the closed reserve policy is the same as Norlin Library’s with a 2-hour checkout period, or as stipulated by faculty and instructors.

Services
Faculty members and instructors may schedule classes in the library, reserve the in house Mac-PC 8 machine computer lab, place materials on reserve, and request flexible hours to coordinate with specific classes being taught and to accommodate students working outside the university classroom. The extended hours offer support to the evening classes, which are often attended by practicing teachers, and to the School of Education’s student teachers. Many teacher education and graduate students, along with practitioners “discover” the library as they concentrate on meeting the unique educational needs of English Language Learners, and culturally, racially and ethnically diverse, gay/lesbian and/or special education students. In addition to providing a variety of professional, methodological and “hands-on” curriculum materials, the staff offers a helpful, individualized approach to library research.  They also serve as a bridge in assisting and challenging library patrons to investigate more formal research libraries and to become self sufficient and effective in online searching.

History of the Library
In 1983, the School of Education and the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education combined their separate library collections to form the Bilingual/Special Education Lab. The collection has expanded with additions provided by BUENO Center grant contributions, School of Education purchases, regular donations from School of Education faculty members (notably, Dr. Leonard Baca, Dr. Philip Langer and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Marc Swadener), BUENO Center staff, and an ongoing appeal to publishers for materials. A 1988 grant from the Women's Educational Equity Act Program provided funding for a comprehensive Gender Equity Collection. In 1992, the Bilingual/Special Education Lab and the School of Education's Curriculum Library merged to form the Equity, Diversity and Education Library. The merger more than doubled the volume of the holdings. The establishment of a software review center, in 2003, added to the library 250 educational software programs donated by various publishers. Steadily, over the years, the holdings have grown with substantial donations from Dr. Roberta Flexer, Dr. Stephen Hodge, Dr. Michael Kalk, Dr. Verne Keenan, Dr. Richard Kraft, Dr. Stan Ratliff and the Women’s Studies Department. In 2005, the library was honored to receive the complete professional collections of Associate Vice Chancellor Ofelia Miramontes (second language learning and bilingual special education), Dr. Nick Peressini (mathematics) and Dr. Ernest House (education policy and evaluation). In this current year, once again, the generosity of The BUENO Center for Multicultural Education brought to the collection $2000 worth of testing instruments from a U.S. Department of Education special education grant and $5000 from a Colorado Department of Education grant for the acquisition of materials to assist present and future teachers in educating diverse students in grades K-12.

Online Resources
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