The Scholars' Lab is located on the 4th floor (West wing) of Alderman Library. Alderman Library is building #1 on this map. All Scholars' Lab events are free and open to all. No registration is required.

ALDERMAN LIBRARY GRADUATE ROOM
This announcement is from our good friends in Alderman Library where most of the print books focused on education are located.

On August 22nd, Alderman Library opened a new room for graduate students. The space is located on the 3rd floor and contains two 4-seat study tables, three individual study tables, a number of comfortable chairs, and laptop tables. Shelves along the walls will be assigned to interested grad students and lockers are available for short term storage needs. Contact Warner Granade (granade@virginia.edu) if you are interested in shelf space. Locker keys will circulate from the service desk in the 3rd Floor Central Reading Room.

The Graduate Student Conference Room (Room 310) is located at the back of the Grad Reading Room. The Grad Conference Room will be reserved for Library use until 1pm. After 1pm and on weekends it is available for reservation by graduate students only. Small study groups or presentations, single office hours, and other meetings are welcome to reserve this space. We cannot accept long-term or multiple bookings. The Grad Conference Room can be entered via the Grad Student Reading Room or the 3New Stacks. For larger meetings please ask attendees to enter via the 3New Stacks entrance.

For more information on the room and to reserve the Grad Conference Room please see the Graduate Student Reading Room guide. This space is for graduate students and their guests only. All grad students are welcome, regardless of school or college.

IES REPORT
A new report shows the annual growth in receptive vocabulary and math performance of children who received preschool special education services

The report, A Longitudinal View of the Receptive Vocabulary and Math Achievement of Young Children with Disabilities, was released by the National Center for Special Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences.

The selected findings include:

• As a group, growth on measures of receptive vocabulary and math skills of children who received preschool special education services decelerated, or slowed down, as the children got older.

• At age 3, children with a speech or language impairment had a significantly higher mean on the receptive vocabulary measure than children with a developmental delay, and this gap persisted at age 10.

• At age 3, the children with a speech or language impairment had significantly higher mean scores on the math skills measure than children with autism or a developmental delay. The gap between scores for children with speech or language impairments and children with a developmental delay persisted at age 10. However, children with autism caught up to children with a speech or language impairment by age 10.

CLIC WORKSHOP

TOPIC: Finding Full Text Journal Articles
WHEN: August 29,30,31 and September 1, 2
TIME: 10am-11am OR 3pm-4pm
    You need only attend one of the workshops above.
LOCATION: In the CLIC, 3rd floor of Ruffner
DESCRIPTION: This workshop will explain:

• how to select the best library databases to search
• how you can access these library databases from off-Grounds (read home, coffee shop, Bermuda!)
• how to effectively search these databases
• how to select the best journals
• where Google Scholar fits into research (and it does!)
• what you can find on publishers web sites of value to you

NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Sage Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social & Behavioral Research, 2nd ed.
Call Number :H 62 .T244 2010 (handbook area)
Table of Contents: TOC
List of all Handbooks in the CLIC & Tables of Content

NEW ED WEEK REPORT
E-LEARNING for Special Populations is the latest in a series of special reports from Education Week designed to highlight the progress made in the e-learning arena, as well as the administrative, funding, and policy barriers that some experts say are slowing the growth of this form of education.

This new report shows the barriers that exist for greater participation among special populations as well as the benefits and drawbacks of online education for these groups of students.

You can read the full report online, or download the complete digital edition . You can access the other reports in the series here.

To access these special reports, you need to either use a computer on-Grounds , or if you are off-Grounds, use your proxy account or UVa Anywhere on your computer.

PRESIDENT SULLIVAN
"... It’s very important to keep library materials here and accessible, even for scholars who are in fairly esoteric areas. There’s a reason that the heart of the Academical Village, the Rotunda, was the library in Jefferson’s plan. You can’t deliver a state-of-the-art education these days without adequate technology and without an adequate library." --2011 Summer, Interview about "The State of the University."
Photo by Luca DiCecco

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Go to the following web site to reset or change any of your passwords.

CHECK IT OUT!
The CLIC librarians are pleased to announce the new self check out machine has arrived. Please use it to check out books from the CLIC's Children's Book collection.

If there is an electrical failure that causes the self check machine to malfunction, please use the paper-based check-out system forms. The forms are on the front of the self check machine. Put the completed forms in the box on the door of the librarian's office, 304C in the CLIC.

  NEWSLETTER
Click here to read the current and previous issues of the Education Services newsletter produced by the CLIC librarians, Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman, to support digital scholarship and research.