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Welcome!

Welcome to the Research Guide for students in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) program!

ECE students typically visit the NCC Library for the following information:

- assistance with choosing picture books based on different topics and subjects,

- assistance with finding research articles to use in assignments, and

- assistance with resources for creating lesson plans.

This research guide addresses all of these areas. Click on the purple tabs to the left for further information!

How to GET HELP from a LIBRARIAN

Need help with finding sources, searching databases, formatting citations, or deciding on a paper topic? The NCC Librarians are here for you.

Both the Mack Library (Bethlehem) and ESSA Library (Pocono) are open if you'd like to visit in person, or you can chat online with a Librarian no matter where you are! Go to the Library's home page and click on the orange "Ask the Librarian" tab to start chatting.

To find out when we're open, take a look at the Library's hours.

For more ways to reach us, and answers to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), click here. You can also send an e-mail question to askthelibrarian@northampton.edu, or set up a private appointment with a Librarian by using the "Book A Librarian" request form.

We look forward to hearing from you!

NEW books in the NCC Library collection!

Digital Tools for Learning, Creating & Thinking: Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Early Childhood Educators by Fantozzi, Victoria.
Call Number: LB 1139.35 .C64 F36 2022 Print -- ECE Collection

ISBN: 9781952331046

Publication Date: 2022

Children are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support children's learning. Readers will learn how to use technologies in ways that build on, not detract from, the learning children gain through play; introduce technologies using a gradual release of responsibility model; foster children's storytelling, reflection, early coding skills, and more; use technologies to enrich your partnerships with families and invite them into the classroom community; and work with colleagues to develop a digital culture that supports the program's goals.
Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives & Where We Go Now by Kamenetz, Anya.
Call Number: LC 191.4 .K36 2022 Print

ISBN: 9781541700987

Publication Date: 2022

This book shows how the last true social safety net -- the public school system -- was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. About 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at finding basics like eye exams, safe housing, mental health counseling, or simply a caring adult. Despite being flawed, inequitable, underfunded, and segregated, they remain the most important engine of social mobility and the crucible of our democracy. The cost of closing our schools for so long during the COVID-19 pandemic -- a decision made with good intentions -- has not yet been fully reckoned with, and author Anya Kamenetz shows that the roots of our crisis run far deeper than COVID.
Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers & Two-Year-Olds by Sorrels, Barbara.
Call Number: LB 3430 .S558 2022 Print

ISBN: 9780876599181

Publication Date: 2022

This book will help you to immerse children who experience a rough start in life in the highest quality of care. Maltreatment during the first three years of life is of utmost concern. Not only are the numbers of harmed infants and toddlers staggering, maltreatment during this vulnerable period alters children's development in such a way that it robs them of reaching their full human potential. As an infant-toddler child-care provider, you are a "first responder" to this national crisis, playing a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You can be a gateway to healing.