The College of Education Instructional Materials Center (IMC) not only serves as the state repository for curricular materials currently under adoption in the State of Idaho, the Center also houses varied collections of other materials including teaching manipulative, video and audiotapes, and computer software, theses and dissertations, and other professional materials. These collections are maintained to serve students and faculty in the College of Education, the entire campus community as well as area in-service educators. The IMC collections are detailed below.
Open Hours & Contact
The IMC is open Monday - Friday: 10:00 a.m. ~ 2:00 p.m. and is closed on holidays.
To contact us, you can call the Circulation Desk at 282-4757 or e-mail: imc@isu.edu.
State Adopted Textbooks
The IMC textbook collection includes P-12 textbooks in varied subject areas ranging from Language Arts to Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, Social Science, PE, as well as vocational materials. Student edition, teacher edition, as well as teacher resources are included in this collection. All of the textbook collection circulates for two weeks.
Reference Collection
The IMC has a small reference collection: Academic American Encyclopedia, Compton's Precyclopedia, Children's Britannica, The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places, Childcraft, The World Book Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, and dictionaries for all ages including subjects from writing to law. These reference materials do not circulate without permission.
Award Book Collection
The IMC Award Book collection consists of Caldecott and Newbery winners 1930s to 2001. This small collection circulates for two weeks.
Professional Literature
In addition to instructional materials, master theses and doctoral dissertations from master and doctoral programs in the College of Education are housed in the IMC. The Center also contains other professional materials such as Fastbacks from series 1 to 457 and Accomplished Teaching with videotapes.
Manipulatives and Multimedia
The manipulative collection is made up of a variety of hands-on instructional materials which coincide with textbooks. These manipulatives are displayed in the Manipulative room and circulate for two weeks. Software (CD-ROM or diskette), Laser video discs, and audiotapes in various subject areas from educational games to practice exercises are also housed in the IMC. Some of them do not circulate. A media preview room equipped with a computer, a color TV with video cassette recorder, and VHS is available in the IMC for students to examine and preview the visual materials.
Classfication and Call Number
Because of the special nature of the collections, in particular, the textbook collection, the IMC uses Dewey Decimal numbers, publishers, grade levels, publication year, and reading levels are also used for the system of call numbers. The following diagram is a typical example of call numbers used for textbook collection. We hope the diagram will help you understand IMC call numbers, but please feel free to ask for help in finding materials.
