Centers > Instructional Materials Center

Hours 7:30 -5:00 Monday - Thursday Location Maxim Doucet Hall Room 101 Phone 337-482-6355 Director Mrs. Dorothy Grimsley EMail dlg4619@louisiana.edu

The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) serves students and faculty from the University by providing materials to be used in classroom instruction on the elementary and secondary levels. The IMC provides an extensive variety of instructional materials for examination, evaluation, and utilization. There are currently 4 computers available for students and faculty for word processing and Internet access. It also serves as a copy center for the faculty and staff.

Collections
Textbook collection: Sampling of textbooks in all K-12 subject matter areas, state curriculum guides, and reserve materials which include readings required by the College of Education faculty.

Juvenile Collection: We are home for the University's collection of children's and young adult books. There are approximately 6,700 titles in this collection.

Professional Collection: The Instructional Materials Center has books on a wide variety of subjects such as: history of education, educational psychology, instructional activities, or current issues in education.

Reference Collection: The Instructional Materials Center has several professional sources relating to book and non-book materials collections, classification, cataloging, and bibliographic aids in support of the library science curriculum.

Journal Collection: The Instructional Materials Center subscribes to approximately twenty professional journals, five juvenile journals, and five magazines of a general nature.

Audiovisual Collection: This center offers items for various subject areas, everything is represented from children's literature to science. Included in this collection are kits, games, filmstrips, videos, etc, that can be used for educational purposes. Audiovisual equipment includes projectors, video cameras, VCRs, and monitors.