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Resource for Resource for Librarians and Librarians and
Teachers of ESOL; Teachers of ESOL;
Resource for Resource for Librarians and Librarians and
Teachers of ESOL; Teachers of ESOL;
English as a Second Language English as a Second Language Lending LibraryLending Library
About the Collection…• Collection organized in 1995• Owned by Kansas State Department of
Education• Funding provided in part by the U.S.
Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs, Title VII grant
• Housed at William Allen White Library, Emporia State University
About the Collection…• Purpose of the collection
– Provide materials for teaching English to speakers of other languages
– Provides resources for bilingual, multi-cultural, and migrant education
About the Collection…• Contains over 3,836 ESOL/BE titles
including:– Textbooks & teachers’ editions– Bi-lingual books– Children’s fiction– Games– Audio & video tapes in English and over 30
languages– Curriculum development resources
ESOL Lending Library
ESOL Lending Library
Languages Represented
• Albanian (4)• Amharic (2)• Arabic (22)• Bengali (22)• Chinese (70)• French (23)• German (17)• Hebrew (2)• Hmong (19)• Italian (2)• Japanese (25)• Khmer (8)• Korean (17)• Lao (4)
• Panjabi (13)• Persian (6)• Portuguese (4)• Russian (8)• Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) (5)• Serbo-Croation (Roman) (5)• Spanish (335)• Tagalog (3)• Tamil (3)• Thai (5)• Turkish (5)• Urdu (26)• Vietnamese (53)
How to find them…• Search the library catalog at
Emporia State University• http://whitelib.emporia.edu/
Select ‘Advanced Search’
Select ‘Subject’ field and enter language
Select ESOL Collection from the ‘Collection Location’
Search Results
Popular Searches• Bilingual books (subject)• Dictionaries (subject)• Games (subject)• Puzzles (keyword)
Now what?• Interlibrary loan request• Check them out if enrolled at
– Kansas Regents Colleges– Flint Hills Technical College
• Or obtain a – ESU Kansas Resident Card
What do you think?• Is this a valuable resource?• Do you anticipate using it, or have
you already used it?
Contact• Beth Hanschu, ESU ESOL Collection
Management– 620-341-5055– [email protected]
• Phyllis Farrar, KS Dept. of Ed World Languages and English as a Second Language Program Consultant– 785-296-1891– [email protected]
