An International Research & Scholars Library for Learning Assistance Program Directors, Developmental Education Practitioners, Graduate Students, and Research Scholars was a long time dream of Frank Christ, co-founder and content editor for LSCHE. It had been offered to several major learning assistance institutions and has just recently been created as a resource library through Texas State University, San Marcos.
The library is called the Frank and Alice Christ Memorial Research and Scholars Library. It is being created based on a rationale that it is and always has been a critical problem for learning assistance administrators, practitioners, research scholars, and graduate students to locate and use appropriate information and relevant data to develop or improve their learning assistance programs and services. Such a library needs to be centrally located geographically with its materials both physically accessible for long or short term browsing and duplication with selected materials accessible through interlibrary loan and on the Internet through LSCHE. This need to have a central repository of interdisciplinary learning assistance information and research materials can be met by the proposed library’s international collections of books, monographs, proceedings, periodicals, dissertations, theses, audio and video presentations, syllabi, institutional program materials, textbooks, audiovisual, and computer materials in learning assistance program areas of study skills, reading, ESL, writing, mathematics, critical thinking, tutoring, and supplemental instruction.
In addition to the library’s physical collection, an online component of the library will feature LINDEX, a unique learning assistance taxonomic database as well as a searchable gray literature collection of individual learning support center materials such as mission statements, staff descriptions, publicity materials, program descriptions, syllabi for learning skills courses, evaluations, and annual reports.
Although much of the collection is being acquired through donations from active and retired learning assistance//developmental professionals and publishers, there are significant gaps in the collection. Very shortly, a list of materials that are needed to fill out the collection will be posted. Donors will be recognized through a donor list displayed at the library, as well as on this web site, a specially designed bookplate acknowledging each book donation, and a confirmation “thank you” letter for the donated materials.
For details regarding any donations that you would care to make, email Dr. Russ Hodges.
Names of current donors to the library are listed below. As more donations are received, donor names will be added to this list.
Individual Donors
- Christ, Frank L: Emeritus, CSU Long Beach, CA and Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona
- Coda-Messerle, Margaret: CSU Dominguez Hills, CA
- Eberly, Charles G.: Eastern Illinois University, IL
- Lissner, L. Scott: Longwood Community College, VA
- Maxwell, Martha: Emerita, UC Berkeley, CA
- O’Grady Ednie, Maureen: Suffolk County Community College, NY
- Schmidt, George R.: CSU Long Beach, CA
- Wark, David: Emeritus, University of Minnesota, MN
Corporate & Professional Association Donors- ACTLA: Association of Colleges for Tutoring and Learning Assistance
- NYCLSA: New York College Learning Skills Association
Publisher Donors- Jossey-Bass: Palo Alto, CA
