The department offers the following degrees: Ph.D., D.Ed., M.A. and M.Ed.

Doctoral students may choose concentrations in Counselor Education, and Educational Administration. Masters students may also concentrate in these two areas as well as Educational Evaluation.

In addition to the support for the specific degree programs of the ELC&F Department, the collection also serves as a resource for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in other disciplines. Related departments include Curriculum & Instruction, Human Performance & Health Promotion, Special Education, and Psychology.

Languages
The language of acquisition is English.

Chronological Guidelines
The primary focus of the collection is on contemporary research. However, some historical materials are acquired in the areas of counseling theory, and the philosophical, psychological, political, socio-cultural, and historical foundations of American education.

Geographical Guidelines
The emphasis of the collection is on the United States.

Treatment of Subject
A wide variety of materials is collected in counselor education, educational administration, and educational foundations and research. These include publications on the history and philosophy of American education and higher education and theories of educational administration. Some materials are also acquired on the political, economic, legal, and business aspects of and the role of government in public schools and higher education. Emphasis should be placed on materials dealing with statistical methods and computer applications in educational administration and research.

Materials dealing with the social aspects of education, in particular school community relationships, human services, substance abuse, crisis intervention, and family counseling are selectively acquired. Also of interest are publications dealing with the management or administration of guidance services, higher education, school personnel, and in particular the principalship and leader behavior.

The collection should also include materials on the psychological foundations of education--with an emphasis on measurement and evaluation. Textbooks at the advanced level and materials are acquired on a selective basis.

Types of Material
Monographs and serial publications form the basis for acquisitions. Reference materials, including bibliographies, handbooks, directories, encyclopedias, abstracts, and indexes are acquired. Theses and dissertations from other institutions are not acquired. Education related videos and books with accompanying material in either video or electronic format are selectively acquired.

Publications of U.S. government agencies are acquired through the U.S. Federal Depository Program. Microforms especially those emanating from the Educational Resources Information Service (ERIC) are also acquired. Serial backfiles and subscriptions and education related newspapers are also considered for purchase in microform.

Proceedings and publications of various education related organizations and societies are selectively acquired. Standardized tests are generally not acquired although materials reviewing them usually are considered for purchase.

Date of Publication
Current materials are most important. Emphasis is on materials published within the past five years. Retrospective materials may be selectively collected to support the foundations courses.

Other Resources
The library's Multimedia Collection houses a major resource for ELC&F, namely the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) collection. This is a complete set which is updated monthly of nearly everything indexed in Resources in Education and includes more than 470,000 research reports, bibliographies, curriculum guides, professional papers, conference proceedings, theses, etc. in the field of education. One can also link to the full text of these documents back to 1996 by using the EBSCO version of the ERIC database. Multimedia also houses a number of backfiles of education related periodicals and newspapers.

The Government Documents section of the library is also a resource for most publications from the U.S. Dept. of Education. The library's law collections are also a resource for users interested in the legal aspects of education. The Special Collections Dept. houses a large collection of materials from the Orleans Parish School Board.