As a general reference guide to places that provide information and materials related to mental health in schools, our Center has compiled Where to Get Resource Materials to Address Barriers to Learning. There's also a list of publishers and distributors of books and other materials you might find useful, and a set of sample fact sheets. This 232 page resource will soon be available through our website. In our searches, we often begin with a quick look at the library's catalogue for the latest books providing overviews and resource aids. We also look at periodical indexes.
Many libraries have interlibrary loan and Internet connections.
And good Reference Desk Librarians are worth their weight in gold. We also find compendiums of best practices useful. Then, we check with the government's resource banks. They have a publication entitled Educational Programs That Work , the annual National Diffusion Network catalogue of exemplary educational programs. The catalogue includes current descriptions of most program described in previous editions as well as new programs approved for national dissemination since publication of the twentieth edition in 1994.