We welcome you to the Instructional Materials Laboratory (IML), located in 136 Doudna Hall. Our friendly staff is anxious to serve you by answering reference questions, assisting with research, or helping you search our electronic resources. Our services, collections, and previewing equipment are available to meet the needs of UW-Platteville students, faculty and staff, and community members. Our generous hours are the same as the Karrmann Library.
The IML is a curriculum library designed to support the School of Education at UW-Platteville by making readily available for inspection, evaluation, and utilization educational materials of the highest quality produced for use with children from Pre K-Twelfth grade. The IML also provides patrons with selective materials relating to the teaching profession; however, materials about educational research, theory, and/or history are located in the Karrmann Library's General Collection.
All IML materials circulate, except magazines, reference resources, and selected tests. Materials are checked out at the IML Service Desk. Items may be returned to the IML or to the main book drop at the Karrmann Library when the IML is closed. Area residents need to obtain a special borrower's card, available in the IML or at the Karrmann Library's main floor Circulation Desk, in order to check out materials.
Materials put on reserve by instructors may be checked out for use in the IML for two hours. Reserve materials are available at the IML Service Desk and can be searched for in the Library Catalog.
The IML provides two computers for accessing all the library's cataloged collections plus full text journals, indexes, and the Internet. It is possible to search just the IML collections by clicking on the LIMITS button.
The IML offers six networked computers (three Gateway and three Power Macintosh). There are also two computers that offer CD-ROM previewing for those CD-ROM's located in the IML. The pretest for the PPST, Learning Plus, is located on the Gateway CD-ROM computer. The networked computers print to a laser printer.
For all the different formats of audiovisual materials housed in the IML, there is previewing equipment available. There are also computer work stations available for previewing any CD-ROM found in the IML.
Spring 2005 Student Weekly Schedule
Regina Pauly IML Coordinator and Reference Librarian - 140J Doudna, 608-342-1099
Lori Wedig, IML Assistant - 136 Doudna, 608-342-1757