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Hello! I'm Megan Zara, your HEALOS Liaison Librarian and OER Librarian. As someone who spent 10 years in the K-12 trenches—teaching middle school English, developing curriculum, and supporting technology integration across Frisco and Fort Worth ISDs—I understand the real-world challenges and opportunities in education.

My background as a Digital Learning Specialist means I've helped countless teachers and administrators implement meaningful technology solutions in their classrooms and schools. With a master's in Literacy and Learning and experience teaching disciplinary literacy to pre-service teachers at Texas Woman's University, I bring both practical experience and academic understanding to my role.

I'm here to support all aspects of your academic work—from research consultations and literature reviews to finding course materials and exploring open education resources. Whether you're conducting dissertation research, developing course content, exploring adult learning theories, or advancing educational leadership practices, I'm here to help you succeed.

Behind every resource is a person (me!) ready to chat about education, research strategies, or innovative teaching practices. Drop by my office, schedule a consultation, or send me an email anytime.

UTA Library Resources Spring 2025 by Megan Zara

Chronicle of Higher Education
The leading source of news and trends, legislation, meetings and job listings for college and university faculty and administrators
The web site is updated daily with the latest news in academe. It also includes The Chronicle Review and the Almanac of Higher Education. The archive of back issues goes back to September 1989.
Education Abstracts
Provides citations for articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks dealing with educational topics
Provides citations for articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere dealing with educational topics. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are indexed.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Contains more than 190,000 bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Educational Administration Abstracts contains more than 190,000 bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Education Database (ProQuest)
Includes over 1,020 top educational publications, including more than 640 of the titles in full text. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database offers complete text and images from journals such as: Childhood Education, College Teaching, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Athletic Training, and Educational Theory.
PsycINFO
This database is devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
The American Psychological Association's abstracts of scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in the behavioral sciences and mental health. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Indexing and abstracting of articles from nearly 10,000 journals, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Links to full text in the PsycARTICLES database as well as other full-text EBSCOhost databases.
Child Care & Early Education Research Connection
A multidisciplinary collection of resources for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in child care and early education
A multidisciplinary collection of resources for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in child care and early education. Includes citations and some full text for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, fact sheets and briefs, grey literature, instruments, and government documents. In addition, Research Connections offers data and statistics for download and analysis, and tools for quick online analysis of data.

Higher education in the United States
by James J.F. Forest and Kevin Kinser
Publication Date: 2002
Evidence-Based Teaching for Higher Education by Beth M. Schwartz (Editor); Regan A. R. Gurung (Editor)
Call Number: LB2331 .E936 2012
ISBN: 9781433811722
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
Advances in Understanding Advocacy and Improving Policy Practice Education by Richard Hoefer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138651258
Publication Date: 2016-07-04
A perennial issue in social work is the lack of clear evidence showing how to be a successful advocate and how to create enthusiasm among students for policy practice. Researchers are now applying theory to understand better the topics of effective social work advocacy and policy practice. The results of testing conceptual models with carefully gathered evidence are beneficial, helping us to advance our knowledge more quickly than merely collecting descriptions of case studies that remain unintegrated into a larger context. Improvements in understanding how to conduct effective advocacy emerge, helping practitioners to be more successful in their advocacy efforts. Similarly, bringing evidence and data to teaching methods improves confidence in their applicability to more than one course or institution. Readers of this book will discover how to be more effective policy practitioners as well as more engaging instructors by focusing on theories and evidence which demonstrate successful advocacy and teaching. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Policy Practice.
Curriculum and the teacher : 35 years of the Cambridge journal of education by Nigel Norris
Call Number: LB2806.15 .C6926 2008
Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education by Marie Eaton (Editor); Holly J. Hughes (Editor); Jean MacGregor (Editor)
ISBN: 9781315641249
Publication Date: 2016-10-14
How do we foster in college students the cognitive complexity, ethical development, and personal resolve that are required for living in this "sustainability century"? Tackling these complex and highly interdependent problems requires nuanced interdisciplinary understandings, collective endeavors, systemic solutions, and profound cultural shifts. Contributors in this book present both a rationale as well as a theoretical framework for incorporating reflective and contemplative pedagogies to help students pause, deepen their awareness, think more carefully, and work with complexity in sustainability-focused courses. Also offering a variety of relevant, timely resources for faculty to use in their classrooms, Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education serves as a key asset to the efforts of educators to enhance students' capacities for long-term engagement and resilience in a future where sustainability is vital.
Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice by Ivory, C. J; Pashia, Angela Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice takes a multidisciplinary approach and is filled with examples of the ways OER and open pedagogy can be used to support social justice in education. In five sections, it covers a wide range of topics from theoretical critiques to multidisciplinary examples of OER development in practice to examinations of institutional support for OER development.
ISBN: 9780838936771
Publication Date: 2022
An educational leader's guide to curriculum mapping : creating and sustaining collaborative cultures by Janet A. Hale, Richard F. Dunlap, Jr.
Call Number: LB2806.15 .H346 2010