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Education: Initial Licensure

TEL databases are available to all Tennessee public and private educational institutions.

Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)  https://tntel.info/

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) collection of databases and resources is available to all Tennessee public and private educational institutions. This includes TN K-12 schools throughout the state.

As future educators it is vital you know you have this incredible resource in your school. Your school librarian can assist with training and guidance as needed. Many of these databases are Gale products and part of the Waggoner Library A-Z Database collection.

 

Selected TEL databases especially useful to educators from TEL are linked below

Topic Finder

A cool interactive visual search tool in TEL/GALE databases is the Topic Finder. This tool takes the titles, subjects, and approximately the first 100 words from a subset of your top results and feeds them into an algorithm. Keywords shown in the graphics are those found most often in the text with your search term. Click the terms to narrow. Articles show on the right. Below is the result of searching the term schools in Information Science & Library Issues database. Give it a try!