Successive Facets Strategy
database: WorldCat
query: "I am a first year elementary school librarian and I would like to learn how to teach elementary school students how to research information. What resources can I use that would help me teach research skills in an elementary school library?
facets from query:
facet 1: teach
facet 2: research skills
facet 3: elementary school library
synonyms for facets
facet 1: instruction, lessons, teaching
facet 2: research skills, information literacy, library skills
facet 3: school library media center, school libraries
Subject terms
facet 1: elementary school teaching, instruction
facet 2: library research, information retrieval
facet 3: school libraries, elementary school libraries, libraries and schools
subject terms search results
facet 1: instruction-303,534
elementary school teaching - 6,937
facet 2: library research -449
information retrieval - 13,046
facet 3: school libraries - 13,777
elementary school libraries - 1,040
libraries and schools - 874
I will combine the largets retrieval set of each facet.
su=(instruction) AND (school libraries)
results: 122 records
There were no relevant records to the query.
su=(instruction) AND (information retrieval)
results 646 records
su=(instruction) AND (information retrieval) AND (elementary school libraries)
results 1 record
Miller, P. (2003). Research skills. Fort Atkinson, Wis: UpstartBooks.
I am not satified with this search. There has to be more records in this database that pertain to the query. I am going to try another search.
su=(instruction) AND (information retrieval OR library research) AND (elementary school libraries)
results: 1 records
The same record I just cited. I am starting to get frustrated with this search. I realize that the successive facet strategy is to start with the broadest term and succesively add subject terms to narrow the results but it is not retrieving satifactory results. It is probably that the database is not suitable for this search query. I thought WorldCat would be a suitable database because it is a global catalog of library collections. I am going to try the building block strategy.
su=(instruction OR elementary school teaching) AND (library research OR information retrieval) AND (school libraries OR elementary school libraries OR (schools and libraries))
results: 31 records
Harker, C., & Putonti, D. (2008). Library research with emergent readers: Meeting standards through collaboration. Columbus, Ohio: Linworth Books
There was only a handful of records that pertained to the query. At least I was able to get one record using the successive facets strategy but I do not consider this a successful search.
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