Competency 6: Search 4 Pearl Growing Strategy in Book in Print

Pearl Growing Strategy

database: Books in Print

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?

Pearl:
Harker, Christa et al. (2008) Library Research with Emergent Readers: Meeting Standards through Collaboration. United States: Linworth Publishing, Incorporated.

The following subject terms describe the query.

Bowker Subjects:
LIBRARY ORIENTATION
RESEARCH
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
LIBRARIANS
EDUCATION_UNITED STATES
ACTIVITY PROGRAMS IN EDUCATION
LITERACY

General Subjects (BISAC):
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Library Skills
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / School Media
EDUCATION / General
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
REFERENCE / Research

I am going to use RESEARCH, and SCHOOL LIBRARIES from the Boweker subjects.

search statement 1
su=(research) AND (school libraries)
results: 10 records

Citations:
Carlson, Chris (2009). Guiding Students into Information Literacy: Strategies for Teachers and Teacher-Librarians. United States: Scarecrow Press Incorporated

Howard, J. and Eckhardt S. (2005) Action Research: A Guide for Library Media Specialists. United States: Linworth Publishing Incorporated.

Reflections:
WOW!. I like this strategy. All 10 records fit the query. I realize that this will not happen this easily on all queries and on other databases, but it sure made it a whole lot easier to find subject terms from a known item. This is a great strategy to use when there is a known item to use as the "pearl" and grow the search from there.