My task was to research my blog topic, libraries and teens, through ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) with the following search strategies. I found my results interesting and thought I would share them on this blog.
I began with the Building Block search strategy and had a horrible time placing my parentheses correctly and the or's and and's in the proper spaces. I came up with no search results from this task.
I next used the search strategy Specific Facet First and found within ERIC many results for my three keywords of teens, avoid and library. Teens had 2,085 results, avoid had 6,334 results and library had 53,754 results. I chose to carry on to the next search strategy.
Successive Fractions began with my highest result keyword, library, onto which I added avoid, then teen*(to, I hope, ask for truncations of teen), resulting in one, yes only one, result. I took this result and reviewed its descriptor list.
Using the descriptor list, I followed the search strategy Citation Pearl Growing, or Snowballing, and chose two of the descriptors: Library role and Student Attitudes. These two descriptors combined resulted in 105 results, of which I found a helpful book at the eighth choice. There may be more in this listing, but I chose to stop at number eight and complete this task.
If I used these search strategies more often I know I would be faster at finding my desired result, but, since this is the first time I have attempted to search these ways, I feel thirty minutes falls into the "well done" category. I will improve!
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