Before beginning my search, I thought about the various search facets of library type and area of interest.
Facet 1: elementary school library
Facet 2: reading or literacy
Facet 3: programs
Of the three facets, I believe that Facet 1: elementary school library is the most specific facet, so I will search ERIC using that search query term first. I plugged in facet 1, but I received 5,567 results (see Figure 1.1). Since the results are numerous and many do not address literacy promotion in conjunction with school libraries, I added Facet 2 to my search (see Figure 1.2). Adding facet 2 reduced my results to 1,734 (see Figure 1.3). This is better than the previous results, but it is still too large of a list, so I am going to refine my results with limiters. I chose the following limiters:
Year: 2007-2009
Language Phrase: English
Full Text: selected yes
Rank by: selected “relevance”
Doing this produced no results. Therefore, I removed all my limiters except for “Full Text” and my new results list pulled up 705 records (see Figure 1.4). I was not happy with the results, so I chose to refine my search by selecting a Subject Heading to limit my results (see Figure 1.5). This time, my search yielded only 330 results (see Figure 1.6). The record that I found that interested me was “Improving School Libraries and Independent Reading: 1997-2002 Impact Evaluation of the K-12 School Library Printed Materials Grant” (see Figure 1.7).
Reflection:
This search strategy took me a long time to find decent results. I was continuously having to revise my search in order to get manageable results and a relevant hit. This is not my first choice for a search strategy.
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