I decided to do my search on collection development for elementary and/or middle schools. I chose this topic because I feel like I need to learn more about how to create a good library collection. First, I searched using WorldCat. I began with school librar* and collection development (keywords). This search yielded 1593 hits. Then, I added elementary or middle (keyword). This search yielded 231 hits, but a lot of them were about literacy, not necessarily librarianship. I then decided to search with everything the same, but only changing collection development to title. This yielded 21 hits, but many of them were from the 1980s. I didn't want to relive my childhood, so I tried again, this time with collection development back in keyword but narrowing the dates from 2006-2009. This yielded 31 hits, so I stopped there. Here is the record of a dissertation from a former TWU Ph.D student (available at North Texas University):
On to the ERIC search. I started with school librar* and collection development (keywords) just like with WorldCat. This yielded 702 hits. I narrowed again to school librar* as keyword and collection development as abstract and elementary or middle as abstract. This yielded 41 hits, so I decided to quit. Here is a record from this search:
Overall, I liked ERIC's search results better than WorldCat. There were many more useful resources and many more that were available at TWU. I also think it helps that you can search the abstract.
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