Competency 6 - Project MUSE Specific Facet First Strategy

For this database, I began searching in all fields w/text.

Facet 1: Collection Development 21,606 hits
Facet 2: School 48,240 hits
Facet 3: library 54,648

So I started with ((collection development) AND (school)) in all fields w/ text. I got 10,810 hits.
Next I added library.
((Collection and Development) AND (school) AND (library)) in all fields w/ text. I got 5,931 hits. This is still way too many hits and I noticed that there are many about colleges or universities, so I added NOT (college) or (university) or (high).
This removed very few document from the list because I still got 5,919 hits.
I guess Carol was right in the Power Point that this search strategy is best suited when you are searching highly unique terms. I think my terms are too broad. So, I decided to narrow down and search all fields except text.

Facet 1: collection development 103 hits
Facet 2: school 1,519 hits
Facet 3: library 1,418 hits

This time I started with ((collection development) AND (library)). I got 47 results.
Next I added school.
((collection AND development) AND (library) AND (school)) - 2 hits.
Well neither one was very helpful to me for a paper I would write on this topic, but I chose this article because it was interesting. It is about the history of school libraries in South Dakota.
I think for a different type of search I would like Project MUSE. I will continue to play with it to see its pros and cons.