Sunday, November 8, 2009

Competency 6 - Pearl Growing Academic Search Complete

For my pearl growing strategy, I started with this citation:


This article was about how a school improved its collection and the effects it had on library usage and the checking out of materials. I used these subject terms for my pearl growing:

SS1 - DE(School libraries -- book selection) OR DE (School libraries -- collection development)

I received 70 hits, all of which were useful articles on collection development in a school library. If I were doing a research paper on a more specific aspect of collection development, I probably would add another descriptor to my search to narrow down further. I chose the record for a good article on how to select Spanish language or bilingual books for a school library if you aren't bilingual. While I can speak Spanish, I am not completely bilingual (yet). At my school, over half of the classes in each grade level are bilingual English/Spanish. Our library is filled with Spanish language books, but I'm not sure I would know which are the best titles to order. Here is the record:

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