Competency #5A: Building Block Search Strategy

For this search using the building block strategy I searched for information literacy in the classroom using Library Lit in Wilson Web.

My first search looked like this:

S1 ( library or information literacy or research)
and
S2 (grammar school or elementary school or primary school)
and
S3 (curricul* or lessons or activities)

Search Results:

131 Records found for (library or information literacy or research) Keyword AND (curricul* or lessons or activities) Keyword AND (grammar school or elementary school or primary school) Keyword
In Library Lit & Inf Full Text

Most of these hits were good but some topics were on activities which just happened to be conducted in the library. To refine this I added skills to library: library skills.

S1 ( library skills or information literacy or research)
and
S2 (grammar school or elementary school or primary school)
and
S3 (curricul* or lessons or activities)

Search Results:

26 Records found for (library skills or information literacy or research) Keyword AND (curricul* or lessons or activities) Keyword AND (grammar school or elementary school or primary school) Keyword

In Library Lit & Inf Full Text

This was more specific but I noticed that some articles included high school information which was not what I was looking for so I refined using the not term

S1 ( library skills or information literacy or research)
and
S2 (elementary school not high school)
and
S3 (curricul* or lessons or activities)

Search Results:

11 Records found for (library skills or information literacy or research) Keyword AND (curricul* or lessons or activities) Keyword AND (elementary school not high school) Keyword
In Library Lit & Inf Full Text

My search has now led me to 11 articles but the articles are not meeting my needs as I would like. I do not believe that searching using keywords is working to my advantage. I changed the keyword tab to smart search. I believe the hits I got were much more useful.

Search Results:

35 Records found for (library skills or information literacy or research) Smart Search AND (elementary school not high school) Smart Search AND (curriculum or lessons or activities) Smart Search
In Library Lit & Inf Full Text

The search was successful. The topic took some limiting but I found Library Lit easy to navigate. The results gave me good article choices which were focused on information literacy in the elementary school media center.

My first hit is:

Title:
Can One Person Really Make a Difference?
Personal Author:
Wanyo, Carol
Journal Name:
School Library Media Activities Monthly
Source:
School Library Media Activities Monthly v. 24 no. 4 (December 2007) p. 47-9
Publication Year:
2007
Abstract:
When the writer, a proven and experienced classroom teacher, accepted a position as a K-8 library media specialist for two elementary/middle schools, she set out to change the district's inadequate library program. She enrolled in Mansfield University's online master's degree program in School Library and Information Technologies; began arming herself with research, data, and best practices, and began sharing this information with administration, school board members, and the other library media specialists; attended the Library Committee monthly meetings consisting of appointed school board members; began to implement what she could from her Mansfield course work; invited board of education members and administrators to visit the library media center; and became an active political advocate for library media centers.
Subject(s):
Public relations of libraries/Pennsylvania; Public relations of libraries/School libraries
Physical Description:
Illustration
ISSN:
0889-9371
Language of Document:
English
Document Type:
Feature Article
Database:
Education; Library & Information Science
Accession Number:
200733500762015
Persistent URL:
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