Competency 6-Databases-LibLit-Successive Fractions

I was looking for more information on elementary school library budgets. I chose to use the LibLit database from the Texas Woman's University library system. I had the following results.

S1 will be School libraries = 2853 results

S1 and finance = 72 results = S2

S2 and budget* = 23 results



When I tried different ways of wording my search I began with budget instead of finance. I did not get the type of results I needed. I noticed that the database suggested finance. I reworked the search and started with finance instead of budget. This produced a more successful search. I then narrowed my result by using budget with right-truncation. This way I would receive results for budgets, budgeting or budgeted.



The following screen captures show my final search and results.

The process of finding results in this way was positive. I was able to take a set of results and gradually add components to get to my final search. This process would work well for middle and high school age students in conducting reasearch. The process is a little complicated for elementary aged students.