Since my interest area is on involving the school library (and librarian) more closely in teaching and learning, my overall Search Problem can be expressed as follows:
- School Library Involvement in Curriculum and Instruction
Component Facets:
- School Library
- Curriculum and Instruction
Terms for Each Facet:
- School library, K-12 library, school library media center, elementary, middle school and secondary school library
- Curriculum, instruction, instructional planning
The first thing I did was to eliminate "k-12 library" and reduce "elementary, middle school and secondary school library" from my terms above in order to eliminate elementary school libraries from consideration. I then added "secondary library" to the terms.
Next, since I wanted my terms to cover "librarians" in addition to "library" and "libraries," I truncated that term as "librar*". Similarly, I did the same for "instruction," turning it into "instruct*". To these, I added the Boolean operators AND and OR.
My search terms thus became: school libr* OR school libr* media center OR secondary school libr* AND curriculum OR instruction OR instruct* planning
At this point, I was ready to use the following search strategies: Building Block, Specific Facet First, Successive Fractions and Citation Pearl.
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