I chose the following list of facets, from broadest to most narrow: school library, school library media center, curriculum, instruction. Here are the list of results retrieved:
School library: 141904
School library + school library media center: 468
School library + school library media center + curriculum: 37
School library + school library media center + curriculum + instruction: 6
The most pertinent article retrieved from the list of 37 results was "Creating Partnerships" by Pamela Chesky and Martha Elaine Meyer, published in Knowledge Quest in 2004. This article struck me because it involves librarian education programs and the need to train school librarians to collaborate.
Reflection on Successive Fractions: Getting accustomed to this search took a bit of time, but in the end the results were manageable. On the final page of results, only one article seemed to be pertinent, but it dated from 1983. Therefore, I returned to the third set of results to find my hit for this search strategy. With practice, especially at attempting to think like a database and determine which is general and which is specific, searching with Successive Fractions could be an excellent mechanism for trimming unwanted results quickly. This time around, I did not use search limiters. (The search facets from general to specific accomplished the limiting themselves.) If I had done so earlier in the search, I probably could have retrieved a more relevant list of results. The list after the third facet still had many unwanted items. On the positive side, with only 37 results, it was easy to assess them quickly.
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