Hello All,
As I watch students (I'm in a high school of 500, grades 8 to 12) search my
catalogue I see that their expectations have been established by Google:
when they do a keyword search for 'marijuana' they expect to find every
book with information about marijuana; of course, that is not what happens;
they find only the books with the word 'marijuana' entered somewhere in the
record. I then tell them they need to broaden their search -- "try 'drugs'
or 'drug abuse'" -- and many more hits appear.
There is no chance I am going to effectively teach even a small minority of
our students how to 'broaden the search' (my half-time librarian status is
just one reason), so I'm thinking that my catalogue has to be more
Google-like. To that end I am considering adding many more keywords to the
book records. My first thought is to select keywords from the table of
contents of a book and list them in the 'note' field of the book record.
I would appreciate your opinions about all this, and I would especially
like to hear from anyone who is already doing this.
Thanks for listening.
Regards,
Robert
Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada
www.gsslibrary.net
Fax: 250 344 7116
library@gsslibrary.net
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