I, too, have noticed that some students are getting frustrated when they
have to keep trying different keywords - I tell them it is like being a
detective, they have to keep gathering clues. However, I also noticed
that some who have found some interesting books have been coming to me
and telling me about it- and I immediately go to the material record and
add something to the notes field about the subject. It really has
helped. I am seriously considering looking at the index and table of
contents to see if I should add more to the notes.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus OH
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
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[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Hiebert
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:18 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: CATALOGUING: Your thoughts about adding lots of keywords to a
record
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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